Mac sales up over 40 percent year-over-year
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| Apple later this month is expected to announce fiscal first quarter revenues
| of nearly $10 billion for the three-month period ending December, fueled
| largely by the ongoing resurgence of the company's personal computer
| business, according to one Wall Street analyst.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/14/mac_sales_up_over_40_percent_year_over_year.html
Not much to abolish Linux phones though:
Iphone won't hit sales target
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| So Apple has gone right past the hot sales season and still has six million
| handsets to sell. There have been persistent rumours that O2 has been gagged
| over its actual UKIphones sales.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/16/iphone-won-hit-sales-target
Apple announcement just a load of hot Air
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| When all was said and done, it was hardly a wasted journey to ol' London
| town - but the blatant second-class citizenship of the UK is a little hard to
| swallow. Even more irritating than this were the group of journalists that
| insisted on clapping along with Steve's announcements on the big screen. I
| don't think anybody told them the satellite link didn't go two ways.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/15/load-hot-air
Related:
Symbiotic: What Apple Does for Open Source
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| No amount of wealth or political power can bankrupt, buy out, or shut
| down the entire community of free and open source software
| development. That hasn't stopped Microsoft from trying however. After
| years of idle complaint that described Linux and open source in
| general as both a communist threat and a cancer, Microsoft's
| executives dialed up their efforts this year with a warning that 235
| of the company's patents were infringed upon in open source projects.
|
| [...]
|
| Among Microsoft's infamous "235 Linux patents", 45 actually relate to
| OpenOffice and 83 apply to FOSS applications not part of the Linux
| kernel or its commonly associated graphical interface code. Some of
| that code may likely be included in Mac OS X. If Microsoft attempted
| to shutdown SAMBA or projects pertaining to NTFS support for example,
| Apple could intercede to pursue peace with an influence and patent
| portfolio most FOSS developers lack.
|
| The reason for Apple's natural alignment behind open source isn't due
| to a halo of righteousness, but because the company is contending as a
| minority player in several markets dominated by Microsoft and the
| proprietary technologies it has established as de facto standards.
| Apple's position is identical to Linux, BSD, and other open source
| projects, giving it strong reasons to intercede on the behalf of
| victims of patent terrorism....
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/12/18/symbiotic-what-apple-does-for-open-source/#more-1378
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