Apple on Wednesday posted a net profit of US$290 million, or 34 cents a share, for its fiscal 2005 second quarter ended March 26, 2005. These results compare to a net profit of $46 million, or 6 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $3.24 billion, up 70 percent from the year-ago quarter. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call estimate that Apple will earn 24 cents a share on $3.25 billion in revenue.
Read MoreApple CEO Steve Jobs says that Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger will be crucial in helping to expand the Mac base. “Tiger will give customers one more reason to buy a Mac, because it’s so far ahead of Windows,” Jobs told BusinessWeek. “It has turned out just wonderfully,” Jobs said of Tiger.
Read MoreYour Mac Life, an Internet-based Mac radio show hosted by Shawn King, has announced the lineup for this evening’s broadcast (8:30-11:00 p.m. ET). Tonight Shawn will talk to Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau, who will be talking about he plans to use Macs to swim with great white sharks. The show will also feature Jai Chulani, Apple’s product line manager for Consumer Desktops, who will discuss the Mac mini. Also on the show will be Larry Angell of iPodlounge, and Lesa Snider of GraphicReporter.
Read MoreThe April 9th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio Show is now available as an MP3 download. The show featured Apple’s Jai Chulani, M-Audio’s Scott Wilkie, and Stewart McBride of the Flash Forward Film Festival. Inside Mac can be heard live on Saturdays from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. PT. You can listen to the broadcast on AM 1220 KNTS in the San Francisco Bay area or on the Web. An MP3 download for the show is made available each Monday, in the event you miss the live version.
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