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...billion. It sold 2.5 million Macintosh computers, a 9 percent jump over the previous quarter, even as the rest of the PC industry contracted. The company also sold over 22.7 million iPods in the quarter with most of the growth occurring in international markets, according to COO Tim Cook. Indeed, Cook said that iPod sales in the U.S. actually contracted 3 percent in the quarter...
...iPhones, in a late afternoon teleconference with analysts and press, despite sales figures that were tamer than some pundits had predicted, Cook said the company was extremely pleased with how the smart phone was faring. He pointed out that for the year, Apple sold 13.7 million phones, "well ahead of the 10 million unit goal we set for the year." Cook later added: "Our objective is not to be the unit share leader in the cellphone industry, it's to build the world's best phone...
...said that the success of the iPhone and its Applications Store, whose 15,000 applets have been downloaded a half billion times, is causing competitors to try to follow Apple's lead. Cook then offered a veiled warning apparently directed at Palm, which is set to launch an iPhone competitor, the Pre, with its own touch screen-based interface. "We think competition is good. It makes us all better. And we are ready to suit up and go against anyone," he said. "However, we will not stand for having our IP [intellectual property] ripped off, and we will...
...wickedly smart and he doesn't have a big ego." -John Landforce, a former executive at a computer store chain who often dealt with Cook, The Wall Street Journal...
...Cook] was considered a leader, and he was a really, really good student - well-liked by his peers, always prepared, tough, but fair. We would have predicted great things for him, although it would have been difficult to predict he'd head one of the world's most iconic brands." -Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University's Fuqua Business School, The Street.com...