BLOGUE Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine, waited for the start of the Victoria Beckham show at the New York Public Library during Fashion Week Sunday. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary / AFP-Getty via the Wall Street Journal)
A "Holy Fucking Shit" Quarter
Remember back in October when after a rare “miss” by Apple (which was only a miss because analysts are stupid and lazy), the early signs pointed to the potential of a $40 billion quarter? Some thought that was insane given that Apple had never even had a $30 billion quarter before. Well, turns out that projection was a little insane — insanely low.
Try a $46.33 billion quarter.
It’s a number so insane that it even destroys the $42.76 billion blow-out “whisper” number.
As for the early projections of 34 million iPhones sold — which again, some people thought were crazy — also low. Try 37 million.
But hey, Android is winning, right?
As for the other numbers. 15.43 million iPads. A record. 5.2 million Macs. A record. 15.4 million iPods. Not a record, but no surprise — this is the age of the iPhone.
That stock you were an idiot for selling? Up 10% now, well past $460 a share. By far an all-time high, pushing Apple’s market cap well past $400 billion.
I’ll be listening to the call at 2PM PT and posting some follow-up thoughts on TechCrunch. Stay tuned.
Did the stock market finally get a fucking clue re: Apple stock valuation?
One can only hope.
The women in the network seem to agree with Sandberg that sexism in America is mainly a problem that women can fix by being more assertive. Mayer, for example, notes that women have more opportunities in Silicon Valley because there’s no entrenched hierarchy there. Speaking of Silicon Valley, Goler says, sexism is not “a defining characteristic of the workplace today.” She also believes that to raise the issue is debilitating: “For me, that conversation is a complete waste of time. If I spend one hour talking about how I’m excluded, that’s an hour I am not spending solving Facebook’s problems.” Facebook’s director of platform and marketing, Katie Mitic, says that today there is no “glass ceiling but a sunroof.
Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
Sigh.
Sometimes, smart and accomplished people are astoundingly clueless.
Shirley Manson: Shirley, Madly, Deeply - V #75 by Danielle & Iango, Spring Preview 2012
You should sit down.
Keanu Reeves made a documentary.
I’ll let that settle for a second.Yes, that Keanu. Could there ever be another?
No, it’s not about holistic healing or hanging by wires all day. It’s about the seismic shift the entertainment industry from film to digital. And he talks to real filmmakers about this important topic. Scorsese (does that guy ever turn down the opportunity to talk about film?). Cameron. Lucas. Nolan. Dunham (for the kids). And it looks like he might have made a thoughtful eulogy, capturing a moment in time as technicians try to make the new as good as the old while purists claim a pixel is not a grain and a skin tone is so much more than a digital array.
I am staunchly pro-film. Digital can look great, but it always looks like digital. I’ll take grain with a drop-off over blocks of under-exposed noise any day. And no one has yet to match the color of Powell or Vidor. (via indiewire)
zadi:
The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.
The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.
They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.
That is terrifying.
Fascinated.
I saw that guy on SPONGE BOB once.
I am never swimming in an ocean again. Jesus Christ.
I was reminded of how the Cocoa world felt in 2002 — those days felt like early days again. There was so much excitement for what we could make and what would come next.
And now it feels like that for the web. Again.
If you don’t read Brent’s blog, you should.
inessential.com: Things I Learned Doing Responsive Web Design
So what was Lukken’s reward for helping the financial services industry avoid such reforms? Well, Lukken has just been named to head the Futures Industry Association, or FIA, the chief lobbying arm of futures investors.
This follows the Tauzin pattern of revolving-door hires: a government official carries water for a powerful industry, then moves on to take the cushy job with the industry’s lobbying arm once he leaves office.
Among people who follow these markets for a living, the Lukken hire had an embarrassingly over-the-top quality, like a CEO who goes the appearances-be-damned route and puts his 23 year-old secretary/mistress on the board of directors.
There are no words for how much I want to see this. Looks real, for a change. Like the place my parents tell me about.
(via Back in the Soviet Bloc - a 6-part tv series by McBrat TV — Kickstarter)
Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it.
