Review: Apple Watch

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

Apple Watch offers a distillation of the iPhone’s hallmark features so users can opt to use their iPhones less. The Watch can make or take calls, receive notifications, as well as get mirrored push alerts just like the competitor’s devices, but it can also do so much more.

Apple’s newest product category represents various milestones for the company. It’s the first new product category to come out of Cupertino under Tim Cook as CEO. It is the first major project undertaken by Jony Ive without Steve Jobs, it is the company’s first wearable and it is seen as the necessary replacement to the diminishing iPod product line.

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Apple posts $7.5 billion net profit, sells 33.8 million iPhones, 14.1 million iPads and 4.6 million Macs

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple held its quarterly earnings call today to disclose financial results for fiscal 2013 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2013. Apple, which recently introduced new iPhones as well as iPads, had a quarterly revenue of $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.5 billion, or $8.26 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Which was expected.

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