Apple breaks record with 74.5 million iPhones sold in previous quarter, revenue of $74.6 billion

Apple's iPhone models have broken sales record for the company with 74.5 million units sold in the previous quarter. Apple's financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 27, 2014. Apple posted a record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion and record quarterly net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share which is the largest in its history.

Apple shattered expectations from analysts and Wall Street who were 'only' expecting sales of 65 million units sold for the iPhone.

Aside from strong iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sales, Mac sales have also surged for Apple. “We’d like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal.” 

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Apple buys media analytics company Semetric

Apple just purchased media analytics company Semetric which owns Musicmetric tracking service. The company can track music sales, downloads, social networking stats for various artists and labels. Musicmetric also partnered with eminent streaming service Spotify to integrate data gathering for subscribers. Apple purchases a variety of smaller companies for various reasons, be it technology or personnel as well as integration into existing projects. The Semetric purchase is seen as a component to Beats Music, which Apple acquired last year and which many are expecting to be relaunched in 2015.

Source: The Guardian via  Macrumors

Selfish is a new iOS storytelling and sharing app

Selfish is a new interest-based platform storytelling app that gives the users easy but powerful controls over who sees what.

People love to share their important moments, the experiences that matter and the ongoing interests in their lives, but often that thread gets lost in today’s timelines,” says Moody Fayed, Cofounder and President of Selfish.  

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Apple stores now display art made with Apple products

Apple first launched it “Start Something New” campaign online to show off art created with the use of company’s products and third-party apps. Now, they’re bringing the experience to retail stores as well. This campaign is said to be a first for Apple. As they’ve never done something that spanned both website and retail stores and it isn’t focused on their products as much as it focuses on its hardware, software, and third-party apps.

"Every piece in this gallery was created on an Apple product," the company has said. "Every brushstroke, every pixel, and every frame of film was brought to life by talented Apple users from around the world. As you explore their work, we hope it inspires you to create something new."

Source: Storeteller | Via: Apple Insider