Apple's quarterly results

[Lance]

Another bumper period: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/24/2730702/apple-reports-massive-q1-2012-results-with-46-33b-in-revenue

So, $13,000,000,000 profit (about $1b a week) and almost $100,000,000,000 cash in the bank. Big numbers!

[Simon]

Wow!

[john]

Another bumper period: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/24/2730702/apple-reports-massive-q1-2012-results-with-46-33b-in-revenue

So, $13,000,000,000 profit (about $1b a week) and almost $100,000,000,000 cash in the bank. Big numbers!

Very impressive but surely it's just over $1b a month, not a week ?

[Lance]

Nope - they are results for the quarter, not year!

[zappaDPJ]

That's amazing, especially in the current economic climate.

[Lance]

The fact they sold more phones than Samsung is quite impressive too when you consider Samsung have multiple products at several price points and Apple only have a couple of iterations of the iPhone.

[Simon]

As much as some people hate Apple, you can't knock the products for usability, and that's simply what most people want. 

[john]

Nope - they are results for the quarter, not year!

Oops, my mistake, even more impressive still then.

[Gary]

As much as some people hate Apple, you can't knock the products for usability, and that's simply what most people want. 

Shame then that iMovie which is part of the iLife 11 suite on iMacs can't be downloaded right now and there is no physical discs with new iMacs to help, so all you get is, 'hash mismatch' loads of people having this issue, so much for 'it just works'  Also look to the the people with appalling battery life on their iPhone 4S's... I think Apple are forgetting that people are their business sometimes, and I liked like Apple products

[pctech]

I did come away from the Apple training thinking that Mac support was going to be easy as any problem can be solved by deleting the .plist file.

However one product I support has to have an installer and we've had to escalate the issue to the supplier as a patch can't see the installation on some systems (both Snow Leopard and Lion).

I've not just removed the .plist file as I don't want to cause any damage and its not clear what else the installer might be doing other than copying files.

[Gary]

I did come away from the Apple training thinking that Mac support was going to be easy as any problem can be solved by deleting the .plist file.

However one product I support has to have an installer and we've had to escalate the issue to the supplier as a patch can't see the installation on some systems (both Snow Leopard and Lion).

I've not just removed the .plist file as I don't want to cause any damage and its not clear what else the installer might be doing other than copying files.

Launch Activity Monitor and change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes", then make sure the app you want to remove is not running. If it is, quit the process before proceeding.
Launch Finder and search for the app name (hopefully unique, such as Skype)
You can narrow the search to specific folders or search your whole Mac
Searching "File Name" vs "Contents" usually provides better results.
Click the + button below the search term to add criteria
Click the search criteria drop-down and select "Other...", then "System files"
Click the "don't include" and change to "include"
Sort by name, kind, date, etc. to identify components of the app, such as folders, .plist files, cache files. etc.
Delete all files and folders related to the app.

[Steve]

I use AppCleaner to get rid of applications and associated files

http://freemacsoft.net/#

[pctech]

Thanks for the suggestions folks, will pass these on.

[Gary]

I use AppCleaner to get rid of applications and associated files

http://freemacsoft.net/#

I have found that sometimes AppCleaner misses stuff sometimes, its a great App though but I like to dig around a bit.