Apple’s Total Revenue Goes Up With 73% Since Last Year No comments yet

Apple is breaking its own records again, this time under the leadership of its new CEO – Tim Cook, the successor of Steve Jobs. It even turns out that the company is more successful than what the greatest optimists predicted.

It was announced that Apple had achieved sales of $46.3 billion for its last quarter, which ended on the last day of December. Analysts had been expecting much smaller numbers – something more like $38.9 billion, according to data from Thomson Reuters. But the result of Apple’s efforts is about twice as many sales as of last year. The company sold 37 million iPhones for that period and also much more iPads and Macs than it was expected.

Apple reported net profit of $13.1 billion, with $6 billion more than it was a year ago. “We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs. Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline” stated Tim Cook.

The huge amount of iPhones Apple sold for the last quarter – 37 million, stands for 128% increase since last year. Similar success has been reached by the iPads, sold in about 15.4 million units, that’s about 111% increase. Even Mac computers sales reached a healthy growth of 26% or 5.2 million devices.

Even so, according to Tim Cook, the production for this quarter had been troubled, because of the floods in Thailand, which caused shortage of some devices’ components and the company couldn’t produce as many iPhones as it had planned.

As reason for these incredible sales Apple’s CEO Tim Cook mentioned the highly favorable reception of the iPhone 4S, along with the launch of Siri and iOS 5. The next product, whose sales increased remarkably for that period was the iPad. This is not surprising, since only the iPad and iPhone products are accountable for 72% of the company’s profit for the last quarter. There’s been a slower growth in the revenue from other Apple products, too. Only the the iPod had a decrease in sales, since it has most of its functions built-in in the other Apple products.

The question is if this unexpected and unstoppable growth is going to continue much longer. Will Cook efficiently replace Steve Jobs, will he stimulate innovation and invest in new products with the same success, or is he too cautious? Since Apple has just a few highly profitable products, they should never fall behind the competition, which is getting stronger and bigger.

5 Useful YouTube Tips No comments yet

1.Try the Feather and HTML 5 mode:
Click on “Try something new!” at the bottom of the YouTube page. There you can find and try out many of the new features in YouTube.

Both the HTML5 and the Feather version are still in development, so some of the videos may not play with them. HTML5 is supported by Google Chrome, Firefox 4, Higher Internet Explorer versions with installed Google Chrome Frame, Safari 4 + and Opera 10.6 +. You can use HTML5 for most of the videos if you don’t have a Flash player. Feather is obviously the lighter version of YouTube, designed to load the videos much faster, especially if you have a slow internet connection. It has a simpler look, doesn’t load all recommended videos and limits some features.

2. Comments search:
You can now search for a specific word or term in the comments on YouTube.

3. Link to a particular moment of the video:
To link to a precise point in the video you want to share right-click at the point you want to highlight and then click on “Copy video URL at current time.”

4. Manage your history, likes and playlists:
Sign in and click on your account/username icon. A menu will show up and from there you can view your entire viewing history, likes, favorites and videos you’ve uploaded. From there you can remove videos you’ve watched or make them public; you can add them to your playlists or to the “Watch later” list.

5. Search tips:
Not only the plus and minus signs work in YouTube search. You can also use  ”intitle:keyword” to search only for videos with the word in their titles. Besides, simply writing “HD” or “3D” in your title will bring out high-quality or 3D content. You can specify the timing and freshness of the videos by writing “today”, “this week” etc. “Long” and “short” will return results for videos under 4 minutes or much longer videos. You can as well search for “channel” or “playlist”. In order the search to work you have to separate the terms with commas like this: “panda, playlist, today”.