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Apple posts record Q3 revenue, defers some iPhone revenue until December

Apple held its Q3 2010 earnings call this afternoon, announcing its best quarter ever, even when compared to previous holiday quarters. Net income was up 78%, with revenues of $15.3 Billion compared to $9.73 Billion from the same quarter last year, with net quarterly profit of $3.25 Billion or $3.51 per diluted share. The company [...]
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WWDC 2010 Preview

Today, Apple will present several new products to its third party developer community…and through the tremendous press scrunity — not to mention what Steve Jobs recently called (an undesirable) “nation of bloggers” (ahem) — by extension the larger world of its users, enthusiasts and curious potential ‘switchers.’ Some of them will be software, some will [...]
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Another record financial quarter for Apple

Apple has announced Q2 2010 earnings, recording 49% revenue growth year over year with $13.5 billion revenue and a 90% increase in profits to $3.07 billion
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Latest Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta suggests release imminent

A new test build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 has been seeded to developers, with known issues listed as “none.” This typically means that the build is a final test seed and barring major surprises, can be expected to be released in a matter of days.
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Apple posts 27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0, halts iMac production?

Today Apple posted 27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0, which targets the display itself rather than the graphic hardware. The official release notes say this update is intended to fix “intermittent display flickering”, a common complaint with the new machines. In addition to the new firmware update, Hardmac is running a story that cites unnamed [...]
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It wouldn’t be January without….

....a little fireworks, Cupertino style.
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Apple reports record Mac, iPhone sales for Q1 2010

During Apple's quarterly earnings call this afternoon, the company reported record Mac and iPhone sales during the fiscal 2010 first quarter, and commented a bit about problems with AT&T, and the their relationship with Google.
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Apple quietly adds 3.33GHz quad-core Mac Pro to keep up with iMac, but fails to match value

Apple has, with little fanfare, added a 3.33GHz Core i7 Xeon 3500 (Bloomfield) option to its Mac Pro lineup for quad-core/single-chip models. Comments by the usual suspects in Cupertino have mirrored community speculation that this is a (weak) response to the new quad-core iMac clearly crushing the value equation of the Pro....but due to its dependence on costly Xeon-class chips, that equation has not changed.
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Apple announces $1.33/share Q2 profit, shatters Wall Street estimates

The grapevine widely predicted that Apple, Inc. (AAPL)'s second quarter financials would "beat the Street" -- but even some of the more optimistic predictors, Rumors included, were hesitant to suggest numbers quite as enthusiastic as they believed were possible. We need not have been so conservative; sales in every area were ahead of expectations and even insiders (more than a few) have been pleasantly surprised by the performance of Mac and non-Touch iPod sales as these sectors weather a near-perfect storm in the marketplace.
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Apple to announce Q2 financial results today

In a highly anticipated announcement & analyst/investor conference call later this afternoon, Apple Inc. will disclose their second quarter financial numbers and answer long-standing questions about the performance of the company's business under the most challenging (external/marketplace) conditions in the company's history even as it offers its strongest line-up of products in that history....read on and stay tuned for ongoing analysis right here on Rumors.
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Apple to announce its quarterly financials in just over two weeks

With both the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas (Sunday the 19th) and Apple's second quarter financial results announcement/conference call (Wednesday the 22nd) coming up in about two weeks' time, excitement and speculation are running high over what might be unveiled this month.
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Mark Papermaster, subject of IBM/Apple lawsuit, starts work in April

A former big-wig within IBM's PowerPC processor division, Apple employee Mark Papermaster will at long last begin actively working at his job as head of the iDevice group at Infinite Loop now that a settlement betwen the two companies has been achieved. Some debate has taken place over whether a relevant contract expires before mid-June, but a press release from Apple today specified April 24th as Papermaster's start date.
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The Mac’s 25th Anniversary — Founder’s Column, Part 1

In the days to come, we will be posting a series of introspective articles analyzing the history and present-day state of the Mac in light of this weekend's 25th Anniversary of the introduction of the very first Mac; to get us started, our founder Ryan C. Meader takes a look back and lays the foundation for the coming look at what's ahead in Parts 2 & 3 later this week.We hope you've had as much fun as we have, rumor-mongering these past fourteen-plus years; but, like Apple; we've only just begun!
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Apple Web store(s) offline; rumblings of announcements build

As of Sunday morning Eastern time, reader and source reports have been coming in at a blistering pace as the online Apple Store reportedly went offline for most of the night. It came back later Sunday morning, and remained online throughout the remainder of the weekend.
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Community reeling from news of Steve Jobs’ “medical leave of absence”

As many of you already know, recently the community has been consumed by fears, doubts, debate and concern over the state of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health. This culminated in a series of announcements from Jobs, the most recent of which made intense waves on the Mac Web with the news that he will be stepping down from his position until at least June for a "medical leave of absence."
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