Apple Reports Third Quarter Results – 222.000 iPhones per day.

Posted on 20, 2011 by Linus

All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings
iPhone Sales Grow 142% iPad Sales Grow 183%…

Apple just released last quater numbers. 20.34 millions iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs, (2.8 Million laptops).

The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.

“We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,” “Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

Download Q3 2011 Unaudited Summary Data

Fake Apple store in Kumming, China – Steve Jobs must act

Posted on 20, 2011 by Linus

Are you listening, Steve Jobs?

From Birdabroad.

“The Western news media is replete with pithy descriptions of the rapid changes taking place in China: China has the world’s fastest growing economy. China is undergoing remarkable and rapid change. This represents a unique moment for a society changing as quickly as China.

You probably read such things in the paper every day – but if you have never been to China, I’m not sure you know quite what this means on a mundane level. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, in the 2+ years that RP and I have been in our apartment, much of the area around us has been torn down, rebuilt, or gutted and renovated – in some cases, several times over. I had the thought, only half-jokingly, that when we returned from a couple months abroad, we might not be able to recognize our apartment building. Or that it might not be there at all.

As it turns out, my fears were baseless – our scrappy little home remains. The neighborhood, however, has definitely kicked it up a notch or seven. Starbucks has opened not one, but THREE branches (that I encountered) within a 10 minute walk of one another. An H&M has opened across from our apartment building. These are the kinds of major Western brands that were previously only represented in Kunming by fast food chains like McDonald’s and KFC. Our neighborhood has quickly become the swanky shopping center of the city.

So when we strolled down a street a few blocks from our house a couple weeks ago, I was only sort of surprised to see this new place, one that any American of my generation can probably recognize instantaneously:”

It’s an Apple store!

Or is it?

RP and I went inside and poked around. They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks.

Brand new Apple iPad 2

Posted on 2, 2011 by Linus

The brand new iPad 2 comes packed with an dual core A5 chip that delivers up to 9x faster graphics and cut in doubles the average run time. The iPad 2 also comes with a front facing camera and a rear camera that shots HD video (720p). It’s 30 % thinner than the iPad and weighs 15% less. Yeah enough for you to feel it.

Quick list of things that are better, A5 Chip, 2 layers of before the screen instead of 3, the screen will feel more tight, 2 brand new cameras, lighter, thinner, no aluminum frame, rock solid unibody design, better speakers.

So conclusion? Do we want it? yes. simply because Apple tells us to.

Open letter to Steve Jobs, Thoughts on iPhone 4

Posted on 9, 2010 by Linus

So, Steve released thoughts on Flash… So i thought why don’t I release thoughts on iPhone 4. Well it’s very hard for me to be constructive in my critics when it comes to Apple. Because they are the number one company in the world when it comes to design consumer products. The level of detail and quality in finish isn’t found anywhere else, maybe if you compare to a Leica camera or and old Braun product from the 60′s. The build quality is always down to the micrometer. Almost at atom level. So what will be different with the iPhone 4? Well not much when it comes to the iOS4, we have had video calls in sweden since the beginning of the 00′s. And Face Time seems cool but not like revolution, and it builds on that everyone has an iPhone 4, very good unique selling point, but thats it really. And we have some gorgeous new features like multitasking, folders, unified inboxes. We also sure knows that Apple and Adobe are friends, and the only reason Flash is not supported is, “It’s simply not running fast enough” – Steve Jobs D8. I love that quote, and I so agree with Steve, HTML5 and CSS3 is the open standard we all should live and develop in, I still know people building sites with tables… So simply go learn HTML5 and CSS3, it’s worth the effort. Because it’s the future.

So what about the hardware? Well here it’s starts to get interesting, first of we got this new beautiful housing, with stainless steel and glass enclosure on both the front and the back. We have this stainless steel frame to also with the help of great engineering works as both an antenna for the GPS, WiFi and bluetooth and the other part works as GSM and HSDPA antenna. Thats just shows how far Apple has come in terms of designing and building great products. So now you think… Whats the downside of this? Well first of, how many do you know that hasn’t broken their screen on their iPhone? Mine never got destroyed, touch wood… But i know plenty of people that has dropped their phone from various heights, with vary outcomes. So if this thing is on both the front and the back, will i have shattered glass allover the apartment if i drop it? And will it be all greasy? Or is it scratch/grease resistant? Just thoughts on that, I just love the design more than ever, but my thoughts this time are trying to be objective.

More on hardware, lets look inside, well they gone with a right decision when they boosted the battery, and when they made the iPhone 24% thinner. They also made an amazing thing when they decided to put in the A4 chip in that little magical device. If we look a bit deeper, we see that they change to 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only). This is way better, the still got the Assisted GPS, and Digital Compass. Now they also introduce a gyroscope, this simply means gaming is going to be awesome. Do dig a bit deeper on the Gyro, they combine all the sensors on the device and generate a 6-axis motion tracking device. Position, Gravity & Velocity. Still got that gnarly Bluetooth EDR system, you can now pair your bluetooth keyboard.

