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It's been around for a couple of years and is called Freefall! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freefall!/id416974946?ls=1&mt=8 But I hear they had to say jump instead of throw as apple originally rejected it! It even has a leaderboard.

Itunes gave Apple a financial incentive for DRM and lock in. Apple monopolized the mp3 market ...

http://www.apple.com/ca/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

Seriously?

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pcie+ssd

Apple doesn't actually donate much to politicians at all, and their lobbying budget is exceptionally small for a company of their size, so I doubt that's the reason.

They don't need money. They have connections. Apple has Al Gore on their board of directors.

My guess is that this is actually for the stated reason. Whether it's a good reason or not is another question, but I don't think they're covering up a hidden motive here. Basically, the iPhone 2 and 4 sell a lot in the U.S., and banning them would disrupt the U.S. economy to some extent, so they chose not to.

Moral of the story. Intellectual property can only be enforced in the USA if your company has connections. Samsung violates Apple patents? 1 Beeeeelion dollar fine. Apple violates Samsung patents? Presidential pardon.

If I were Samsung, I'd stop selling components to Apple until they decided to pay their licensing fees. That would put a stop to iPhone4 and iPad2 just as fast as an injuction. That would put a dent in new Apple products too.

The statute authorizing the ITC pretty explicitly contemplated that possibility, which is why it has an opt-out clause for the president to cancel ITC orders if he determines they would be too disruptive to the economy.

'too disruptive to the economy'? Read: Enforce laws only on companies full of dirty slant eyes who we don't like here in 'murica.

PBS for iPad is 4.5 stars, based on 24,231 ratings.

Sure you can. Unless you mean you just can't afford it?

The Macbook Pro is the current example, it has not changed in specs or price point in close to three years.

This is incorrect. The last non-Retina MacBook Pro came out in June 2012, and the average time between releases is 267 days.

Last time you bought your PC was the clockspeed of the GPU listed in the specs sheet? Does this MacBook Air page say the GPU clockspeed? Nope. Does this Apple iPhone page say anything about the GPU clockspeed? Zilch. Nada. If the Samsung Galaxy S4 specs say Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SOC then you go to Samsung Electronics, the manufacturer of the SOC, and see the spec sheet or brochure. Which is what I did.

Last time you bought your PC was the clockspeed of the GPU listed in the specs sheet? Does this MacBook Air page say the GPU clockspeed? Nope. Does this Apple iPhone page say anything about the GPU clockspeed? Zilch. Nada. If the Samsung Galaxy S4 specs say Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SOC then you go to Samsung Electronics, the manufacturer of the SOC, and see the spec sheet or brochure. Which is what I did.

One interesting cross-domain tagging system, which I use extensively, is Fluidinfo. It allows users to attach tags, which can have typed values, to arbitrary objects identified by any unicode string (or by a UUID). There's a query language that lets you find things based on your own tags and, subject to permissions, other people's tags. It was discussed previously on /., but now has more interesting public data in it, such as most of the books from the British Library's catalogue, e.g. Animal Farm and that old /. favourite Pride & Prejudice.

Another recent development that could be significant for tagging is the announcement by Apple that OS X Mavericks will have more extensive support for tags on files both in the OS and in iCloud. Since tags look like being the only way Apple will offer to organize files in iCloud, it is possible these will catch on in a big way, and this could lead to a broader interest in tagging as a general alternative/addition to hierarchical organization.

This is the third story in a week, of Apple being an abusive employer, whether you are a top engineer, overworked factory worker, or minimum wage shop assistant. colour me surprised that the Apple treat profits over people.

The bottom line is Apples profits are down! again, its margins are shrinking, its sales are plummeting, its market share is down, its technical edge none existent are they really not seeing that moving manufacturing abroad, becoming a purely (arrogant with out substance) design(sic) company, paying literally zero tax.

Ironically I noticed in Harris Poll EquiTrend has Apple as coming out top for Brand of the Year distinctions in three categories - Computer, Tablet and Mobile Phone. All I could think is how irreparably damaged Apples old Techno Hippy Brand has been, and how actual Apples sales numbers reflect that.

This is Apples sales numbers http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf and hoe they comparing at IDC (its only smartophones but Apple is becoming a one product company..the iphone) http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24239313/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24239313 The numbers speak for themselves.

