Panel:
- Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots
- Adam Christianson from The Mac Cast – @maccast
- Gazmaz from the My Mac Podcast – @gazmaz
- Nick Riley – @spligosh
The show starts with a quick correction from last month’s show, then moves on to look at some of the many numbers and statistics released in January before moving on to a quick rundown of some Apple-related legal stories. The big stories for the month were Apple’s spectacular first quarter, David Cameron’s attack on secure messaging apps, the Thunderstrike vulnerability, Microsoft’s preview of Windows 10, and some staff changes at Apple. The show finishes with a quick rundown of some other Apple related stories that made the news in January.
You’ll find detailed show notes below the fold, and if you enjoy this free show, please consider clicking on the donate button at the top of the left side bar – the show is free for you to listen to, but not for Bart to Produce!
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Correction from LTA 16
- Bart: I confused the BBC current affairs program Panorama with the BBC documentary series Horizon – it was Panorama who did the hit job on Apple, not Horizon. I should have known that because Horizon have created some of my favourite science and maths documentaries!
Notable Numbers
- Android dominated 2014 with 1.1Bn devices shipped – www.macobserver.com/…
- two months after release Android Lolipop adoption is so low it doesn't even show in Google's own numbers – www.extremetech.com/…
- About half of Macs now running Yosemite – www.macobserver.com/…
- Swift jumps 46 places in RedMonk programming language rankings – www.loopinsight.com/…
- Apple is the No.2 camera manufacturer on Flickr – between Canon at 1 and Nikon at 3 – petapixel.com/…
- Mac Growth stomps PC growth again – 18% growth and 7.1% global share – www.macobserver.com/…
Legal Latest
- Apple, Google & Co, up their offer in the anti-poaching case to $415M – www.macobserver.com/…
- After 2 years of failed negotiations, Apple and Ericsson go to court over LTE patents – www.macobserver.com/…
- A judge has dismissed a class action suit claiming Apple knowingly sold MacBook Pros with defective motherboards – www.macobserver.com/…
- Monster sues Beats over Apple acquisition – www.macobserver.com/…
Main Stories
- Apple post record first quarter results – www.apple.com/…
- Summary:
- Revenue: $74.6Bn – up from $57.6Bn YAQ (consensus estimate was $63.5Bn)
- Earnings: $18Bn – up from $13.1Bn YAQ
- Earnings per share: $3.06 – up from $2.07 YAQ (consensus estimate was $2.60)
- Gross margins: 39.9%
- iPhones Sold: 74.5M (analysts expected about 69M)
- The most profitable quarter for any company ever – http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/apple-just-had-the-biggest-quarterly-earnings-of-any-company-ever/
- Apple have sold their billionth iOS device – http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-ios-device-sales-top-1-billion-units
- Apple changed the categories they report on, giving out less info than before – www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple Pay already dominating contactless payments – more than 2 out of three contactless payments in US are Apple Pay. Apple Pay coming to more places, including vending machines soon – www.macobserver.com/…
- Tim Cook says iWatch will ship in April – www.macobserver.com/…
- RELATED – Apple takes top luxury gifting spot in China – www.reuters.com/…
- RELATED – Samsung mobile profits plunge 64.2%, iPhone 6 blamed – appleinsider.com/…
- RELATED – Apple tied with Samsung for global smartphone units in Q4 2014 – www.macobserver.com/…
- David Cameron launches a war on private communication – www.independent.co.uk/…
- Obama expresses support – blogs.wsj.com/…
- RELATED – Apple dramatically increases it's lobbying in Washington – www.macobserver.com/…
- Thunderstrike – the first know Mac Bootkit
- researchers announce the uber-rootkit that allows malware to infest a Mac's firmware – nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- Apple patch the bug in OS X 10.10.2 – www.intego.com/…
- Microsoft Previews Windows 10 – www.cnet.com/…
- HOLOGRAMS – arstechnica.com/…
- focus on Universal Apps to allow better integration between phone and desktop – arstechnica.com/…
- Windows 10 to be free to Windows 7 & 8.1 users – arstechnica.com/…
- Good bye IE, hello Project Spartan – arstechnica.com/…
- Cortana coming to the Desktop – arstechnica.com/…
- in-home Xbox One streaming – arstechnica.com/…
- Microsoft to turn Skype into their own version of iMessage – www.theverge.com/…
- Preview version coming to desktops now, phones in February – arstechnica.com/…
- Apple Exec News
- SEC filing details Apple executive pay – www.imore.com/…
- Apple hires another former Burberry exec – Chester Chipperfield comes to Apple for 'special projects' – www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple hires HP veteran for Corporate Sales – www.macobserver.com/…
- Mickey Drexler retires from Apple's board – www.macobserver.com/…
Quick Stories
- Apple buy music analytics firm Semetric – www.macobserver.com/…
- The Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie is actually happening – filming has stated, and Fassbender will play the lead – www.macobserver.com/…
- RELATED – filming starts in the garage of Jobs' childhood home – www.cnet.com/…
- Apple re-vamps free on iTunes – www.macobserver.com/…
- Blackberry's latest 'hail mary' – bastardise net neutrality – arstechnica.com/…
- It emerges that the reason there was no finger print scanner in the Nexus 6 is that Apple were smart enough to buy AuthenTec – www.macobserver.com/…
- Samsung to take on Apple Pay with Samsung Pay – www.macobserver.com/…