What do we got left Steve… Thoughts on the iPhone… Ohhh snap, the Retina Display, wow, really, Retina? I mean in the print industry 300 dpi is somewhat standard for magazines. For you people that don’t understand thats the amount of dots being printed per square inch. PPI is the same but comes in handy when you talk about screens. To compare 326 PPI, the exact number of the Retina Display, to print should be just the same, so it should be like looking at a really nice magazine. And a regular computer screen, like the one you get in a Dell or HP first it was 76 PPI then someone decided to change that to 96, and now we have screens like the one on the iMac with 126 ppi… Pretty higres if you ask me but 326?! Thats really insane, and i can’t wait to see that pixel density on larger screens, when that time comes we will talk SPR 8 HD MEGA CHANNEL QUALITY. The branding wont even fit on TV stickers any more, we’ll need to make the screens bigger to fit the stickers.

Well thats the thing I’m most exited about, the Retina Display, however i think the name is bodacious, like what?! A Retina Display? Do you scan your eyes with it? But thats the only downside.

So thats it, my thoughts on iPhone 4. Whats yours? Please comment or share this post. It’s beautiful journalism.
Send steve an email: sjobs@apple.com
Check out the awesome new iPhone site: www.apple.com/iphone
Just want to get HTML5 into your brain: www.apple.com/HTML5

Linus – Editor in Chief

iWatch – We want this Apple…

Posted on 10, 2010 by Linus

The Italian design studio ADR Studio has dreamed up this iPhone-inspired clock which translates as “iWatch”.

In their dreams so iWatch is equipped with WiFi, Bluetooth, built-in projector, weather application, RSS reader, and 16GB of internal memory.

If we ever get to see a iWatch on the market is something probably only Steve Jobs knows about. But I might think that it would be a nice market for Apple to break into, now that it has done so well in the other segments is tested.

See more 3D renders over att adr-studios

iPhone 4G first leak, Gizmodo Exclusive

Posted on 19, 2010 by Linus

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:

What’s new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

What do we think of the iPad

Posted on 8, 2010 by Linus

So the iPad is soon here for us to enjoy. But what do we think about it? It’s truly an amazing product, it has the Apple level of detail and finish from what we can see from the photos and videos that already floats on the internet. Do we think that it’s going the change the way we communicate via computers, social networks and how we surf the web… FUCK YEAH!

You might think we are just a bunch of FAN Boys that just want to write nicely about the iPad… We are not. We love Apple but they to can make products of lower level of use… Like the Apple TV. Ofcourse we got one, but we never use it. How is the iPad different from the Apple TV? In many ways its similar, looks like a giant iPod Touch… Just like the Apple TV looks like a Mac Mini with eating disorders.

But there the similarities ends, the iPad is just great, it’s NOT a computer and it’s not a iPhone… It’s a pad. We are going to have them in our kitchens, in our living rooms, our kids will use them, play on them, communicate with friends on them, they will multitask… They will let you sit in the sofa and read a magazine or book, and you will discover a new world, where magazines not only contains one image, they will have many, they will be able to play movies, they will be dynamic, sweet looking and the way of the future.

Our view on the iPad can not be written down in words on a blog, they must be done into an eBook that will sell on the iBook store… Yes a virtual book store, so now apple will change the way we read, libraries are old, but the iBook store is new and funky fresh. Together with the iTunes U store this product will also revolutionize the way schools work. It’s highly portable and has a whopping 10 hour battery life and 30 days standby… It’s just beautiful.

Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs together with all of the wonderful staff at Apple inc has done it again, mark our words, this device will change our way of life.

Booooom Chica Bow Wow, Green & Sweet Jony Ive and A new Stunning Aluminum MacBook Line Up

Posted on 14, 2008 by Linus

So where do i start, alot of online magazines, blogs and Mac fan boys are writing their hands off about the new MacBook and the new MacBook Pro. I saw another angle on this, i was looking at the Gizmodo live update stream, jumped over to apple.com and watched the new MacBook movie. And there he was, Jonathan Ive on of the worlds most talented industrial designer of our time. So i thought why don’t i write about this from another perspective. We are not used to see Jony Ive in the spot light, and here we see him in a way that i think we will see him more of in the future. People are throwing guesses about who most certainly will take over when Steve Jobs steps down, I think that someone is Jony Ive. I know there are a lot of you that wouldn’t agree but something deep inside me say that Jonathan is our man.

