Quarterly Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Tim Cook: We should have waited until 2013 to release new iMacs

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 24th, 2013)

During Apple's earnings conference call on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook fielded an analyst's question regarding Apple's product releases during the Fall 2012 quarter and delivered a surprisingly candid answer. Addressing the shipping delays that plagued Apple's new iMacs, Cook articulated that Apple ...

Can the iPad sustain its incredible yearly growth?

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Horace Dediu of Asymco examined the history of Apple's iPad sales since 2010 and calculated that its grown at an astonishing rate of 150 percent each year. Based on Apple's stellar iPad launch weekend, Dediu believes this phenomenal growth is sustainable. As Philip Elmer-DeWitt points out, ...

AT&T's iPhone "sales" versus "activations": Doing the Math

by Richard Gaywood (Jan 27th, 2012)

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science behind the hardware and software. Several sites -- including TUAW -- reported yesterday that 80% of all smartphones AT&T sold in Q411 were iPhones, based on AT&T's quarterly earnings report. On ...

McSweeney's revamps iOS app, now universal with a bookstore

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2011)

I've said before that I'm a huge fan of McSweeney's, the publishing group founded by author Dave Eggers. The company has had an iPhone app for a while, but it recently updated to a universal version, so now all of that great content (from daily posts to various blogs, books, and the eponymous ...

Apple turns the most customer service frowns upside down

by David Chartier (Aug 17th, 2006)

I couldn't resist the headline, but can you blame me? This tech stuff can be a doozie on consumers, but it seems that Apple just received the highest rankings in a customer support satisfaction survey released by the ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index). This 2006 second quarter report found ...

Nasdaq warns Apple of non-compliance

by Dan Lurie (Aug 14th, 2006)

Following reports of possible stock option improprieties by Apple executives and continuing internal and external investigations of these concerns, Apple has announced that it will delay the filing of its Q3 quarterly earnings reports until it is satisfied that the issues have been properly ...