This exhibition is amazing, incredible and very interesting because it shows everything Jonathan Ives has ever designed for Apple. But not only all the products we love are there, there are also products from Dieter Rams in the exhibition, who obviously is one of the largest influences for Ives. Have a look at the product that looks like an iPod (but is 60 years old!) or loudspeakers that remind of the current iMac. Even the iPhone 4s “design-brother” (a 60 years old black radio) can be found there! Whoever can not be at the exhibition (it is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany) can now at least walk through the exhibition virtually.
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Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.3 percent compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 63 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
The Company sold 17.07 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 21 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.12 million iPads during the quarter, a 166 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 6.62 million iPods, a 27 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
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In this video, the guys at ElectronicsBreak tests the iPhone 4S vs. the Samsung Galaxy S II to see which of these devices survives a waist high and shoulder high drop. Video after the break!
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Apple today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14. In addition, more than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, in the first five days of its release, and more than 20 million customers have signed up for iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices. iPhone 4S is available today in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK, and will be available in 22 more countries on October 28 and more than 70 countries by the end of the year.
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4001 post-its to honor Steve Jobs legacy with a portrait posted outside of the apple store Munich by Michi, Chris, Andreas, Kathi, Richard, Sandra, Jiannis, Fabian, Jenny and many others.
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Apple won a victory Thursday in its global patent battle with Samsung when a judge in Australia upheld a temporary injunction blocking the South Korean company from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the Pacific nation. Justice Annabelle Bennett ruled that the Samsung product couldn’t be sold in Australia if it used features such as touch-screen technology that Apple claims infringe patents used in its popular iPad tablet.
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