Royal Deer Design » Mac

Apple’s Second Quarter Profit

Sheuli — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:01:20 +0000

Apple reported a 90 percent increase in profits for the quarter ended on March 27. During the quarter worldwide iPhone shipments was 8.75 million (it is an increase of 131 percent compared to first quarter 2009), Mac computer unit shipments worldwide was 2.94 million (it is an increase of 33 percent compared to the first quarter 2009), iPod shipments was 10.89 million (it is a 1 percent drop compared to the first quarter 2009).

“We’ve launched our revolutionary new iPad and users are loving it, and we have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in his statement.

Operating System Market Share

Sheuli — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:38:11 +0000

Microsoft sold more than 60 million copies of Windows 7 by the end of 2009. This quick growth has continued through the first quarter of 2010 and now Windows 7 has 10% market share.

Windows XP dropped to 64.46 percent market share, Windows Vista to 16.01 percent, and Windows 7 jumped to 10.23 percent. Mac operating system has 5.55 percent, Linux 1.03%.

Source: marketshare.hitslink.com

Opera 10.50

Sheuli — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:07:29 +0000

Opera is launching today its newest browser – Opera 10.50 for Windows. Mac and Linux versions will be released soon.

You can download Opera 10.50 from here.

Apple shows a big profit

Sheuli — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:31:45 +0000

The newest report from Apple shows a big profit for the quarter ended December 26. The income jumped more than 40 percent ($3.38 billion) up from $2.26 billion a year earlier. Revenue rose from $11.88 billion to $15.68 billion in the same quarter last year. Apple announced that the company sold 3.36 million Macs in the quarter, it is up 33 percent from the 2.5 million it sold in the same period last year. Apple also said it sold 21 million iPods (compared to 22.7 million iPods in the same quarter year ago) and 8.7 million iPhones (compared to 4.3 million year ago).