We look at Apple’s big quarter & break down the most important numbers, good & bad. Plus we discuss YouTube’s switch to HTML5, the Ghost vulnerability impacting Linux & more!
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Apple Just Had The Most Profitable Quarter Of Any Company Ever | TechCrunch
For reference, that means **Apple makes around $8.3 million dollars per hour ** in profit (24 hours a day).
Apple Reports Record Earnings and iPhone Sales: $18B Profit on $74.6B in Revenue for Q1 2015 – Mac Rumors
Apple sold a record 74.5 million iPhones during the quarter, up from 51 million a year earlier, while Mac sales were also strong with 5.5 million units sold, up from 4.8 million units in the year-ago quarter. iPad sales were down, however, falling to 21.4 million from 26 million.
Apple breaks its sales records with 74.5M iPhones in Q1 2015, but iPad sales decline 21% to 21.4M | VentureBeat | Business | by Emil Protalinski
Helping the iPhone was undoubtedly Apple’s moves in China — a report earlier today estimated it shipped more smartphones than any other company in the country last quarter. Furthermore, last week a study found iPhones accounted for half of all new U.S. smartphone activations in the same quarter.
Apple’s Cash Is Now Greater Than The Market Cap Of These S&P500 Companies | Zero Hedge
Apple – which is the largest company in the world with market cap of over $660 billion – has a greater cash hoard than the market cap of all but 17 S&P 500 companies.
The table below shows Apple’s cash holdings in selected S&P500 market cap context.
YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox.
Highly critical “Ghost” allowing code execution affects most Linux systems | Ars Technica
The vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) represents a major Internet threat, in some ways comparable to the Heartbleed and Shellshock bugs that came to light last year. The bug, which is being dubbed “Ghost” by some researchers, has the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2015-0235. While a patch was issued two years ago, most Linux versions used in production systems remain unprotected at the moment. What’s more, patching systems requires core functions or the entire affected server to be rebooted, a requirement that may cause some systems to remain vulnerable for some time to come.