Apple’s January-March quarter included record sales and profit numbers. They sold nearly 3 million Macs, almost 9 million iPhones and almost 11 million iPods. Profits were up 90 percent at $13.5 billion from the same quarter last year. This was Apple’s best non-holiday season quarter ever. The stock surged on the news.
But not everything at Apple headquarters was good news for the company and an engineer lost a prototype of the next iPhone model at a bar nearby. The device found its way into the hands of editors at Gizmodo and was dissected and analyzed for the whole world to see. It features a second front-facing camera, a flash for the rear-facing camera, a higher-resolution screen, and a larger battery. Apple asked for the phone to be returned, and Gizmodo replied.
The iPad 3G version now has a shipping date. It will begin to go out to customers who pre-ordered it on April 30. It will be available in Apple Stores on the same date at 5 p.m.
The war between Adobe and Apple continues, with Adobe announcing that it is giving up on a feature of Flash CS5 that allows developers to create native iPhone apps.
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