Apple is not newsworthy

But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better"

Apple ARE better.
http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/accountability.html [apple.com]

If Apple is that better they would STOP letting their contractor abusing the workers a long time ago

Back in 2010-2011, another contractor, Wintek, caused deaths and injuries to several of its workers due to n-hexane exposure - including one engineer who dropped dead while working

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/technology/23apple.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Anyone can come up with any kind of policy, and what Apple is doing is merely giving lip service to their "policy"

Especially after the death and injuries that had occurred in Wintek last time, Apple ought to have wised up and ensure that their so-called "policy" be strictly followed

It would be useless due to its bloated Nokia skin (requiring a quad core CPU to run smoothly) plus all the god awful Nokia apps.

Running android on a single core phone. Smooth as silk. Maybe you mean iOS; These are apple customers complaining about lag https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4317962?start=30&tstart=0 . The bottom line is quad-core means you can run more powerful programs in android.

But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better".

Apple ARE better.
http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/accountability.html

Capitalism is a dirty word and only spells misery. Ill buy Apple the day where their products are US made and workers have decent conditions.

Enjoy your new MacPro then.

Not only does iOS have voice control and dictation in Cantonese, but Siri even speaks Cantonese. There's also the fact that iOS supports the traditional Chinese character set, which is used by Cantonese, as well as the extra characters that are specific to Cantonese.

Having support for something does not automatically mean it works.

Apple's Asian language support sucks (so does Google's, but fortunately manufacturers dont have to rely on Google and have even added language support to AOSP). Iphone users I know in Thailand and Malaysia have to use their phones in English due to the fact that Thai and Bahasa Malay languages are so broken they are almost unusable, auto-correct in texts has to be turned off. All of these users have these phones because they think they are cool, (most had the bought for them by western boyfriends, if they bought the phones themselves they would have gone with something that had decent language support). As I said, stock Google Asian language support sucked in the beginning, but it was Asian manufacturers who put in better language support back to the AOSP.

Not only does iOS have voice control and dictation in Cantonese, but Siri even speaks Cantonese. There's also the fact that iOS supports the traditional Chinese character set, which is used by Cantonese, as well as the extra characters that are specific to Cantonese.

Having support for something does not automatically mean it works.

Apple's Asian language support sucks (so does Google's, but fortunately manufacturers dont have to rely on Google and have even added language support to AOSP). Iphone users I know in Thailand and Malaysia have to use their phones in English due to the fact that Thai and Bahasa Malay languages are so broken they are almost unusable, auto-correct in texts has to be turned off. All of these users have these phones because they think they are cool, (most had the bought for them by western boyfriends, if they bought the phones themselves they would have gone with something that had decent language support). As I said, stock Google Asian language support sucked in the beginning, but it was Asian manufacturers who put in better language support back to the AOSP.

$9.99 if you have iPad, or you can get Express for free on iOS or Android.

The best you can do is a kludgy app where you have to copy and paste the result (see https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canton-guang-dong-pin-yin/id385519764?mt=8 [apple.com]).

This is better, much better.

Not only does iOS have voice control and dictation in Cantonese, but Siri even speaks Cantonese. There's also the fact that iOS supports the traditional Chinese character set, which is used by Cantonese, as well as the extra characters that are specific to Cantonese. Did it ever occur to you to ask why that app you linked hasn't been updated for three years now? If you look back, you'll find that that Apple expanded its iOS efforts to include China around that time, along with adding input support for various forms of Chinese in iOS 4.

But hey, dinging them using information that hasn't been true for about three years is a favorite pastime of many a nerd, so please, continue.

Not only does iOS have voice control and dictation in Cantonese, but Siri even speaks Cantonese. There's also the fact that iOS supports the traditional Chinese character set, which is used by Cantonese, as well as the extra characters that are specific to Cantonese. Did it ever occur to you to ask why that app you linked hasn't been updated for three years now? If you look back, you'll find that that Apple expanded its iOS efforts to include China around that time, along with adding input support for various forms of Chinese in iOS 4.

But hey, dinging them using information that hasn't been true for about three years is a favorite pastime of many a nerd, so please, continue.

Here's a big hint for Tim: on iOS, you can't write a custom keyboard. On Android you can. This is a really big deal in Hong Kong, because iOS has no support for Cantonese-based Chinese input. The best you can do is a kludgy app where you have to copy and paste the result (see https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canton-guang-dong-pin-yin/id385519764?mt=8).

Therefore, the Cantonese user is hamstrung by Apple's lack of support for the Cantonese-speaking market, together with their locked-down approach which prevents third party developers from filling the hole.

Compare this with the situation on Android, where there are at least five Cantonese-based keyboard input methods, together with Cantonese voice recognition. Why is it surprising if Hong Kongers find iOS seriously deficient?

Um there are tons of programming apps available in the iOS store, including apps designed to teach programming. For example Codea.

