My Classic Setup
There is a kinship between Stories of Apple and Riccardo Mori’s System Folder blog.
We both share a mix of love and curiosity for the history of Apple and see it worthwile to delve and discover interesting tidbits of information and trivia to better understand the past, the present and even the future of the company at Infinite Loop.
This is why I answered Riccardo’s call to “vintage Mac geeks out there” to share their “corner, small desk, or other secondary space with their vintage setup”, i.e. nothing newer than Mac OS 9.
The questions he asks are the following:
What does your desk look like? [Photos here]
What is your vintage Mac setup?
Why are you using this setup?
What software do you use, and for what do you use it?
If you are using older Macs and feel like sharing a small piece of your Mac world please do write him at: rick [at] compunabula [dot] com
In the meantime I’d like to point out the first installment of “My Classic Setup”. It features the answers of yours truly, describing the two PowerBook G3s still actively in use in the house.
iPhone sales so far
Let’s take a look at Apple’s Quarterly financial Reports on the iPhone, straight out of their press releases archive (I’ve put numbers in bold):
June 2007: Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
iPhone is off to a great start—we hope to sell our one-millionth iPhone by the end of its first full quarter of sales—and our new product pipeline is very strong.
October 2007: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.
January 2008: Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 2,315,000.
April 2008: Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,703,000.
July 2008: Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone™ units sold were 717,000 compared to 270,000 in the year-ago-quarter.
October 2008: Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone units sold were 6,892,000 compared to 1,119,000 in the year-ago-quarter.
January 2009: Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Quarterly iPhone units sold were 4,363,000, representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
Let’s add those thousands: 1119+2315+1703+717+6892+4363
This brings us to a grand total of 17.109 millions of iPhones sold so far (at the end of January 2009) by Apple since its launch on 29 June, 2007.
Note: feel free to use this data analisys but please credit and link back to the Stories of Apple website.