The Apple store is now live again and a new MacBook Air is available to buy. OS X Lion is now available to buy too. If you have multiple Mac’s you only need to pay the £20.99 once as you are granted a licence for multiple devices.
It’s quite an important day for Apple today as it releases its latest quarterly figures and as many has suspected – it’s been a record breaking quarter for the Cupertino-based company.
The firm brought in a eye-watering $28.57 billion in sales revenue in the quarter ending June 25, 2011, much to the surprise of analysts’ estimates which were themselves pretty high. The results are pretty staggering by anyone’s measure.
Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads in the last three months, according the manufacturer’s Q3 earnings report.
Even Steve Jobs was elated, according, he said: "We're thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent."
"Right now, we're very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall," the statement added.
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated that the company is set for an even busier Autumn with the first proper hint that the new iPhone is indeed coming this Autumn – most likely September.
"As we announced at WWDC, we have a lot going on in the fall with the introduction of iOS 5 and iCloud. We also have a future product transition that we're not going to talk about today, and these things will impact our September quarter.
In other news today the long-established ritual of the yellow sticky has appeared on the Apple website – paving the way for the release of the OS X Lion and possibly the new MacBook Air. We’ll know more later when the site has been restored.
OS X Lion is expected to bring all the best bits of Apple’s mobile operating system iOS with the existing Snow Leopard OSX together in a new desktop operating system – you can expect lots of touch gestures and simplified interfaces, and OS X Lion Apps. As soon we get a our copy downloaded and loaded we'll let you know what you can expect.