On Thursday, Fortune magazine published its annual list of 500 American companies with the largest gross revenues. Apple got this list of 15 items and took the 56 line, its revenue in 2009 totaled $ 36.54 billion is 12,5% more than in 2008.

Among the manufacturers of computers and office equipment is second only to Apple HP ($ 114,55, 10 th place) and Dell ($ 52,90, 38 th position).

In terms of net profit Apple is a 26 place: in 2009 it received $ 5.7 billion profit and surpassed by this index, companies such as Walt Disney and McDonalds. However, ahead of Google, Microsoft and AT & T has not yet obtained.

Leader of the list of revenue the network has stores Wal-Mart with $ 408.21 billion ($ 14.35 billion net profit).

Last December, Fortune praised the success of Apple , as Steve Jobs called "CEO decade." For 12 years he has increased the capitalization of the company at $ 150 billion

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On Thursday, Fortune magazine published its annual list of 500 American companies with the largest gross revenues. Apple got this list of 15 items and took the 56 line, its revenue in 2009 totaled $ 36.54 billion is 12,5% more than in 2008.

Among the manufacturers of computers and office equipment is second only to Apple HP ($ 114,55, 10 th place) and Dell ($ 52,90, 38 th position).

In terms of net profit Apple is a 26 place: in 2009 it received $ 5.7 billion profit and surpassed by this index, companies such as Walt Disney and McDonalds. However, ahead of Google, Microsoft and AT & T has not yet obtained.

Leader of the list of revenue the network has stores Wal-Mart with $ 408.21 billion ($ 14.35 billion net profit).

Last December, Fortune praised the success of Apple , as Steve Jobs called "CEO decade." For 12 years he has increased the capitalization of the company at $ 150 billion

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Resource ModMyi wrote that Apple has leased on June 22, Centre for the Arts Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco – the same one which was presented and iPad. It is highly likely there will be a presentation of the new iPhone models in the framework of an international conference for Apple developers.

Usually, Apple is holding a conference for developers in another institution, Moscone Center West. In particular, this was done in the past year. But now the schedule of the center is completely free. And in the Yerba Buena Center Apple usually holds smaller events such as the presentation of individual products.

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Opera has announced that Apple has finally approved the browser Mini for sale in the App Store. It should appear there today. Importantly, the browser will be completely free of charge. It supports iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (in classic mode with twice the pixels).

Opera Mini was filed before March 23. Not everyone believed that Apple would approve it, because it is capable of a serious competitor to Safari, especially given free of charge. It is interesting that Mozilla is so convinced that Apple would not approve of Firefox for the iPhone, which did not even submit it for consideration. Perhaps now in Mozilla reconsider their position.

Opera Mini is interesting in that it does not use the engine WebKit, but the compression scheme used remote: all the requested user page first processed at the server, Opera, and compressed to 90% in size. In Opera, argue that the Mini is six times faster than Safari when working in 3G-networks. In Opera Mini is a search on the page, which is not in Safari.

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Apple chief Steve Jobs had exchanged a couple e-mails with a programmer Greg Slipakom (Greg Slepak) from Tao Effect, explained to him why the SDK in iPhone 4.0 prohibited cross-compilation. Slipaku this situation is not like it, he believes that Apple restricts the possibility of developers to create programs and prevents both for the iPhone, Android and other platforms.

Jobs wrote that this situation is well explained article is a renowned expert John Gruber (John Gruber). In particular, he wrote that the quality of native software for the iPhone and Mac OS has never been established on cross-platform toolkit. All cross-platform applications for any platform Apple, according to Gruber, have always been second-rate. As an example he cites the "squalid" Kindle the client for the Mac, written in Qt, and the same client for the iPhone, written in Cocoa Touch, that looks and works like a native application iPhone.

Slipak this point of view is not agreed, and wrote that he now has a lot of quality cross-platform tools. At that Jobs said that Apple has only a negative experience with cross-platform tools. Perhaps he was referring to CodeWarrior for Mac OS X, which prevented developers to use the full functionality of the system, the more so was often incompatible with the latest version of the OS.

