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From the Apple shareholders' meeting: Approvals, 'new categories' and another campus delay

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

The Apple shareholders' meeting was held in Cupertino earlier today, and CNBC has a full liveblog of all of the proceedings. There wasn't a lot of hard news out of the meeting, as most of it was taken up with bureaucratic goings-on, including ...

Good news: Apple dominating enterprise activations

by Steven Sande (Feb 26th, 2013)

Good Technology released its Q4 2012 Device Activation Report (PDF) yesterday, and the news is good for Apple in terms of its dominance of in the enterprise market. But there are some dark clouds on the horizon for the computer company in the ...

A look at Apple's international retail strategy

by Steven Sande (Feb 25th, 2013)

Asymco analyst Horace Dediu does a very good job of dissecting the Apple financial data released publicly to discover trends and tidbits of information. Today Dediu looked into Apple's international retail strategy and pulled out some tasty ...

iPhone 5, 4S top selling smartphones worldwide

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2013)

What with Forbes speculating that Apple leaked "iWatch" plans out of desperation and the recent counterintuitive drop in share price after the company's last stellar earnings report, one would think that Apple's on the verge of going out of ...

NPD: Apple accounted for 1/5th of all US consumer tech revenue last year

by Steven Sande (Feb 19th, 2013)

The 2012 superlatives for Apple just keep rolling in. NPD Group released a report today showing an overall decline in US sales of consumer technology for the year, but that Apple's share of sales (based on revenue) rose from 17.3 percent in 2011 ...

Ranking Apple analysts

by Steven Sande (Feb 18th, 2013)

Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Apple 2.0 keeps track of the how well Wall Street analysts -- and amateur Apple watchers -- predict the fortunes of the company. An overzealous estimate of earnings that isn't met by a correspondingly big figure by Apple ...

Apple blasts shareholder lawsuit in court response

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2013)

Just a few days after Apple CEO Tim Cook referred to a shareholder lawsuit spearheaded by Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn as a "silly sideshow," the company filed its formal response to the lawsuit. As one would expect, the ...

Tim Cook: Shareholder lawsuit is a 'silly sideshow'

by Steven Sande (Feb 12th, 2013)

You may recall a TUAW post last week about a shareholder lawsuit spearheaded by Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn. The lawsuit essentially claims that Apple isn't doing enough to make sure that shareholders are receiving the benefits ...

Apple's "disappointing" quarter out-performs hugely profitable companies

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2013)

In many of the financial press accounts of Apple's Q1 2013 results, the terms "disappointing" and "flat" were used to describe the company's performance. Well, as you can see in the graphic above from Statista, Apple's performance was far and ...

iPhone global market share grew to 25.1% in 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 25th, 2013)

According to data published by IDC, Apple's global share of the smartphone market grew from 18.8 percent to 25.1 percent during 2012. That share is based on sales of 93.1 million iPhones in 2011 and 136.8 million sold in calendar year 2012. ...

Liveblog of Apple Q1 2013 Earnings Call

by Steven Sande (Jan 23rd, 2013)

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Apple announces Q1 2013 financial results

by Steven Sande (Jan 23rd, 2013)

Apple has announced its Q1 2013 earnings. For the quarter that ended on December 31, 2012, the news is outstanding, with a record revenue of more than $54 billion and sales of more than 75 million iOS devices. In all, 47.8 million iPhones were ...

Join us for a TUAW liveblog of the Apple Q1 2013 earnings call

by Steven Sande (Jan 23rd, 2013)

This afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will host Apple's Q1 2013 earnings call to discuss the company's financial fortunes for the quarter ending December 31, 2012. As always, TUAW is hosting a liveblog of the event, during ...

Sterne Agee analyst: iPhone 5 demand 'remains robust'

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2013)

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal report that Apple had cut iPhone 5 parts orders due to weak demand for the phone may have been incorrect. Shaw Wu, an Apple analyst with Sterne Agee known for his insightful questions during Apple earnings calls, ...

Reports of weak iPhone 5 demand briefly send Apple stock below $500

by Randy Nelson (Jan 14th, 2013)

As we reported earlier today, news broke on Sunday that Apple has apparently reduced its orders for key iPhone 5 components by half. The decision was supposedly made based on weak demand for the phone, but as we pointed out, the move could very ...

Gartner contradicts IDC, says Mac shipments up in Q4 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 14th, 2013)

Last week, IDC estimated that Apple's sales of Macs in the holiday quarter of 2012 were down 0.2 percent year over year. Today, Gartner released contradictory numbers showing an actual growth rate of 5.4 percent from the previous year. The ...