Apple posted their 2012 Q2 results earlier today:

The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $24.7 billion and net profit of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.

Other key points:

• sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter
• sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter
• sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter

Not record breaking, but non-less stellar, compared with some other company.

For more details, read up Macstories’ post on the earnings call.

You can also listen to the recording of the call here.

The Mac Daddies at Ecamm Network has a good tip for iPhone app developers with regards to their earnings: If you have not done so, go fill in a 12 page Japanese tax exemption form as the Japanese tax authorities will withhold 20% of your earnings unless the forms are received.

They discovered about this after constantly finding around 20% of their earnings missing from sales of their app in the Japanese App Store. When they wrote to Apple, this was what they received:

“There is a 20% withholding tax in Japan until the Japanese tax authorities have accepted your tax exemption forms. This can take 90 days or longer. … They were required at the contract setup time in iTunes Connect. If you haven’t completed these and sent them in, you must or you should not have been paid.”

So for Singaporean iPhone developers out there, do spend some time during this Chinese New Year break and fill up all these tax forms to get all your income. (via Daring Fireball)

A quick catchup on some news that pops up from my RSS feeds.

Apple reports record revenue of US$10.17 billion and record net quarterly profit of US$1.61 billion

There was general good news at the latest quarterly earnings call from Apple, with recording quarterly revenue and profit. There was a nice percent unit growth for Macintosh sales compared to a year-ago quarter, three percent growth for iPod sales and not surprisingly 88 percent growth for iPhone units sold over the same quarter last year.

Compared these results to what Nokia is reporting – 69 percent drop in profit and and Sony’s first ever US$3 billion loss, there is much for Apple fans to cheer about in this current times.

Also read MacDailyNews top 20 highlights from the conference call for more details.

Pirated copies of iWork’09 may contain Trojan

Intego raised an alert of a Trojan that is hiding within pirated copies of iWork’09 that is being shared via BitTorent and other Warez site. So if went to such sites and did download the iWork’09 do take note. The Trojan acts as a remote access to your Macintosh for malicious use by others.

Moral of the story – pay for the real stuff, or you might get more than you expected.

To deactivate and remove the Trojan, do follow these steps (taken from Macrumors) or download a tool to remove it from MacScan.

1. (open Terminal.app)
2. sudo su (enter password)
3. rm -r /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices
4. rm /private/tmp/.iWorkServices
5. rm /usr/bin/iWorkServices
6. rm -r /Library/Receipts/iWorkServices.pkg
7. killall -9 iWorkServices

Singapore Airlines introduces iPod/iPhone connectivity in all A330 seats

Making flying more enjoyable, Singapore Airlines has included a panel on all classes of its A330 seats that has iPod/iPhone connectivity facility, USB port and AV input. But looking at the photo (click to see enlarged photo), can anyone let me know is that something you can plug your iPod/iPhone to? Or does one plug into the USB port? If the latter, it means you can charge your iPhone/iPod via the USB port, allowing you to have it fully charged when you step out of the plane.