What Apple restricts is easily exporting/importing code written by others into those apps. They have required developers of such apps to disable iTunes file drag and drop input/export as well as other easy ways to move code about. Though stuff like iExplorer can be used to move files and works even if the tablets are not jailbroken.

$9.99

2. Fullscreen. Fullscreening any app on a monitor blanks out the other two monitors.

You'll be pleased to know that apple announced that fixing this is one of the major new features of Mavericks.

Get a Mac. Are you sure your toolset is Linux specific? Odds are your apps and tools run fine under Mac OS X. Some info from Apple:
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs//OSX_for_UNIX_Users_TB_July2011.pdf

No need for a second Mac. You can share a DVD drive from a Windows box.

Have a previous generation 11", and not buying another air. Reasons: ...
- no backlit keys. This is pretty much a show stopper. No keyboard should not have backlit keys.

While the other issues may be accurate in your opinion, the MBA does have a backlit keyboard for the current and previous generation at least. Are you sure it is not turned off?

here is a link to instructions :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4001668?start=0&tstart=0

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

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http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

I think you missed a word. Its computers are seeing a drop in sales growth -- when the growth curve is less than the one for inflation, then I'll start wondering about their long-term profitability.

It's easy to have enormous sales growth year-over-year when you don't have any sales to begin with. The fact that such a mammoth company is still growing their sales never ceases to amaze me. What new markets are they (and all the other device sellers) milking for this continued growth? Or is this just creative accounting?

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

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http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

I think you missed a word. Its computers are seeing a drop in sales growth -- when the growth curve is less than the one for inflation, then I'll start wondering about their long-term profitability.

It's easy to have enormous sales growth year-over-year when you don't have any sales to begin with. The fact that such a mammoth company is still growing their sales never ceases to amaze me. What new markets are they (and all the other device sellers) milking for this continued growth? Or is this just creative accounting?

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

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http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

I think you missed a word. Its computers are seeing a drop in sales growth -- when the growth curve is less than the one for inflation, then I'll start wondering about their long-term profitability.

It's easy to have enormous sales growth year-over-year when you don't have any sales to begin with. The fact that such a mammoth company is still growing their sales never ceases to amaze me. What new markets are they (and all the other device sellers) milking for this continued growth? Or is this just creative accounting?

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

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http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

>

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

I got the 2012 Air when it was released. Since then, my parents each bought one, plus an iMac.

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http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy13datasum.pdf

Your house is not the whole world....apples business strategy is failing...however successful it is around your house. The fact that its computers are seeing a drop in sales 22%; 2% and 7% shows it needs a new one.

And if screws is not your thing, then you can have Apple change it for you.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html

The problem is that PHP and web programmers are quite common. Even so, places like Facebook are looking for PHP developers and SQL engineers. Trying to find decent C programmers, especially those capable of working on embedded systems or the Linux kernel or device drivers are much harder to find. As for college, good luck getting started in the industry without a degree unless you've managed to make a name for yourself without it on some well known project.

For example:

(Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/careers/search?q=&location=menlo-park
(Google) https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/
(Apple) http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/corporate.html
(Tesla) http://tbe.taleo.net/CH07/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=TESLA&cws=1
(Cavium) http://www.cavium.com/careers.html
(Amazon Lab 126) http://www.lab126.com/careers.htm
(Yahoo) http://us.careers.yahoo.com/
(Xilinx) https://xapps9.xilinx.com/OA_HTML/RF.jsp?function_id=12325&resp_id=23350&resp_appl_id=800&security_group_id=0&lang_code=US&params=mCsTre-AToe2wnIXflPtqsZZTnVM9.N1OyhNnBv5KuqbLKT.chxR3de6DRGMEkZb&oas=suuh5UdozJuyoXGEIHQclw..
(Altera) http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH03/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=ALTERA&cws=1
(Intel) http://jobs.intel.com/
(Qualcomm) https://jobs.qualcomm.com/public/jobSearch.xhtml#messages

I am certainly not lying nor a shill. These are just off the top of my head. Many of these sites have pages of openings as well as openings for new college graduates.

Sounds like this: http://www.gizmodo.in/software/NearBytes-is-a-Sound-Based-NFC-like-Data-Transfer-Tech-that-Works-on-Any-Old-or-New-Phone/articleshow/21165630.cms or this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chirp/id529469280?mt=8

Steve Jobs was responsible for Apple's 2013 bond issue? They've got better tech than I thought.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2012/12/10/steve-jobs-warns-apple-dont-be-greedy/ Steve Jobs 1995 "What ruined Apple was not growth They got very greedy Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.”

Apple is now in a market where its competitors have better products; in larger selections; at better prices, and its response...

