Analysts set the expectations and the mothership inevitably knocks ‘em. Mac and iPhone unit volumes both posted excellent double-digit growth, and Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, also delivered high unit volume, selling more than a quarter-million units in the last few days of the period.
A pair of congressmen demanded answers from Apple about how and why it collects iPhone and iPad GPS user data, and they got answer. Granted, the information was already available, but reading as opposed to calling a press conference wouldn’t have gotten either man any headlines and it is after all an election year.
After spending an uncomfortable hour on stage responding to user and press issues with the reception on Apple’s iPhone 4, Jobs and company will be on more familiar ground at their earnings call this afternoon.
Apple rolls a big update just prior to a major hardware refresh, the iPhone 4 in this instance, and that’s usually quickly followed a bug fix. Hence, we have today’s iTunes update, which addresses performance, iOS upgrade, Mac n’ Windows security and other issues.
When Steve Jobs took the stage to talk about the iPhone 4 reception issue, he carefully trod the middle ground, with the result that no minds were really changed. But would they have been in any case?
It has been more than a year since the last Mac Pro update, so a refresh is more than overdue. Although the processor, chipset and graphics aren’t known, Apple’s pro tower is getting faster, way faster, I/O in the form of USB 3 and next-gen FireWire connectivity.
Steve Jobs has famously said that we have been “working our butts off” in order to find a solution for the iPhone 4′s antenna issue. For some denizens of 1 Infinite Loop, that means long, long hours as they struggle to get their arms around a problem that’s resulted in few real complaints and even fewer returns.
The district attorney is backing off and Gawker Media, the parent of Gizmodo, has agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The only apparent losers here are the lawyers and, of course, Brian Hogan who’s apparently still gonna be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Speculation is rife about how Apple will handle today’s press conference, assumed to be about reception on the iPhone 4. In truth, what they will do depends a bit on reality and a bit on corporate spin.
Thiner, lighter and something of a template for other Apple products. Plus, as presaged by the iPhone 4, the iPod touch will also arrive with Apples custom A4 SOC inside, though the camera won’t be quite as potent as one in its smartphone big brother.
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