"We have already tried, but excessive levels between the platform and developer of applications and generate a mediocre retard the development platform", – wrote the head of Apple, yet again repeating the main idea of the article Gruber.

Slipak again objected that the Mac OS is an excellent program, written in a cross-platform environments, such as Firefox and Ableton Live, and that the quality of the program is not associated directly with the development environment. However, this idea was voiced Slipak no longer in correspondence with Jobs, but in your own blog.

"Lousy lousy developers will create applications regardless of the number of levels – he wrote. – It makes no sense to prohibit the conversion tools such as source-to-source, such as Unity3D. In the end, all programs are written iPhone in its own SDK, so this situation is not comparable with the Mac, where you can completely abandon Apple frameworks and write in the other.

Via Electronista

The Apple decided to delete the word «Google» a virtual button on the iPhone in the performance of Web search. In the iPad was done from the beginning, and now appeared in the beta iPhone OS 4 for a future model iPhone. For those iPhone, which sold now, there is yet «Google», but in the summer, with the advent of a new phone model, there is simply «Search».

Search engine is still Google (optionally available as Yahoo), but that there will be summer, now say impossible. This cosmetic change indirectly confirms the rumors that Apple is in talks with Microsoft about how to install it on the iPhone searching Bing instead of Google. If this is done in the summer, it is quite logical that Apple is preparing to take this step now.

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This screenshot made with the SDK iPhone OS 4.0 , clearly shows the application iChatAgent. This is a good sign in favor of what the iPhone will soon be iChat, and possibly other types of video conferencing. When exactly this happens is difficult to say: a new model of iPhone will be released only in the summer. Some rumors said that it finally appears frontal camera, and then the emergence of iChat more than logical.

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Taiwanese newspaper Apple Daily wrote that Apple plans to release new models of MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. She also suggested that the new products for so long was not because of supply disruptions processors Intel: Recently, Intel is unable to cope with orders for new mobile Core chips from manufacturers, especially Acer.

New MacBook Pro, for the newspaper, get hard drives at 640 GB or optional 248 GB solid state. It is alleged that the computers are up to 8 hours without recharging.

The fact that the new MacBook Pro will be based on chips Core i5 and i7, in principle, is not news: information about this appears in various sources for several months. 32-nm version of the chip will improve the speed and graphics performance and reduce power consumption in comparison with the models on the Core 2 Duo.

AppleInsider previously wrote that the new models of MacBook is high probability of dual graphics cards. Several sources reported that Apple tested several prototypes of notebooks that can switch between integrated and dedicated graphics.

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Apple literally just sent out invitations to an event dedicated to the iPhone OS 4.0. Pass it as early as this Thursday, April 8. The slogan, in fact, reflects what should happen at the event: "Look into the future iPhone OS» (Get a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS).

Such preliminary presentation capabilities of the new version of the operating system Apple spent before – in 2008 and 2009 before the summer starts iPhone 3G and 3GS, respectively. It is true, then they were a little earlier – in March.

On iPhone OS 4.0 without exception, are waiting for one thing – support full multitasking.

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Apple on its official website has posted a list of Web sites, friendly iPad («iPad ready»). These sites can be viewed without a plug-in Flash. Some of them support the HTML 5. It also includes a form with which you can add to the list of new sites. This kind of course Apple's promotion of HTML 5 and the side of avoiding Flash as an industry standard video.

"At the iPad installed Safari, mobile Web browser that supports the latest web standards such as HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript, – the site says. – Here are a few sites that are using these standards, they look great and function on the iPad ».

Among the sites list: news sources CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, site of the American baseball league, the company Virgin America and even the White House, services Flickr and Vimeo.

It is interesting that a month ago Website Virgin America specifically refused to Flash for the iPhone and iPad. So it can be considered the beginning of a typical trend.

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