Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on Oct. 23, 2001, nine years ago today
Fiscal quarters. Sources: Company reports, Piper Jaffray for iPod touch estimates.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Here are the stats:
Age: 9 years
Units sold: 278,545,000
Net sales: $47,833,000,000
Note the seasonal patterns of quarterly sales in the chart, with Sonic-the-Hedgehog-style Christmas spikes. Note also the major inflection points, when sales accelerated:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 23, 2010 11:26 AM ET
It looks like Android 2.3 should be happening in the coming weeks.
Phandroid posts a video of the Gingerbread man joining the ranks of the other Android builds joining Donut, Eclair, Froyo.
Today, it was revealed by a Google (GOOG) engineer that Gingerbread would likely be Android 2.3 leaving Honeycomb as a likely 3.0 build.
Some of the rumored new features in Android 2.3 is a full Google Voice VoIP client, native OS MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 22, 2010 7:49 PM ET
What are Steve Jobs' favorite adjectives? You can count along with CNNMoney producer Jason Sanchez in this heavily edited version of Wednesday's "Back to the Mac" event.
In truth, compared to past events, Jobs' performance Monday was relatively restrained.
For a compilation of Jobsisms that goes back to Apple's (AAPL) early years, and the famous "Boom!" video, see the YouTube links below the fold that reader Alex in Lutz, Florida, was MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 22, 2010 6:03 PM ET
The chip maker was gung-ho when the market looked small and the iPad was predicted to sell just OK. Now that it's booming, Intel says tablets are important, but not that important yet.
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One thing about Intel's strategy when it comes to tablets and its Atom family of mobile processors: it ain't what it used to be.
Even though Intel (INTC) reported strong third quarter results, analysts have speculated MORE
Shelley DuBois, writer-reporter - Oct 22, 2010 2:13 PM ET
There are probably a set of policies that allow ad targeting to succeed while also letting users control what is associated with their real identities...the stakes are high.
By Chris Dixon, contributor
Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers set to disappear in the next few years, the future of quality journalism is highly uncertain. MORE
Fortune - Oct 22, 2010 1:09 PM ET
There are certain truths emerging at Pop!Tech: Preserves make jungle cats unhappy -- and money does the same to fat cats.
Alan Rabinowitz at PopTech 2010 (Photo: PopTech)
Far and away, the Tiger Guy stole the show yesterday. He got a standing ovation from the 500 people crowded into the Opera House—the site of the annual Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine, where the digerati meet the socially conscious. Or maybe it's MORE
Josh Quittner - Oct 22, 2010 11:57 AM ET
As developers decide whether and how to support Microsoft's nascent mobile OS, some have found that creating augmented reality and video chat apps isn't possible, at least for now.
For Microsoft (MSFT), Windows Phone 7 represents an attempt at righting its serious fumbles in the mobile space. In recent years, as Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) introduced and aggressively updated iOS and Android, Microsoft's mobile OS fell further and further behind, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 22, 2010 10:44 AM ET
The online retailer's shares are valued at more than three times Apple's and more than two times Google's. And there's no reason why.
by Andy M. Zaky, contributor
Whenever a stock can potentially drop 50% and still be considered overvalued, that's when you know the stock is a bubble. Amazon (AMZN) far surpassed bubble territory ages ago but investors still continue to plunge billions of dollars into the company. If the MORE
Oct 22, 2010 10:31 AM ET
It appears that the networks are letting some content through to GoogleTV users.
Yesterday, GoogleTV users were greeted with messages that ABC, CBS and NBC would not work. This morning however, I had a look around and was able to watch an episode of 30 Rock on NBC as well as a few minutes of Talk (my threshold, not GoogleTV) and Medium on CBS. Disney-owned ABC and Hulu are still blocked, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Oct 22, 2010 9:26 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Photo: Google
ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their web sites from being viewable on the newly-launched Google TV. (IT World)
HP is finally releasing a tablet, the Windows 7-loaded MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow | 12,663.49 | -71.14 | -0.56% |
| Nasdaq | 2,812.82 | 7.54 | 0.27% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.83 | -2.60 | -0.20% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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