We thought it would be released on Sunday, but it didn’t happen. The latest version of PwnageTool, long rumored to be able to jailbreak a variety of iOS devices including the iPad and the new Apple TV, is still nowhere to be downloaded, but screenshots are starting to pop up. Read more
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New PwnageTool Confirmed To Jailbreak iPad and Apple TV [Screenshot]
60 Percent Of Apple’s Sales Come From New Products
Oh, would you look at that. With blockbuster iPhone sales and more than $20 billion revenue in the last quarter, you would expect Apple to be happy about its latest product line. But the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to represent 60 percent of Apple’s sales?
As Horace Dediu of Asymco noticed, 60 percent of Apple’s sales come from products that did not exist three years ago. I guess that’s a good definition of “reinventing a company”.
Android Chief First Tweet Sums Up Google’s Problems
At yesterday’s earnings call, Apple CEO Steve Jobs went on a 5-minute epic rant about Google and Android as a platform competing with iOS and the App Store. In his own words, “open” vs. “close” is more “integrated” vs. “fragmented”. Jobs is not buying Google’s openness claims, and he’s got the numbers to back up his theory. Read more
Steve Jobs’ Epic Google Rant, The Tape
Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at Apple’s Q4 earnings call and went on a 5-minutes long rant about Google’s “closed” Android platform, tablet competitors, Apple’s own strategy focused on developing products that “just work”.
For those who missed the text version, here’s the audio embedded in a Youtube video. Must-listen. Read more
At Apple’s Q4 Earnings Call, Steve Jobs’ Rant Sets The Record Straight
So here’s what happened: at the Q4 earnings call Steve Jobs grabbed the mic and started talking. No one expected Steve Jobs to be available at the conference, because Steve Jobs doesn’t usually attend earnings calls.
But it happened, and he went on a 10-minute long “rant” where he set the record straight about overly discussed arguments such as Google’s openness, Android’s sales numbers, Apple’s App Store and closed system and the rumored 7-inch iPad form factor. He’s still taking questions at the moment of writing this. Read more
Notes from Apple Q4 Earnings Call
Steve Jobs: We still have a few surprises left for 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in the press release for Apple Q4 financial results:
We are blown away to report over $20 billion in revenue and over $4 billion in after-tax earnings—both all-time records for Apple. iPhone sales of 14.1 million were up 91 percent year-over-year, handily beating the 12.1 million phones RIM sold in their most recent quarter. We still have a few surprises left for the remainder of this calendar year.
A few surprises left might mean a new MacBook Air on Wednesday, or a CDMA iPhone (that runs on Verizon) announcement before the end of the year. Or maybe something entirely new, such a 7-inch iPad model? What about a complete MobileMe revamp?
Truth is, with $20 billion revenue in the last quarter they can pull out whatever surprise they want.
Apple Q4 2010 Financial Results - $20.34 Billion Revenue, 14 Million iPhones Sold
Apple just reported their Q4 2010 financial results. 3.89 million Macs sold, 14.1 million iPhones (above any expectation), 4.19 million iPads.
Check out the full press release and financial report below.
Advertising Age: Apple “Marketer of the Decade”
Advertising Age announced earlier today that it has named Apple “Marketer of the Decade”, a prestigious award to a company that ”influences business models across all media and creates exceptionally brand-loyal consumer base”.
It seems fitting: Apple kicked off the aughts in 2001 with the iPod, an electronic device that went on to disrupt and forever change the music industry; then mid-decade it dropped the iPhone, a mobile device that changed the mobile-phone industry and added the word “apps” to the English vocabulary; and finally, in 2010 it debuted the iPad, a computing device with the potential to disrupt the media, publishing, entertainment and computing industries.
Yes, it has been a golden decade for Apple. And while one can certainly argue that its influence has been overstated – it is No. 56 on the list of Fortune 500 by revenue – Apple’s influence on business models across industries from music and computing to entertainment and advertising, along with its impact on popular culture, media and, of course, marketing, has been indelible.
Apple and its agency, Omnicom Group’s TBWA, make a great case study on the benefits of long-term agency-client relationships. The two have been together since the iconic “1984” Super Bowl spot, although the agency was off the account from 1986 until 1997, which is almost identical to the years CEO Steve Jobs was absent from Apple (1985-1997).