Following Apple’s iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Media event, Apple has provided developers with the Gold Master (GM) build of iOS 7. The build is available for iPhone 4 and later, iPad mini, iPad 2 and later, and the 5th-generation iPod touch.
iOS 7 Beta 1 Download Links
Apple has released iOS 7 Beta 1 with fully overhauled design.
NOTE: This is a beta version and intended for developers only, you can “update” (don’t do “restore”) to test on preferably a testing unit. Install it at your own risk.
Apple Q2 2013 Results: $43.6 Billion Revenue, 37.4 Million iPhones, 19.5 Million iPads Sold
Apple has published their Q2 2013 financial results for the quarter that ended on March 31st, 2013. The company posted revenue of $43.6 billion. The company sold 19.5 million iPads, 37.4 million iPhones, and just under 4 million Macs, earning a quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion. Overall, international sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,†said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software and services, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.
 The Company expects to utilize a total of $100 billion of cash under the expanded program by the end of calendar 2015. This represents a $55 billion increase to the program announced last year and translates to an average rate of $30 billion per year from the time of the first dividend payment in August 2012 through December 2015.
Decline in AAPL stock price over last quarters has been very frustrating, but Apple remains very strong, and Apple will continue to do what it does best
Our teams are working on new hardware, software, and services that we can’t wait to introduce this Fall and throughout 2014
My view continues to be that iPhone 5 has the absolute best display in the industry. We always strive to create the very best display for our customers. Some customer value large screen sizes. Others value other factors such as resolution, white balance, color, portability, clarity, compatibility with apps… Our competitors have made some significant trade offs in many areas in order to ship a larger display. We will not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade offs exist.
Apple Q1 2013 Results: $54.5 Billion Revenue, 47.8 Million iPhones, 22.9 Million iPads, 4.1 Million Macs
Apple has just posted their Q1 2013 financial results for the quarter that ended in December 2012. The company posted revenue of $54.5 billion ($13.81 per diluted share), with 22.9 million iPads, 47.8 million iPhones and 4.1 million Macs sold. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods. The company reported quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion.
We’re thrilled with record revenue of over $54 billion and sales of over 75 million iOS devices in a single quarter,†said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’re very confident in our product pipeline as we continue to focus on innovation and making the best products in the world.â€
“We’re pleased to have generated over $23 billion in cash flow from operations during the quarter,†said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “We established new all-time quarterly records for iPhone and iPad sales, significantly broadened our ecosystem, and generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever.
Compared to last year’s Q1, Apple sold a record 47.8 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter. It also sold a record 22.9 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago quarter. Macs fell short of consensus estimates at 4.1 million units, down from 5.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 12.7 million iPods in the quarter, compared to 15.4 million in the year-ago quarter.
– Tim Cook: We’ve sold well over half a billion iOS devices including a staggering 10 per second in the last quarter alone.
– 3.7 million iPhones per week, compared to 2.6 million per week year-over-year
– iPhone sales doubled year-over-year in China
– iPhone 5 in over 100 countries by end of December 2012, fastest iPhone rollout ever
– The App Store is now available in 155 countries
– 2 billion+ iMessages are sent per day
– Apple ended the quarter with 401 stores, 150 outside US
– Apple retail: $6.4 billion in revenue ($16 million per store)
– Notification Center sent more than 4 trillion notifications
– Game Center has 200 million registers users
– iMessages has sent roughly 450 billion iMessages—or about 2 billion per day
– App Store is at 40 billion downloads
– Apple sold 2 million Apple TVs during the quarter