Designed by Apple in California http://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

So yeah when I say its revenues; profits; market share; technical edge; brand value; market cap are all down I tend to lay that responsibility square on Steve Jobs. Who should have embraced american manufacturing, made large sensible Acquisitions, planned for the maturing markets of its products...on the off chance it wasn't able to break into another new market, at an opportune time.

IBonds were a quick fix to its plummeting share price...the corporate rot is still there. Later I may be blaming the new Steve "I got rid of manufacturing" Cook for not stopping the rot, and squandering Billions too late.

At least you have the iPad Mini.

There is a TechCrunch article on the breach, and someone by the name of Ibrahim Balic is taking credit for the breach.
What he wrote is below, and the link provided goes directly to the comment.

Hi there,

My name is ibrahim Balic, I am a security researcher. You can also search my name from Facebook's Whitehat List. I do private consulting for particular firms. Recently I have started doing research on Apple inc.

In total I have found 13 bugs and have reported through http://bugreport.apple.com./ The bugs are all reported one by one and Apple was informed. I gave details to Apple as much as I can and I've also added screenshots.

One of those bugs have provided me access to users details etc. I immediately reported this to Apple. I have taken 73 users details (all apple inc workers only) and prove them as an example.

4 hours later from my final report Apple developer portal gas closed down and you know it still is. I have emailed and asked if I am putting them in any difficulty so that I can give a break to my research. I have not gotten any respond to this... I have been waiting since then for them to contact me, and today I'm reading news saying that they have been attacked and hacked. In some of the media news I watch/read that whether legal authorities were involved in its investigation of the hack. I'm not feeling very happy with what I read and a bit irritated, as I did not done this research to harm or damage. I didn't attempt to publish or have not shared this situation with anybody else. My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas for the porpoise of seeing how deep I can go within this scope. I have over 100.000+ users details and Apple is informed about this. I didn't attempt to get the datas first and report then, instead I have reported first.

I do not want my name to be in blacklist, please search on this situation. I'm keeping all the evidences, emails and images also I have the records of bugs that I made through Apple bug-report.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/21/apple-confirms-that-the-dev-center-has-potentially-been-breached-by-hackers/?hubRefSrc=permalink#lf_comment=87472293
Short URL: http://fyre.it/tjlVmC.4

This post is supported by zero evidence. Apple moved to LLVM because gcc moved to GPLv3 which is incompatible with the way most software companies do business. They've released anything and everything related to it under BSD license so anyone can fork any of it at any time. You can even download and recompile your MacOS X kernel from source if you want to using completely open source tools. Apple is one of the more prolific open source contributors out there, including Bonjour, WebKit, stream servers, C extensions, LLVM, clang, streaming media servers, their entire UNIX stack, and many small bits here and there. They just don't to GPL, so some people try to make a religious argument against them and throw unsupported allegations around.

This post is supported by zero evidence. Apple moved to LLVM because gcc moved to GPLv3 which is incompatible with the way most software companies do business. They've released anything and everything related to it under BSD license so anyone can fork any of it at any time. You can even download and recompile your MacOS X kernel from source if you want to using completely open source tools. Apple is one of the more prolific open source contributors out there, including Bonjour, WebKit, stream servers, C extensions, LLVM, clang, streaming media servers, their entire UNIX stack, and many small bits here and there. They just don't to GPL, so some people try to make a religious argument against them and throw unsupported allegations around.

This post is supported by zero evidence. Apple moved to LLVM because gcc moved to GPLv3 which is incompatible with the way most software companies do business. They've released anything and everything related to it under BSD license so anyone can fork any of it at any time. You can even download and recompile your MacOS X kernel from source if you want to using completely open source tools. Apple is one of the more prolific open source contributors out there, including Bonjour, WebKit, stream servers, C extensions, LLVM, clang, streaming media servers, their entire UNIX stack, and many small bits here and there. They just don't to GPL, so some people try to make a religious argument against them and throw unsupported allegations around.

Sevier is seeking damages from Apple, but said he we will drop the lawsuit if Apple agrees to sell devices with a 'safe mode.'"

Apple machines do come with a safe mode. Here is the relevant documentation (though primarily geared toward leaving safe mode).

The market decided long ago that fewer programmer hours was better than users waiting a few seconds everyday for their device to GC.

No, actually, that's not what happened. As the summary and the story itself (both of which went unread apparently,) point out, one of the most successful systems to emerge in the market recently, iOS, is not a GC environment.

Over here you may learn about iOS memory management. Without getting too far into that wall of text one discovers the following:

If you plan on writing code for iOS, you must use explicit memory management (the subject of this guide).

