Macs

Apple Products Appear Headed for Staples’ U.S. Shelves

Ina Fried in News on February 14 at 8:43 pm PT

Tweets from apparent Staples employees suggests that the office retailer will soon start carrying Apple products.

Seven Questions for Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 28, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT

Box.net’s CEO talks about the company’s new cloud-based data sharing service for enterprises and about the money he’s raising from the likes of Salesforce.com.

Second-Quarter Mac Sales Likely to Be Magical, Revolutionary

John Paczkowski in News on April 19, 2011 at 4:10 am PT

One more quick data point in advance of Apple’s second-quarter earnings report tomorrow: New estimates from the NPD Group show the company’s Mac business gathering considerable momentum.

Working With AirPrint

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on Apple’s AirPrint and a computer backup.

Counting Tablets, Apple Is Third in Global PC Sales

John Paczkowski in News on January 26, 2011 at 8:44 am PT

Stats on PC sales haven’t been including the iPad and other tablets, but research outfit Canalys says that’s old thinking and doesn’t accurately reflect Apple’s clout.

A Lot of iSales: Apple Sold 7.3 Million iPads, 16.2 Million iPhones in December Quarter

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 1:32 pm PT

Apple’s quarterly sales included more than 4 million Macs and 16 million iPhones, along with 19.45 million iPods and 7.33 million iPads.

Google Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 15, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Walt tests an early-stage version of Google’s Chrome OS for computers–an attempt to challenge the Microsoft-Apple duopoly. One drawback of the new operating system, due next summer, is having to give up familiar local programs and dwell in the cloud.

News Byte

The Outlook for Java on the Mac Perks Up

Voices in News on November 12, 2010 at 11:26 am PT

The future of Java development for the Mac OS, which was starting to look a little dicey recently, firmed up today with a new deal between Apple and Oracle. Under the agreement, Apple, which has always handled in-house development of the necessary virtual machine software for Java to run on Macs, will now turn those duties over to Oracle, starting with Java Standard Edition 7, and will contribute its Java work to OpenJDK, the open-source project under which Java is developed.

Apple Beats Earnings Estimates, but Low on Guidance, iPad Sales

Peter Kafka in Media on October 18, 2010 at 1:37 pm PT

First hit from Apple earnings: EPS of $4.64 and revenues of $20.34 billion. The consensus was $4.05 and $18.8 billion. The Street won’t like guidance, though: Apple is predicting Q1 EPS of $4.80, below the $5.04 analysts were looking for. They will also sputter a bit on this number: Apple sold 4.19 million iPads, and the consensus was 4.7 million. The good news: Apple sold a lot of iPhones–14.1 million.

Apple’s Mac Business Headed for Another Big Quarter

John Paczkowski in News on May 11, 2010 at 4:55 am PT

We haven’t even reached the midpoint of the June quarter, but it already looks like Apple’s financials for the period will be as strong, if not stronger, than they’ve been in quarters past. In a research note issued this morning, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says his checks suggest that sales for both the iPad and new MacBook Pro are strong.