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[Sethimus]

also mir reicht des normale macbook grad gut, noch keine "maengel" gefunden die ich jetzt irgendwie auf die hardware schieben koennt.

[P. Stylez]

Offizielle Verkaufszahlen für's zweite Quartal 2010:

Record March Quarter Revenue and Profit
iPhone Sales More Than Double

CUPERTINO, California—April 20, 2010—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple sold 2.94 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 8.75 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 131 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 10.89 million iPods during the quarter, representing a one percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

“We’re thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever, with revenues up 49 percent and profits up 90 percent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve launched our revolutionary new iPad and users are loving it, and we have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year.”

“Looking ahead to the third fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue in the range of about $13.0 billion to $13.4 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share in the range of about $2.28 to $2.39,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.

Apple will provide live streaming of its Q2 2010 financial results conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 20, 2010 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq210/. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.

Soviel zum Thema, dass Apple außerhalb des Weihnachtsquartals keine iPhones verkauft ^^

[P. Stylez]

interessant sind die gerüchte das apple arm kaufen will /public/style_emoticons/default/d.gif... das könnte noch sehr brisant werden /public/style_emoticons/default/d.gif...

Glaubst du da wirklich dran?

Ich glaub der FTC würde schneller an Steve Jobs Tür klopfen als er den Übernahmevertrag unterschreiben könnte

[janfleck.]

so mal gespannt wann mein macbook kommt..
hab heut nacht schon geträumt alle wären ausverkauft und die wartezeit wär mindestens 6 monate /public/style_emoticons/default/tot.gif...

ich warte jetzt schon 11 tage..vorrauss. liefertermin 3-4 mai -.-

[Kai.rockZ]

am 16.4 bestellt , (selbst konfiguriert)
am 26.4 wars da

normal sollte es am 29.4-3.5 kommen
wurde aber eines besseren überrascht

[P. Stylez]

Jobs meldet sich mal wieder persönlich zu Wort.

Thoughts On Flash

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

First, there’s “Open”.

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.

Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.

Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers.

Second, there’s the “full web”.

Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.

Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.

Third, there’s reliability, security and performance.

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?

Fourth, there’s battery life.

To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power. Many of the chips used in modern mobile devices contain a decoder called H.264 – an industry standard that is used in every Blu-ray DVD player and has been adopted by Apple, Google (YouTube), Vimeo, Netflix and many other companies.

Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.

When websites re-encode their videos using H.264, they can offer them without using Flash at all. They play perfectly in browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome without any plugins whatsoever, and look great on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Fifth, there’s Touch.

Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.

Sixth, the most important reason.

Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.

We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.

Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.

Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.

Conclusions.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

Steve Jobs
April, 2010

Quelle: http://www.apple.com...ughts-on-flash/

[o00o]

jo für mich eigentlich nix groß neues

spiegelt ja eigentlich im großen und ganzen den Gruber post von vor ein paar Wochen zu dem Thema wieder. Finds halt krass das es so viele nicht raffen wollen das sich Apple nicht von Adobe abhängig machen wird. Ich finde auch die Möglichkeiten bei der App Entwicklung 3-4 Generationen weiter als bei Flash. Flash würde nur davon profitieren das sie sich quasi Apples Fortschritt auf die Fahne schreiben können und Apple hätte nur Nachteile und viele schlecht gecodete Apps von Leuten die zu blöd sind es ohne die tools von Adobe zu machen

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[janfleck.]

am 16.4 bestellt , (selbst konfiguriert)
am 26.4 wars da /public/style_emoticons/default/).gif...

normal sollte es am 29.4-3.5 kommen
wurde aber eines besseren überrascht /public/style_emoticons/default/).gif...

es ist da
sitz grad in ner vorlesung..funktioniert alles super, aber ich glaub ich brauch nochn paar wochen bis ich da komplett durchblicke^^

[Kai.rockZ]

ja ,es ist aber ne postive umstellung

am geilsten find ich ja bisher (nach 4 Tagen ) , Firefox , VLC , Trillian Astra
runtergeladen, fertig, geht

noch nichmal installieren . der Hammer

vllt endeckt ich noch viele andere geile Sachen

[Sethimus]

ja ,es ist aber ne postive umstellung

am geilsten find ich ja bisher (nach 4 Tagen ) , Firefox , VLC , Trillian Astra
runtergeladen, fertig, geht

noch nichmal installieren . der Hammer

vllt endeckt ich noch viele andere geile Sachen /public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif...

mach mit mozbackup ne sicherung von deinem windows firefox profil und du kannst deine ganzen einstellungen, browserhistorie, plugins etc alles problemlos ruebernehmen, erleichtert den umstieg ungemeint

[janfleck.]

irgendwie hab ichs in nur 8 stunden geschafft probleme mit dem ding zu kriegen.. ableton installiert..alles klar
Soundkarte (dmx 6fire) installiert, neustart. puff hängengeblieben, bild eingefroren...wollte dann wieder hochfahren, jetzt is er seit 5 min im hochfahrbild

[korteks]

[Serial-K]

http://www.aptgetupd...t-os-x-support/

der download ist suuuper langsam

[Roman001]

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[ExecutoR]

irgentwie was wahres dran

[tec-szene]

Falscher Thread

Dieser Beitrag wurde von tec-szene bearbeitet: 03. Mai. 2010 - 21:45 Uhr

[P. Stylez]

Roman, hast du nicht noch irgendwas Wichtiges zu benchmarken?

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[Roman001]

Roman, hast du nicht noch irgendwas Wichtiges zu benchmarken? /public/style_emoticons/default/hello.gi...

weder am auto noch am PC seit "längerem" was rumgeschraubt

aber so ein X6 wär verlockend

wenn man den medien trauen darf, kehrt bei Apple aber e in absehbarer zeit AMD ein

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[TechMac]

http://www.abload.de/img/rdcute5ti.jpg

hey beleidige nicht den führer!

[Roman001]

[P. Stylez]

http://www.reuters.c...321150720100503

/public/style_emoticons/default/michi.gi...

Section 3.1.1 in der neuen Developer Licence war die beste Entscheidung, die Apple jemals getroffen hat

Da kommt Adobe mit seinem halb-garen Flash-Cross-Compiler Tools um die Ecke und will durch die Hintertür ein Scheibchen vom AppStore-Kuchen abhaben? Am Arsch

[faeb]

Roman, hast du nicht noch irgendwas Wichtiges zu benchmarken? /public/style_emoticons/default/hello.gi...

weder am auto noch am PC seit "längerem" was rumgeschraubt /public/style_emoticons/default/noidea.g...

aber so ein X6 wär verlockend /public/style_emoticons/default/fingerda...

wenn man den medien trauen darf, kehrt bei Apple aber e in absehbarer zeit AMD ein

ja geil, dann wirst du ja demnächst auch zum apple "fanboy" willkommen in der familie

[MOT]

bald kommts /public/style_emoticons/default/woo.gif... /public/style_emoticons/default/woo.gif...
wie lang die brauchen um das zu schicken /public/style_emoticons/default/(.gif...

was haste dir denn schönes bestellt?

[tec-szene]

macbook is da /public/style_emoticons/default/woo.gif... /public/style_emoticons/default/woo.gif... also noch bei meiner mudda -.-
aber so kann ich mich seelisch und moralisch auf die auseinandersetzung vorbereiten

Was haste denn für eins geshoppt?