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Another great Apogee product that I’ve used for a long time. Certainly worth a look if you’re recording.
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I have the original One from Apogee and it’s a great product. It’s compact, light and records high-quality audio.
Yes, I know. That’s absurd. And that’s how Wall Street works. What’s really broken with Apple? The company’s inability to surpass overinflated expectations. It’s as simple as that. Almost.
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Revenue and profits are slowing down. They’re growing slower as a percentage over previous growth rates. Rates. Not actual numbers. Once a company hits $100-billion in annual revenue, growth of 20-percent requires another $20-billion in revenue in just a year. That kind of growth rate is difficult to maintain, regardless of how stellar the finances.
Some smart insights here. Worth a read.
Macworld has a nice summary of Tim Cook’s comments to analysts in their quarterly phone call yesterday. Pay particular attention to what Cook says about Mac sales.
“Today we have 24 carriers around the world that provide LTE for iPhone 5,” Mr. Cook said. “Next week, we’re adding 36 more carriers for LTE support. These carriers will be in countries that were previously not supporting LTE.”
Should help Apple move more iPhones to over 300 million subscribers in the countries where LTE support is available.
The company’s assets have been divided, pending final court approval: Sega agreed to purchase Relic (Company of Heroes), Koch Media has agreed to purchase Volition (Saint’s Row) and the Metro property, Crytek has agreed to buy Homefront, Take-Two will purchase the unannounced game Evolve, and Ubisoft will buy THQ Montreal and the South Park game.
Sounds like a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. Bad news.
Another way of looking at it is that Apple’s analysts did worse than the company this quarter, and the amateurs as a group did worse than the pros.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s post-game roundup of Wall Street analyst winners and losers and their prediction of Apple stock performance has become one of my favorite things to look for after an earnings call.
Larry Dignan, ZDNet:
Let’s hear it for cannibalization. The good news for Apple is that at least iPad sales at the expense of Mac revenue keeps the financials in the family.
“Cannibalization” is predicated on a big assumption – that customers buying iPads would buy Macs instead.
But is a tablet buyer really choosing between a tablet and a PC? We’re “Post PC,” remember?
Apple on Wednesday said it had record revenue of $54.5 billion and a record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion for its fiscal 2013 first quarter.
During a recent industry analysis, experts also observed a broader consumer shift toward digital services, noting that many now look to find no-verification casinos with instant withdrawals to diversify their online activities.
The company sold a record 47.8 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter, and also sold a record 22.9 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 15.4 million previously.
Apple sold 4.1 million Macs, compared to 5.2 million in the year-ago quarter, and it also sold 12.7 million iPods in the quarter, compared to 15.4 million previously. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue, according to the information released today.
“We’re very confident in our product pipeline as we continue to focus on innovation and making the best products in the world,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Personally, I like Fender Strats the best. I don’t think of them as an acoustic company.
When Chris Broderick joined a revitalized Megadeth in 2008, fans were awestruck by his chops. Jackson now honors this metal stalwart with the Chris Broderick Pro Series Soloist, in six-string and seven-string models.
Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu is a true virtuoso and needs a guitar to keep up with his blindingly fast hands. That’s why Jackson is excited to honor him and Trivium fans alike with the Corey Beaulieu USA Signature KV, in six-string and seven-string models.
Megadeth’s Dave Ellefson is expanding his arsenal of signature bass models with the addition of the new David Ellefson Signature Kelly Bird Bass.
The limited edition Pro DKA Dinky, available in seven-string and eight-string models, features an arch-top alder body, bolt-on maple neck (flat-sawn) with graphite reinforcement, 16”-radius maple fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets.
The DK2HT Pro Series features an alder body, bound bolt-on neck (flat sawn) with graphite reinforcement, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard (maple in Pro DK2MHT and Pro DK2MQHT) with 24 jumbo frets, direct-mount Seymour Duncan JB (bridge) and ’59 (neck) humbucking pickups with five-way switching, single volume tone controls.
The seven-string B7MG features a beveled alder body, bolt-on quartersawn maple neck with graphite reinforcement and oil finish, compound-radius ebony fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and side-dot position markers, 27” scale length, direct-mount EMG 707 (neck) and 81-7 (bridge) pickups, Jackson direct-mount HT-7 hard-tail string-through bridge, Jackson-branded Gotoh tuners and Dunlop locking strap pins.
