John Kirk pulls them all together.

Amazon.com Inc. posted a loss of $274 million, or 60 cents per share, in the July-September period. That’s down from earnings of $63 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.

And this is what happens when you sell your shit at cost.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.0 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue. The Company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 14.0 million iPads during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.9 million Macs during the quarter, a 1 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

Carroll Shelby represents everything that is a muscle car. I want this.

Jon Russell for the Next Web:

Opera released its inaugural mobile advertising report in July and, three months down the line, the Norwegian browser maker is back with new insight. The Q3 2012 installment of the ‘State of Mobile Advertising’ report again finds Apple’s iOS to be the highest yielding platform on its advertising network, with Android slumping below RIM’s BlackBerry OS.

The thing that caught my eye was that Android wasn’t even as effective as Blackberry as an ad platform. I guess a lot of Android users have turned to ad blocking software.

Hosted by actor Kevin Bacon, TURN IT UP! includes interviews and performances with Les Paul, Slash, Robby Krieger (the Doors), Paul Stanley (KISS), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp), Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Albert Lee, Steve Lukather (Toto), and the legendary B.B. King–plus many more.

You can help get this movie released by supporting it on Indiegogo. One of the many perks is getting a guitar lesson from Robby Krieger, guitarist for The Doors. There are a lot of other cool things you can get with your contribution too.

I know the husband and wife team that put this movie together and was actually around for some of the shooting. This is a great project to support.

Well, there you go.

I’ll admit, I hate many of the fonts I see. It’s an important decision that escapes a lot of people.

Steve Ballmer talking to BBC News:

“Is it fair to say we’re going to do more hardware? Obviously we are… Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we’ll dive in.”

Great, just what we need.

A new Surface ad shows a guy jumping into a pool with his guitar. I’d throw every Surface ever made into the water before I harmed a single guitar.

Roger Cheng for CNET:

Apple, I thought we had a deal.I buy one of your products, and I’m guaranteed roughly a year feeling like I’ve got the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer. That’s primarily been your product cycle, and it’s worked out fairly well for everyone.

Apple didn’t make any such deal that I know about. They’ve always released products when they were ready to — this week is no different. If you ever get such a commitment from a company, I want to know about it.

Besides, your iPad works the same as it did before the announcement. Nothing got turned off, it functions perfectly.

[Via Shawn King]

Lawsuits and now the Department of Justice.

Apple’s Support Page just posted additional details about the Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012) Fusion Drive announced at Yesterday’s Apple Event.

As Apple says, “Presented as a single volume on your Mac, Fusion Drive automatically and dynamically moves frequently used files to Flash storage for quicker access, while infrequently used items move to the hard disk.”

There are some interesting tidbits such as you can only have one partition on the hard disk, third party utilities “may or may not” work (not unexpected) and some details about using Time Machine backups.

MarketWatch:

As soon as Apple unveiled the iPad mini Tuesday, the first thing many consumers did was sell their old iPads. Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch. Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle Tuesday – a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site. While some people are trading in first and second generation iPads, both Nextworth and Gazelle say that nearly 70% of their resellers are dumping the iPad 3.

How about you? Are you dumping your iPad for a newer model any time soon?

Classic.

Great idea.

I don’t believe Surface is perfect, but it’s a platform I can believe in. What I’m most excited about is to see what happens after a second or third rev of the design.

A very detailed and mostly positive review.

“The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category. The most affordable product we’ve made so far was $399 and people were choosing that over those devices,” Schiller said.“And now you can get a device that’s even more affordable at $329 in this great new form, and I think a lot of customers are going to be very excited about that,” Schiller said.

Translation: We are going to sell a metric shit ton of these things.

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I read a piece this morning by Ewan Spence at Forbes that just left me shaking my head in disbelief. Spence called the iPad mini “little more than a ‘me-too’ product” — I guess he forgot that Apple invented the modern tablet category and that every Google tablet is actually the “me too” product.

Spence made a point of saying that “in all of my time covering Apple launches,” alluding to his supposed expertise on the subject — all I can say is he couldn’t have been paying attention to Apple’s strategy over those launches.

What Apple is doing with the iPad is the exact same thing they did with the iPod. Release it and then come back and fill in the category with other products.

Oh and he also used the “this isn’t Steve Jobs Apple” line. Come on Ewan, at least be original.

Unlike Dave, the lampshade iMac was not my favorite. I like the new design.

Om Malik:

While rest of the crowd was taking time playing around with the iPad Mini, I spent my time with both the 27-inch and 21.5-inch models of the new iMac. And after 10 minutes, I knew I wanted one. First, the display screen, while not eligible for Apple’s Retina label, is drop-dead gorgeous. The color and the contrast is amazing. The dreaded reflections are almost nonexistent. You cannot resist the urge to reach out and touch the screen and flick things around much like on an iPad.

I agree completely. You just won’t believe your eyes when you see this new iMac.

John Brownlee for Cult of Mac notes that Apple’s tech specs page for the new iMac indicates that memory on the 21.5-inch iMac model is “configurable” up to 16GB, while the 27-inch model sports “four user-accessible SO-DIMM slots.”

An important consideration for anyone weighing the differences between the two machines. You’ll be stuck with what you get on the 21.5-inch model, while you’ll be able to expand the 27-inch iMac to up to 32GB as you need it.

Advertising Age:

You may never be able to try lembas — a fictional bread that Frodo subsisted on through part of his journey to Mordor in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — but Denny’s thinks it might have the next best thing. The company is about to roll out a Middle-Earth-inspired menu as part of a tie-in with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”Menu items include 11 breakfast, lunch and dinner items such as “Hobbit Hole Breakfast,” “Frodo’s Pot Roast Skillet,” “Gandalf’s Gobble Melt” and the “Build Your Own Hobbit Slam,” which includes limited-time items such as “Shire Sausage.”

I don’t eat at Denny’s now. I sure won’t be going in for this.

Apple has posted the streaming video file of today’s Special Event, in case you missed the live stream this morning. You can also download it from the iTunes Store in HD or in 1080p.