Halo Effect: Apple's seductive horse in Microsoft's Troy

What happens when those PC come up for renewal? Millions of people who have never previously considered a Mac will certainly replace their PCs with an Apple product. I have strong anecdotal evidence that this is happening already.

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Apple's phenomenal results in perspective

Overnight, those tremendous results from Apple are beginning to sink in. Apple is today the world’s most valuable company and yet continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. The competition is being blown out of the water. MG Siegler puts the figures into perspective.

Astounding earnings from Apple: Stock price up $30 in after-hours trading

Apple’s first-quarter results announced this evening have blown away Wall Street’s estimates. The company recorded a stonking and unexpected $46.3 billion revenues and earnings per share of $13.87. Both iPad sales (15.4 million) and iPhones (37 million) comfortably exceeded even the wildest analyst projections. Even Mac sales remained extremely healthy at 5.3 million units.

According to Erick Schonfeld writing in TechCrunch, Apple’s growth in the quarter was astounding: “It has now sold 315 million cumulative iOS devices.” Apple ended the quarter with $97 billion in cash.

Apple's packaging room does not surprise

Contrast Apple’s excellence with the packaging of most modern gadgets and gizmos. It seems that everything has to be enclosed in a plastic strongbox that defies scissors or hammers and risks the new owner’s life and limb. I detest these user-unfriendly monstrosities. They should be banned and everyone should be shamed into following Apple’s lead.

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Only one LunaTik in the House of Lords?

Lord Young of Graffam, the bow-tie wearing former Trade and Industry Secretary, who is 80 next month, has rigged up his own wireless network and Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad in his No 10 office. Recently he has taken to wearing on his wrist an iPod Nano converted into a watch, using a special strap purchased from a crowd-funded inventor’s website.

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