News Archive for 08/07/21

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Apple posts regional, product sales figures for Q3

07/21, 5:10pm

Regional, product Q3 sales

As a part of its Q3 2008 financial results, Apple has posted explicit figures for sales by region, sector and product. The bulk of sales were of course in the Americas, where the company sold slightly over 1.1 million CPU units, producing a revenue of approximately $3.4 billion. The next-largest market was Europe, with 576,000 units and revenues of $1.6 billion. The retail sector, measured separately, is said to have accounted for 476,000 units, and revenue of $1.4 billion. Japan amounted to only 102,000 units and $365 million in revenue, but Apple supplemented this with $571 million from "other segments," including FileMaker and Asia Pacific streams.

Piper: NPD figures promise good Q3 results

07/21, 3:40pm

Piper on NPD and Q3 2008

With the availability of all three months' worth of NPD sales figures, more solid estimates of Apple Q3 product shipments can be gauged, say analysts with Piper Jaffray. Leading this is a predicted 2.35 to 2.4 million Macs, which amounts to a sizable 34 to 36 percent year-over-year increase. By comparison, The Street has targeted 25 percent. Piper says it is leaning towards the conservative end of its estimates, based on the possibility of low K-12 educational sales. The firm notes, though, that NPD does not track this information.

PwnageTool 2.0.1; ziPhone, 'yiPhone' creators speak

07/21, 10:10am

Pwnage Tool 2.0.1 update

The iPhone Dev Team has released v2.0.1 of PwnageTool, its combination jailbreaking and unlocking tool for iPhones and iPod touches. The update addresses several problems spotted after the app's weekend release, most notably the "Error 1600" warning, which has been solved by generating a "~/Library/iTunes/Device Support/" folder if one does not already exist. Other fixes include the elimination of hanging startups, and a corrected Sparkle AppCast URL, needed to ensure the delivery of future automatic updates. The Dev Team notes that phones do not need to be hacked a second time if they have already been pwned.