The British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple. He re-designed the way we use a cell phone, yeah thats right, the iPhone he also designed the iMac, aluminum PowerBook G4 (and MacBook Pro) todays MacBook and New MacBook Pro and the little giddy MacBook Air, iPod and iPhone. So thats why i think he will take over from good old Steve, he got the same principles when it comes to form, design & leadership. I see Jony as a really talented designer with some serious management skills. If you are into get a updated interview with Ive thats hard to get, when he often choices not to be part of the Media tense. But now it seems like someone (maybe Steve) participate in that sweet little movie. I personally hope that we will see more of Jonathan in the future of apple, and i crave more of that nifty timeless sweet design of his.

Here are some images on the new MacBook. Here we can see the new Battery Indicator, placed on the front, witch makes me wonder how the bottom of this pice of candy looks like.

Here in that Bokehy part of the photo you see a hint of that GLASS & black part of the LED display.

And yes we will have the black backlit keyboard that we have seen on the MacBook Air. And yes even the consumer line will have the backlit version, if we still can call it a consumer line product.

This is what the little beauty looks like from above, it still have almost the same dimensions, a bit thinner but the aluminum casing (witch is made from a single block of aluminum) is just stunning, personally i’ve been waiting on a full aluminum product line from Apple for a while and i must say, it’s epic and timeless.

Lets round this up with a frontal view of the new and sweet MacBook, if you want a full technical spec list head over to the www.apple.com/macbook/ site and you will have all the tech info you need. So what can we make of this, I’m stoked over the new Line Up and in the future i want more Jonathan Ive, do you agree or I’m I completely of track?

iPhone caught on Fire

Posted on 19, 2008 by Linus

23 year old Emil Ahlén woke up to the smell of burnt plastic, and he looked down on the floor where he had put his iPhone before he got to sleep and yes there where flames coming out of the charger socket, and the plastic that surrounds the charger socket was molten, he quickly got hold of an towel and successfully killed the fire. Now however the Swedish company that sells the iPhone TELIA wont help him they have been tossing the iPhone between them and Apple for a couple of days, and Apples spokes man in Sweden is not giving media any information, he tells us to wait for the spokes man in England to give a press release.

Since the release of the Apple iPhone world wide the 11th of july the hype has been huge and they have sold a lot of phones, i just hope for the sake of the rest of us iPhone users that this is an isolated situation. And that Steve Jobs helps Emil Ahlén in this case, show some of the Apple goodwill.

/ Linus Ekenstam – A geeky nerd xoxo

The Hype is Hugh – iPhone 3G

Posted on 10, 2008 by Linus

So many of you might not be interested in the iPhone at all, we did make a lot of new yesterday from the WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, those of you that don’t know what it is it’s a developers convention for the development of Apple Inc. Mostly about the tech future in the company, OSX and of course the iPhone.

Well a couple of months ago there turned up some pictures online, one of them was this one, showing up the backside of the new iPhone 3G however people turned it down as a thing you could buy in China.
So the Rumors went on and just a couple of days after the first image (the one above) we got another one all over the internet; This time the backside of the iPhone was facing up and you could see it laying on a Macbook Pro, but once again people turned it down as a FAKE photo. Well now that we have the key in our hand we know they where true photos and not fake ones and we also learned how hard it is to get your sources right.
So what can we say about the new iPhone? We can start of buy Whining over the stuff it did not get, (however i don’t care about this at all) The iPhone did not get;

Better Camera

Stereo Bluetooth

Front faced camera for video calls

Cut & Copy Paste

Bigger storage

Picture messaging

Video Recording

So this pictures show of the new iPhone and the similarity to the Photos that have been out and around the web are well identical. So now you know the downsides, the only thing i think we can’t fix because its a hardware issue is the Storage space. The other things on their hand is software stuff, so i think that we will see this things in form form 3rd parties.
The things that are new with the iPhone 3G;

GPS

Slimmer design

Microsoft Exchange support

Push; email, contact, calendar via: MobileMe

Possibility to ad-hoc, close system

3rd part development applications

App Store

Affordable prices, from $199 (or €130)

The new iPhone 2.0 OSX with tons of new features

So form my standpoint this is THE phone on the market, the things i mentioned before about the Copy & Past, no MMS, those are software issues, witch any good programmer out there can fix, and well lets face it how much storage does your mobile phone have?! mine has 2GB… So 16GB do it for me. The price is just unbelievable from a high $399 to just 199$ i wanna see what Nokia will do with their N96 now, its bigger, clumsier, more expensive, not the same storage space, no touch screen, no OSX.

The other strong things with the new iPhone 3G is the possibiltie you have to play games, like the Super Monkey Ball; You can also watch this video from YouTube where Sega demonstrated the game in realtime.

So the verdict with the new Apple iPhone 3G… Yes i crave it and yes I’m gonna get it, and yes its the best phone ever made by man.

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