clipped from: bits.blogs.nytimes.com Here’s another stunner: Apple’s $4.6 billion in revenue from phones is more than its sales of computers. Analysts expected Apple to sell about $4 billion in Macintosh computers and $1.6 billion in iPods in the quarter. (By unit, Apple was a little light of estimates for computers and right on target for iPods. The analysts are still crunching their numbers to turn the unit count, which Apple discloses, into revenue estimates.)
In another question, Mr. Jobs was asked whether Apple needs to make more variations of the iPhone to match the wide range of shapes, sizes, features and colors that other handset makers create to tap into every possible pocket of demand.
No, Mr. Jobs said. Again, he compared phones to computers, saying that in the future they will be differentiated more by software than hardware design.
“From everything I’ve heard,” Mr. Jobs said. “Babe Ruth only had one home run, and he kept hitting it over and over.”
