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Apple's earnings report came out just a few minutes ago, and the conference call is coming right up! Join us for the liveblog below as we follow along through the conference call.

TUAWTUAW Liveblog: Apple FY09 Q4 earnings call originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steven Troughton-Smith, the developer of both Stack and Orbit, is now in the process of developing a new multi-tasking application. According to Troughton-Smith, the app basically adds a GUI to what the Backgrounder application already does. There is not a ton of info about the app however, he did post a screenshot and it looks pretty cool.

Filed under: Apple Financial

Apple has just released the fourth quarter earnings report for fiscal year 2009. The report can be read here and will be discussed in detail on the upcoming earnings call with Wall Street analysts.

The big news? Apple once again beat the Street with $1.82 EPS against an expectation of $1.65 EPS! More good news will be coming soon.

Also big news:
"Apple sold 3.05 million Macintosh(R) computers during the quarter, representing a 17 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing seven percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. "

Be sure to join in on our liveblog of the call, coming up at about 4:50 PM EDT today.

TUAWApple press release: FY 09 Q4 earnings originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Grazie a A2DP Enabler possiamo finalmente abilitare il profilo bluetooth A2DP anche su iPhone 2G

Tutto quello che bisogna fare è scaricare il tweak da Cydia (repo http://apt.dmytro.me) e colelgare poi il proprio dispositivo bluettoh per sfruttare l’A2DP.

Grazie Luca per la segnalazione

Following Apple’s announcement of the most profitable quarter yet with sales of more Macs and iPhones than any previous quarter the company held a conference call to discuss the results further. Here are some notes of interest from the conference call:

• Apple began and ended the quarter with between 3-4 weeks of Mac channel inventory
• 50 percent of iPod buyers are buying their first iPod
• iPod touch sales up 100% year over year
• iTunes remains worlds largest music retailer, available in 23 countries
• Apple to expand iPhone carrier relationships in the UK and Canada
• iPhone in China later this quarter
• Sales of iPhones worth $4.5 billion during the quarter
• Apple retail stores had a record quarter, $1.78 billion in revenue
• Fifteen new stores open in quarter, total now 273
• Average stores revenue was $7.1 million, down from $7.6 million last year
• 45.9 million visitors to stores, compared to 42.7 million last year
• Tax rate was 26% during Q4
• $34 billion in cash at the end of the quarter, an increase of $2.9 billion from last quarter
• $3.1 billion in cash flow during quarter
• Looking forward: revenues between $11.3 billion and $11.6 billion, gross margin of 34%, tax rate to be about 30%. EPS between $1.70-$1.78. 18% net income growth expected.
• iPhone in China October 30th with China Unicom
• iPhone channel inventory, 2.1 million in the channel. Would like more.
• iPhone 3GS uptake phenomenal, took Apple by surprise
• 21 million iPhones during the fiscal year
• Portable Mac shipments up 35% year over year
• Snow Leopard sales double those of Leopard in first five weeks
• Air freight costs set to increase, Cook would not mention which product was involved but will be “an abnormal sequential increase”
• Mac sales benefitted from 50,000 unit order in state of Maine
• iPhone ships in 80 countries so far, iPhone 3GS available in 64, should be 80 by quarters end.
• Over 350 education institutions have approved iPhones for staff and students
• iPhone sell-through increased 38% year-over-year
• Conference call over

There has been some talk lately of a Google Wave iPhone application (not the current web app) titled Waveboard. Waveboard is being developed by Dirk Holtwick and is, “a client software for Google Wave for both Mac OS X 10.5+ and iPhone OS 3.0+.”

Currently, the app has been submitted to the App Store (a few times) and is waiting approval. Below is a video demo of Waveboard for the iPhone. You can follow the progress of the app on the developer’s blog – www.getwaveboard.com

Demo Video:

Gli sviluppatori di Pocket God hanno appena fatto sapere di aver inviato il nuovo aggiornamento ad Apple. Si tratta dell’Episodio 28, incentrato sul tema di Halloween e non hanno nemmeno nascosto che l’in-app purchase ha portato dei risultati positivi e del tutto inaspettati in termini di guadagni.

Per quanto riguarda l’aggiornamento verrà aggiunto un grosso ragno all’interno dell’isola del cimitero e potremo combatterlo in modalità singola o in “challenge” contro gli amici. Di conseguenza verrà aggiunta una nuova classifica e dovremo cercare di battere il ragno con il minor numero di lanci possibile impiegando pochissimi secondi. All’inizio i ragni saranno piccoli e moriranno subito ma alcuni saranno davvero grossi e risulterà molto difficile superare la sfida.

Verranno anche aggiunti nuovi download a pagamento (sempre a tema halloween) e dal punto di vista tecnico l’applicazione è stata notevolmente migliorata ed ottimizzata, dato che richiede circa il 10% di RAM in meno. Gli update tecnici però, non si fermeranno qui, dato che il prossimo aggiornamento sarà dedicato proprio ad un’aumento della velocità, con la risoluzione di alcuni bump in memoria.

Come sempre, quando l’episodio 28 sarà disponibile per il download, ve lo faremo sapere.

Grazie AndyTheJoker

Filed under: Apple, iPhone

Is AT&T holding back the iPhone's sales potential? That's the conclusion of analysts at Piper Jaffray. In a report issued today, the firm says Apple is likely to go with multiple carriers, as the company is already doing in other world markets like France and the U.K.

To make the point, the report cites iPhone sales in France, where Apple's share of the smartphone market zoomed to 40% from 15% since Orange lost the exclusive there.

What does that mean for AT&T? If Apple finds additional partners, AT&T could lose a hefty chunk of customers who haven't been too thrilled with the way the communications giant has performed with the iPhone. There is still no tethering, MMS took a long time to roll out, and there is a continuing complaint of dropped calls from every corner of the country.

One wonders what is going on inside Verizon. The best-regarded US cell carrier for coverage & network quality is the subject of many rumors about the iPhone being offered, and others rumors of the mythical Apple tablet coming to Verizon. It's all especially interesting as Verizon has been bashing the iPhone in a series of TV ads hyping the upcoming Droid from Motorola and Google. Doesn't seem like Verizon is warming up the relationship.

It will be an interesting next few months as competition increases; partners may or may nor change, and Apple will be looking to increase market share for one of the hottest phones on the market.

[via Business Week]

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