A rather comprehensive report by LongTail Video on how extensively HTML5 video is supported across browsers and devices.
Internet Explorer 6/7/8 have no support for HTML5, and collectively command 28% browser share, so Adobe Flash is still required to address that audience.
Gabe Weatherhead of Macdrifter:
What Ed is apparently mad about is that Apple has created a tool that he wants to use because it’s better but it doesn’t output the format he wants so he can sell it somewhere else. I would love my Epson printer to output grilled cheese sandwiches. It does not. I don’t think Epson is evil.
MG Siegler, writing for TechCrunch:
A new iPhone plus holiday shopping season is apparently like gasoline on a fire. Now we know.
But it would be foolish to think that Apple’s big numbers were only about the iPhone. Remember, Apple set new records in Mac and iPad sales as well. The iPad in particular is interesting because while it’s Apple’s newest business, it’s already the second-largest in terms of revenue. This past quarter, 20 percent of revenue came from iPad sales.
The third-biggest source of revenue is Mac sales – they accounted for 14 percent of Apple’s revenue last quater. In other words, 87 percent of Apple’s revenue last quarter was from products that all saw record sales.
“anantksundaram”, in an AppleInsider forum post:
What we know from Apple’s SEC Form 10-Q made public yesterday is that it had an iPhone segment revenue of $24,417 million and sold 37.044 million iPhones.
The average revenue per iPhone is therefore $659.
That is the number that the market is so impressively reacting to!
“Crowley”, in an AppleInsider forum post:
There was a time when Apple’s products were just more expensive because they wouldn’t fight a price war. Now they don’t need to because they’re winning the cost war.
“jragosta” lists and compares the price on various Apple products with the competition and concludes that the “Apple Tax” is nothing more than a myth.
Young, old, but especially long-time fans, it’s time to party.
To truly understand how huge Apple’s numbers are (record revenue of $46.3 Billion, record quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, 37.04 million iPhones sold, 15.43 million iPads sold, 5.2 million Macs sold, 15.4 million iPods sold), you could do worse than read MG Siegler’s piece “Apple’s Massive Numbers And Some Context“, in which he compiles related tweets.
What’s not highlighted in this article at The Orange County Register is how dominant the iPad and other iOS devices are in the pro audio and music industry.
“jlandd” writes the following in an AppleInsider forum post:
Here’s a great example of why the iPads are doing very well: at the recent NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show in Los Angeles, THE trade show for dealers of anything to do with pro audio and music hardware and software, iPads were everywhere. Not as notepads for the attendees, as parts of products on display. Mackie, MOTU, Akai, Moog, etc., in fact it seemed practically NOBODY didn’t have an iPad centric product. These aren’t like the silly iPod docks you see in Target. These are part of serious tools. Most weren’t trying to compete with any laptops but were front ends for other hardware processors. You couldn’t use a desktop for most of these uses and these are better than using a laptop for their purposes. Just Google it and read up on all of them. People who use iPads in recording studios and for live audio purposes are over the moon in love with how they fit in. This has nothing to do with how something else isn’t selling or is saturated. It has to do with what’s good about an iPad.
They work. No one is going to build a system around hardware they don’t have faith in, and if this year’s NAMM is any indication there is no lack of faith in iPads as something all audio people will be wanting to spend $500 on even if they never use it for anything else, never enter into Apple’s ecosystem for apps or media, download a show or even boot up iTunes.
Oh, and in case anyone is wondering what the percentage of other tablets on display for the same uses and products? Other tablets were close to invisible, I was told. Anything running Android was some little little page turning app or DJ something or other. If any were doing any better my friend couldn’t find them. But you couldn’t turn around without an iPad running a $30,000 tour mixer or fine tuning Broadway caliber monitor packages.
It’s over. Apple will make millions just based on this market and there are no other players.
Here’s an example of a music device that integrates with iPad, the Alesis AmpDock for iPad, a multi-effects guitar processor, being demoed at NAMM 2012:
Nice analysis by Matt Richman, who writes:
On Apple’s earnings call, Tim Cook told analysts that Apple sold over 62 million iOS devices during the fourth quarter, which is about 4 percent more than all of the Android devices sold during the same time period.
So, 62 millions iOS devices sold compared with an estimated 59,653,187 Android activations in Q4 2011.