Apple continues its impressive financial streak with another record-breaking fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2011. The Cupertino company posted a record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion ($13.87 per diluted share). This is almost double the results in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin increased from 38.5 percent in [...]
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Apple Reports Record Q1 2012 Profits of $13B, Passes Exxon As World’s Most Valuable Company
Apple iCloud Set To Launch October 12
Apple is set to launch its breakthrough set of free cloud services tomorrow called iCloud together with iOS 5, as announced during the “Let’s Talk iPhone” event in Cupertino on October 4, where the tech giant also revealed the new iPhone 4S. The much-awaited iCloud includes iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in [...]
Apple Surpasses Lenovo in Greater China
According to the Financial Times, Apple has overtaken Lenovo, the world’s third-biggest personal computer maker by shipment volume, for the first time in terms of sales. Strong demand for iPhones, iPads and Macs pushed Apple’s second quarter sales in Greater China which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan. An increase of six fold year-on-year, to $3.8bn.
Apple Leapfrogs to Become Third Largest PC Vendor in the US
Apple, the world’s most valuable tech company, has become the third largest PC vendor in the US with 10.7 percent market share, based on latest data from Gartner, Inc. Apple showed the strongest growth among top-tier vendors in the US, climbing from fifth position to third, leaping ahead of Acer and Toshiba with an impressive [...]
Vernonchan.com is now on Alltop!
Bring out the champagne glasses, do cart wheels, plank. Whatever. We’re ecstatic and honoured to be informed by gargantuan “online magazine rack” content aggregator Alltop, co-founded by none other than master marketer and author Guy Kawasaki that vernonchan.com is joining the likes of TUAW, MacWorld, MacNN, Macrumors and Appleinsider in the Apple category. Being a huge [...]
Yes Life Now Available for Mac & iOS
Yes 4G Unified Communications Tool now available for Mac & iOS Yes 4G‘s unified communications tool – Yes Life is finally here for the Mac! Since the launch of Yes 4G late last year, Mac users have been envious of their Windows PC counterparts. Well, no longer. Yes Life now available not only on the [...]
Mac vs PC user Profiled [infographic]
![Mac vs PC user Profiled [infographic]](http://vernonchan.com/wp-content/themes/yamidoo_pro/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://vernonchan.com/wp-content/uploads/Mac-vs-PC-info-thumb.png&w=170&h=120&zc=1)
Which one are you? Hunch.com used 75 million answers to questions that it asked its 700,000 members to predict particular demographics, personality and other characteristics based on their computer type. Check out the infographic to see which computer user profile you identify with most. Full infographic after the jump.
Apple Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update
Apple released a Mac OS X v10.6.5 update recently for all Snow Leopard users. Contains mostly bug fixes, including performance, reliability and stability issues, as well as patching of security flaws. As usual, I prefer to install the Combo update as opposed to just patch over an existing running version via Software Update. Having run [...]
The Apple Store is finally in Malaysia!
The Apple Store in Malaysia! We’ve definitely waiting long enough for this. And what a time to open one with the economic crisis looming and real. But heck, what’s a better way to spur consumer spending right? Whatever it is, Apple, it’s going to be the Funnest Christmas ever. Oh, it’s also available in Bahasa [...]
iPhone 3G for USD199? You gotta be kidding me!
How about that? Twice as fast and at half the price! Amazing, amazing value for money. The new iPhone trounces the old with HSDPA and GPS (unfortunately retains the crap 2.0MP camera). No second camera for video calls, as rumoured which is a bummer. But heck, USD199 with contract and available in July in over [...]
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