Good reality check: Just the facts baby!
Sales of Google’s Nexus One phone in the US have paled in comparison to the iPhone.
After 74 days, the Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. By that point in 2007, Apple announced it had sold a million iPhones.
A total flop.
Phillip Elmer-DeWitt reports the big news: Apple sells 50,000 iPads in two hours.
Compare this with the First week of Nexus One sales: 20,000.
The first pre-orders show an amazing interest for the new Apple iPad.
The US Apple store says:
iPad pre-order limit: two per customer.
If Saturday delivery is not available in your area, iPad will be delivered on April 5.
To pre-order go here.
UPDATE: Day 1 estimate: 120,000 iPads sold
Why Apple keeps cash and its short-term and long-term investments coming in at $40 billion?
Apple is holding onto cash to take “big, bold” risks, Jobs said at the company’s shareholder meeting today
One financial website says: perhaps because Apple wants to buy Nintendo!
Not a bad idea.
Big news from the Apple shareholders meeting today in Cupertino:
Very soon, 25 Apple stores in China.
iPhone now in 70 countries.
Apple is now the top notebook provider to education in US.
Elmer-DeWitt reported the best line of the meeting:
“Steve is as feisty as ever (suggesting that questioners come to an actual question) and in good humor! …Another shareholder then asked a long winded question about what Apple/Jobs fears, “What keeps you awake at night?” Jobs deadpans: “Shareholders meetings.” Audience erupts in laughter.”
After the annual meeting, the Apple shares are UP.
WOW!
A fascinating session at the Goldman Sachs technology conference with Tim Cook.
“We say no to good ideas every day.
We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.
The table each of you are sitting at today, you could probably put every product on it that Apple makes, yet Apple’s revenue last year was $40 billion.
I think any other company that could say that is an oil company.
That’s not just saying yes to the right products, it’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.
I think this is so ingrained in our company that this hubris you talk about that happens to companies that are successful and sole role in life is to get bigger, I can tell you the management team at Apple would never let that happen.
That’s not what we’re about. Small list of things to focus on.”
Brilliant!
As I said in my Tablemania blog a few weeks ago, Tim Cook is the perfect candidate to become the next Steve Jobs.
(Illustation by Luis Grañena for Tabletmania/lainformacion.com)
Downloads: about 100 songs per second.
The Apple iTunes store pened for business in April 2003, generating revenues of $520 million in the last quarter alone.
Today the store will reach the 10 billion song downloads mark.
Michael Wolf writes too much and thinks too little.
This cheap shot against Apple is a good example.
Apple is a private company.
In a free market.
So, they have freedom to chose the way to do business.
And, we, the customers, freedom to buy or not to buy the Apple products.
It’s clear that Steve Jobs is not Rupert Murdoch.
It’s clear that Apple is not News International.
It’s clear that Apple wants to have a consistent image in all its products.
Mr. Murdoch can publish The Sun and The Times, The New York Post and The New York Post at the same time in the same markets.
It’s his choice.
Yo can like it, or not, but he makes the decisions, and you and I the decisions to buy or not to buy his newspapers.
The editors of Times of London, have decided not have a page 3 girl.
And Publico in Spain not to make money with prostitution classifieds.
They have freedom.
And we must respect their decisions.
So, why Apple cannot decide to keep the iPhone applications clean of viruses, garbage, poor software and content that could upset parents or young customers?
They don’t want to become another Myspace full of crazy content.
So, what, Michael?
If you want page 3 girls buy The Sun, but not object to The Times.
If you want more girls, and some porno, you don’t need Apple.
It’s free in many websites.
In many magazines.
In many newspapers.
And, I am sure, in many smart phones.
But not in the Apple iPhone.
Steve Jobs rules, takes the shots and leads.
Is his company, not yours.
And you and I have many options.
Like Apple.
If you are leader, you don’t follow, you lead.
Today is Steve Jobs 55-year birthday.
Tomorrow is the annual Apple shareholders meeting in Cupertino.
Last year Steve was absent.
But tomorrow he will be there.
Expect some good news about the iPad.
A new great infographic from Column Five Media.
Brilliant!
