Mac OS Ken: 04.26.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Business Insider Figures iPhone Alone More Profitable Than ExxonMobil Business Insider: Apple Profit Now Bigger Than Google Revenue Fortune: Indie-Analysts Take Top Eight Spots for Apple 2Q FY2012 Estimates Fortune: A Raft on Analysts up Apple Targets Apple Earnings Report Leads Shares to Close Back Above $600 on Wednesday Sprint Sells 1.5 Million iPhones in Most Recent Quarter, 660,000 to New Customers Sprint CEO Says Carrier Will Keep Unlimited Data for Next iPhone Even If It’s a 4G/LTE Device HTC Sees Profits Drop Over 70-Percent, Says iPhone 4S Largely to Blame Apple Sets WWDC Dates for June 11-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco WWDC Sells Out in Two Early Morning Hours The Mysterious Misfire of WWDCAlerts.com Developers from Big Nerd Ranch and Panic See WWDC Tickets Cancelled for Unknown Reasons Nominations Open for Apple Design Awards at Kaspersky Founder and CEO Says Apple is Years Behind Microsoft in Terms of Security Microsoft Puts Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 Back Up for Download

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:07.0	Math and After-Math, the short sad life of W.W. D.C. ticket availability, and a security
0:17.8	guy says Max are totally insecure.
0:21.6	It's Thursday, April 26, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacO
0:27.2	S. Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to MacoS Ken Day 6.
0:36.0	More information is available at MacoS Ken.com.
0:40.0	This show is also supported by the MacoS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	Last year, Apple and ExxonMobil spent a good bit of the summer battling for first as the most profitable company in the world.
1:00.0	And we've pretty much been done with that for a while now. It's Apple.
1:03.2	Business Insider says Apple is on track to generate between 45 and 50 billion dollars of profit this year.
1:10.3	And while they don't say how much they expect ExxonMobil to generate, they do point out that the
1:14.9	oil giant generated about $30 billion of profit last year.
1:20.2	Even if they make more this year, they're probably not going to beat Apple.
1:24.2	All of that was already known.
1:26.1	But says Business Insider, here's what you might not have known.
1:29.2	Apple's iPhone business alone is likely more profitable than any other company in the world.
1:36.4	Emphasis unlikely.
1:37.9	According to the piece, Apple's iPhone business is currently generating about $100 billion
1:42.4	a year, assuming a profit margin of 30
1:45.5	to 35 percent. It seems likely that the iPhone business is generating about $35 billion of profit
1:51.7	per year, and that makes it more profitable than ExxonMobil.
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