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Jobs well done, Apple TV is the next i-popper

Saye Sekhar | January 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

What next? As has been talked about, Apple TV is already beaming its signals. Once Apple TV is rolled out, maybe even literally, with its numerous variants meeting the needs of all financial classes across the globe, none should be taken by surprise if history repeats.

I am confident people that would make beelines in front of electronic stores to grab their piece of TV, like iPhone and its successive upgrades. Hopefully, the Apple TV will be a hotcake not just in terms of its sales, but in its performance as well like its sister products from the Jobs-Wozniak stable where Steve is the common thread that binds the products.

The unassailable position of Apple in its hard software and soft hardware took the company to the zenith of its popularity. For, it researches well before bringing out a product to stands and it knows more than anybody as to how to create a build-up in the run-up for such new launches and capture the attention of its TG (target group).

Apple TV would surely be connected to a TV app store, creating a new wave of business models for independent software professionals.

We shouldn’t be aghast to talk to someone in the TV without the help of a cell phone and also tweak the climax of a movie the way we want with the help of a few push buttons or a couple of steps on touchscreen .

A staggering $46.33 billion revenue, a record $13.06 billion profit, sale of 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads in fiscal quarter Q1 2012, the bereaved Apple is only scripting its success in letter, inspired by the spirit of the legendary Steve Jobs.

The year-on-year growth in sale of iPhones is a mindboggling 128 per cent.

Macs, iPads and iPods too have their share in boosting the top line and bottom line of the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone maker.

Designer and author of Mobile First, Luke Wroblewski tweeted: “There are more iPhones sold per day (402K) than people born in the world per day (300K). Even if the 37.04 million is divided by 98 days in the quarter that was reviewed for the financial results, the number of iPhones sold would come to more than 377.9K, much higher than the total number of births in the world.

Tim Cook’s books are neither cooked nor are they crooked. The robust financial backbone of the technology giant would have been much stronger, had it priced its products at a little more affordable cost in a large consumer market like India.

The iPhone which remained the favourite among high-end users accounted for 53 per cent of the company’s revenues.

“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” said Tim Cook. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

“We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.

“Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2012, which will span 13 weeks, we expect a revenue of about $32.5 billion.”

Cash reserve, short and long term investments together that are stashed in its account books is pegged at close to $ 100 billion.

According to an estimate, the company was adding `82,795 or $ 1,670 every second at Apple Inc. The company’s market value was pegged at $ 400 billion — equivalent to the size of 50 TCSs in revenue terms.

A leading financial daily analysed through a graphic representation that put out a startling fact that just the sales of iPhone itself outwitted the total revenues of Microsoft.

The same newspaper said Apple can buy India’s most valued corporate — RIL and almost 90 per cent of public sector ONGC with half of its reserves.

With the advent of Apple on the TV firmament, victory remains sour grapes for the competition.

Robust numbers posted by Samsung, for now the largest TV seller in the market, only bolsters confidence that it can still remain the second best.

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