Ok, so your claim that GC is the only viable solution for contemporary application development is demonstrably false. Lets look some other assertions:

programmers are inherently bad at memory management. Memory will leak [if programmers must manage it].

First, the vast number of iOS applications not leaking shows that a non-GC system doesn't necessary have to leak. At least not badly enough to compromise the viability of the platform, which is the only meaningful criteria I can think of when it comes to the market.

Second, why assume programmers are inherently bad at a thing when that thing has traditionally been exposed via terrible, error prone, demonstrably awful mechanisms? It seems to me that among widely used tools we leaped from 'systems' languages with truly heinous MM primitives (C/C++) directly into pervasive GC systems. Aside from Objective C+ARC there just aren't enough good non-GC systems to make broad generalizations. Thus, you may be right about programmers, but you can't prove it, and I doubt it.

Finally, what proof is there that pervasive GC is better at not leaking than a good explicit MM system? Anyone with an Android system and a bunch of apps will quickly discover that pervasive GC does not eliminate leaks.

[some phone] comes with a whopping 2GB of RAM

Goggle Glass has 682mb of RAM. There is always a new platform into which we much fit our software and the new platform is usually resource constrained, so there will never be a day when questioning the cost of GCs is wrong. Maybe the wearable you eventually put on will have 8 GB of RAM. The computers you swallow or implant or sprinkle around the lawn probably won't. The fact the next generation of phones can piss away RAM to greedy GCs just isn't particularly informative.

Samsung S4, unlocked price: $699..

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-S4-White-AT/dp/B00CDZU40Q%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-z-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00CDZU40Q

Apple iPhone 5, unlocked price: $649.

http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone5

What in the world are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing? Also, do you understand that the Nexus phones are sold without profit, and even support costs built in? Google themselves have said that multiple times. It's the cost of hardware, and that is it. Have a think about it. Why would someone essentially do what an a "dump" of the Nexus hardware?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

Yes I'm kicking myself now that Google Maps is no longer available on i-devices.

Oh, wait, that's a lie.

You are a serial liar. "Mac sales are being crushed". That is sort of terminology is not used for a product on an annual cycle.

Mac Units:
2Q2013 3952k
2Q2012 4017k

1Q2013 4061k
1Q2013 4017k

Their sales on Macs are flat. There is no "more revenue from less units" nonsense. If you are reading Apple reports they quote year over year statistics and they do so for a very good reason, their products have 20% deviations between different quarters every year. That means nothing other than their products are cyclical. Pretending that's not the case and talking about quarter over quarter numbers is lying.

No looks again
Q1 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf [apple.com]
Q2 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf [apple.com]

Mac Units
5198 Q12012----seriously is this figure for last year so hard to pick out!
4061 Q12013
Hence a drop year on year of about a quarter of its sales of 22%

4017 Q22012
3952 Q2 2013
Hence a drop year on year of a more manageable 2%

You clearly an idiot(or simply lying) you can't even read a Data Sheet...never reply to anything I write again...you are now embarrassing yourself. Maybe you should go to adult learning class or something.

You are a serial liar. "Mac sales are being crushed". That is sort of terminology is not used for a product on an annual cycle.

Mac Units:
2Q2013 3952k
2Q2012 4017k

1Q2013 4061k
1Q2013 4017k

Their sales on Macs are flat. There is no "more revenue from less units" nonsense. If you are reading Apple reports they quote year over year statistics and they do so for a very good reason, their products have 20% deviations between different quarters every year. That means nothing other than their products are cyclical. Pretending that's not the case and talking about quarter over quarter numbers is lying.

No looks again
Q1 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf [apple.com]
Q2 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf [apple.com]

Mac Units
5198 Q12012----seriously is this figure for last year so hard to pick out!
4061 Q12013
Hence a drop year on year of about a quarter of its sales of 22%

4017 Q22012
3952 Q2 2013
Hence a drop year on year of a more manageable 2%

You clearly an idiot(or simply lying) you can't even read a Data Sheet...never reply to anything I write again...you are now embarrassing yourself. Maybe you should go to adult learning class or something.

Well we have more of your made up statistics.

I use Apples Earning Releases for my statistics. You should be able to see them in Firefox.
Q1 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
Q2 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf

Year on Year Change for Units was down 22% and 2% as previously stated.

No apology necessary.

Well we have more of your made up statistics.

I use Apples Earning Releases for my statistics. You should be able to see them in Firefox.
Q1 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy13datasum.pdf
Q2 2013 Unaudited Summary Data http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q2fy13datasum2.pdf

Year on Year Change for Units was down 22% and 2% as previously stated.

No apology necessary.