Apple T1 2012 results: everything you need to know

Apple presented its financial results for the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2012. This quarter, which ended December 24, 2011, is the first since the death of the co-founder Steve Jobs. 

Quarter holiday season, the T1 is traditionally a "big" quarter, and it is further reinforced this year by marketing the iPhone 4S, which should have a positive impact on the turnover, the profit and gross margin. 

Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, and had set a very ambitious target to $ 37 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $ 9.30 per share.

Free Mobile: bad for jobs?

MEPs also heavily emphasized the issue of employment. The arrival of Free Mobile is it a good thing? Xavier Niel replied that the number of people working in telecoms decreased until 2009, when Free was awarded a license to become the fourth operator. The group has hired over 1000 people to take care of Free Mobile and continues to recruit. It also creates several thousand indirect jobs, particularly in construction with the installation of antennas.

Difficult to manage a successful

Free faces unprecedented demand. And it clearly exceeds the internal objectives of the new entrant who was forced to review its system information A to Z to take into account such an influx of users. Xavier Niel suggested the figure of 3 to 4 million requests for information received from the first day of launch. He promised the arrival of a customer area worthy of the name within a few days for the owners of the package € 2 can block certain options.

Free response to attacks by its competitors

The various operators, including Orange, had gone to campaign in recent days to try to counter Free. Niel has the opportunity while at the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly to try to end some controversy (this hearing can be reviewed online). The members of this commission have literally bombarded with questions about the founder of Free the topics of the moment: national coverage, 4G, competition, the social package operators, fiber optics or the consequences on employment ...

Author iBooks, heir to HyperCard

The new edition iBooks have a little deja vu. They have a lot to remember the CD-ROM encyclopedia and the cultural heyday of multimedia.

Killed by Internet, multimedia CD-ROM launched an entire industry that will really lived a short decade. Encyclopedias such as Encarta, but also more or less specialized titles such as the Louvre or The Anatomy Lesson, or true UFOs as Xplora and Eve by Peter Gabriel, or The Book of Lulu Roman Victor Pujebet: these to digital works that were the "good book" were editing.