Apple's Q2 2015 might not reach the world record of the previous quarter, but it still has another record for the iPhone maker-- net quarterly profit of $13.6 billion on $58bn revenue, with gross margin of 40.8%.
In other words, Apple still manage to outdo all expectations, particularly as international sales continue driving results by accounting for 69% of revenues. For the record, Wall Street was expecting revenues reaching around $56.06bn, while Apple itself was hoping for revenues between $52 and $55bn.
“We are thrilled by the continued strength of iPhone, Mac and the App Store, which drove our best March quarter results ever,” CEO Tim Cook says. “We’re seeing a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we’ve experienced in previous cycles, and we’re off to an exciting start to the June quarter with the launch of Apple Watch.”
"These reports are false, and include comments incorrectly attributed to a Nokia Networks executive," a company statement tersely reads. "Nokia reiterates it currently has no plans to manufacture or sell consumer handsets."
“In Google, there are some second thoughts on how to interpret version 3 [of Glass],” Luxottica CEO Massimo Vian told shareholders at at the company's general meeting. “What you saw was version 1. We’re now working on version 2, which is in preparation.”
Such ambitious projects include stabs at virtual reality, unnamed sources "briefed in Nokia's plans" say.
LinX makes "miniature multi-aperture cameras designed for mobile devices." One such camera, launched back in June 2014, promises to pack SLR-level photographic chops within a package half the height of standard mobile camera modules. To do so, it uses software to software create "true depth information on high contrast objects and on near flat surfaces, such as walls, which are traditionally considered difficult for passive stereo systems."