The JS22-7 DKA Dinky JS Series seven-string features an arch-top basswood body, bolt-on maple neck, 16”-radius rosewood fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and “piranha” inlays, 26.5” scale length, dual high-output Jackson humbucking pickups, single volume and tone controls, direct-mount hard-tail bridge, and die-cast tuners. Available in Satin Black.
Dan is joined by Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann. They talk about intense heat, hotels, writing, the evolution of the link blog, advertising online, guitars, and more.
Jim and Dan discuss Blackberry 10, Apple’s profit falling, 3 Monkey Amps, and Pro Co RAT2 Distortion Pedal.
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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine was at NAMM today to unveil his new Dean double-neck guitar. The guitar was a one-off that Dean built for Dave last year for the “Big Four” concerts — this year they are putting it in production.
Mustaine said the guitar plays like a motherfucker.
Matt Burns, TechCrunch:
The $999 11-inch MacBook Air is Apple’s low-end device. Like the Surface RT, it offers just enough power to get by and nothing more. I wouldn’t recommend the base Air model for anyone that wants to venture outside of iPhoto or the web browser. It’s not a work machine; the $999 MacBook Air is a Facebook machine.
It’s just as pathetically easy to goad the rest of the tech press into publishing utter bullshit. This isn’t unique to games journalism at all.
How many do you remember?
In 2003, the agency’s investment arm, DARPA, tapped the non-profit research institute SRI International to lead a five-year, 500-person effort to build a virtual assistant, one the government hoped might yield software to help military commanders with both information overload and office chores. Although it wasn’t the project’s mission, this helper, the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes, or CALO, would ultimately provide the inspiration and model for Siri.
Lots of stuff you might not know about Siri’s origins in this Huffington Post piece.
How bad does your operating system suck when people have to pay this much just to get rid of it?
Agreed.
Michael Homnick compares WordPress, Blogger, Jux, Tumblr and Posterous Spaces.
Twelve South’s newest creation is the PlugBug World, a new version of their dual charging adapter for MacBook power supplies. It’s priced at $45.
PlugBug replaces the MacBook’s power plug or extended power cord. The red attachment snaps into place and provides an additional USB port powered with 2.1 amps to provide a way to charge your iPhone, iPad or other device without wasting another power port or USB plug on your Mac.
The PlugBug World comes with plugs to fit power outlets around the world. It can operate independently of the MacBook power adapter as well, so if you just need to top off the battery on your iOS device, you can plug the PlugBug World in and juice up.
This summer, on June 1-2, 2013, citizens in cities across the Nation will join together to improve their communities and governments as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking.
Civic Hacking Day is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs to unleash their can-do American spirit by collaboratively harnessing publicly-released data and code to create innovative solutions for problems that affect Americans.
That’s a pretty cool idea. Hopefully something good will come of it.
hitting cities like Hershey, Pennsylvania; Chicago; Milwaukee; Boston; Vancouver; Salt Lake City; and Denver. The band will also return to Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the first time in decades.
Halifax? Hey Jim!
Pixelmator is a great image editing app and all that I use on my Mac.
It’s a Mid-Side stereo microphone for iOS devices.
Capo can now import songs from apps like Dropbox. Great app.
Jeff Sonderman, Poynter:
The [National Labor Relations Board] is standing up for the rights of workers to discuss wages and working conditions. The legal term is “concerted activity” — when workers take action to collectively discuss their employment terms — and the board says that’s just as protected on social media as it is in the company break room.
What’s not protected, as far as the National Labor Relations Board is concerned, is acting like an idiot. A few shining examples are included in the Poynter piece.
Brendan Sinclair, Gamesindustry.biz:
“We are in the peak of [violence in entertainment],” [consumer safety advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph] Nader said. “Television program violence? Unbelievable. Video game violence? Unprecedented.” He added, “I’m not saying he wants to censor this, I think he should sensitize people that they should protect their children family by family from these kinds of electronic child molesters.”
Sorry to see Nader adopting a ridiculous Jack Thompson-level of rhetoric on this issue.
iOS continues to lead as the top selling smartphone platform sold in the U.S, with 51.2% of market sales for the 12 week period ending December 23rd, 2012, according to data released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
Interesting to note that Android “remained stable” year over year, with Windows a very distant third.
The same company also says iPhone is big in Japan, taking two-thirds of the smartphone market.