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How Apple Changed Under Tim Cook: 15 Years in Numbers

How Apple Changed Under Tim Cook: 15 Years in Numbers

Published by skeptic

Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in his final Apple earnings call yesterday, with incoming CEO John Ternus set to take over on September 1. With Cook’s tenure coming to an end, we thought we’d take a look at how Apple has changed over the last 15 years. Cook took over as CEO on August 24, 2011, after Steve Jobs resigned. Apple’s Revenue During yesterday’s earnings call, Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan shared an interesting observation about Apple’s quarterly earnings. When Cook took over as CEO, Apple’s revenue for all of 2011 was $108 billion. Apple reported $109.4 billion for Q3 2026, earning its 2011 revenue in a single quarter. We don’t have the numbers for fiscal 2026 yet, but in fiscal 2025, revenue was $416 billion. iPhone revenue in 2011 was $47 billion, and just this quarter, it was $54.3 billion. Valuation Apple stock is down today after Cook said he expects supply constraints and memory shortages to affect revenue in the current quarter, but last week, Apple briefly hit a market cap above …

Andrew Tate Was the Toast of Trumpworld. Has That Changed?

Andrew Tate Was the Toast of Trumpworld. Has That Changed?

Published by Sam Flores

Despite the recent fanfare in Trump’s DC and the alleged intervention in the travel ban, the administration seems content to let the extradition process unfold as usual. “There’s no role for us to play at this moment,” Marco Rubio, who holds final say over the process as secretary of state, told reporters last week, “or maybe ever in that regard. But I’m not going to opine on [that].” The following day, Karoline Leavitt offered a flat “no” in the White House press briefing room when asked whether the administration plans to intervene in the extradition. Did the Tate brothers take a wrong turn in Trumpworld? Is it simply too much to expect that the US would make a rare exception to its long-standing extradition treaty with the UK? Or are the stars of the manosphere, once considered a vital pathway to the young, male electorate of 2024, no longer influential enough to go to bat for? Over two interviews with Vanity Fair, Joseph McBride, a longtime lawyer for the brothers, said that any hypothetical intervention …

7 Products That Changed My Life This July

7 Products That Changed My Life This July

Published by Jenni Sidey

We’re in the hot, sticky thick of summer, a dizzy blur of beach trips, late-night garden parties, and alfresco dining. As a Leo, I can’t help but love it. On the flip side of all that rollicking, though, is battling the elements every waking hour we’re outside. I’m talking sun protection, bug repellant, and—to put it diplomatically—sweat and smell management. And when you slip back into your icy AC haven, you’ll need to take special care for hydration, recovery, and comfortable sleep. The products I was drawn to this month all support that extra bit of maintenance required to remain refreshed, and maybe even feel inspired, amid the relentless temperature spikes. I tend to stay far away from gourmand scents. I’ve always associated overly sweet stuff with the middle-school-era sense memory of walking into my local mall’s Bath & Body Works. But this sumptuous new Collection Privé concoction from Dior’s Francis Kurkdjian might just be the bottle to convince me otherwise. It takes inspiration from the memories and flora of Christian Dior’s South of France …

A job that changed me: My year as a ‘gopher’ taught me that all errand runners are holy | Australian lifestyle

A job that changed me: My year as a ‘gopher’ taught me that all errand runners are holy | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

A gopher is a small, solitary rodent with large front teeth native to North and Central America. It’s also the name of the job some workplaces give to errand runners (though it’s more usually spelled gofer). When I was a 21-year-old law student in Canberra, I was in desperate need of casual work. I came across an ad pinned to one of the corkboards outside the library. Bleary-eyed after another all-nighter to finish an assignment, I took down the number of the law firm. The title itself wasn’t off-putting: “Gopher.” As in, go for it. Fetch things? Surely my entire life as an only daughter of immigrants had prepared me for this. It also seemed like a great way to ride my bike in business hours. Besides, looking at my dwindling bank balance, I didn’t have much choice. When I turned up to work on my first day in black pants and a crisp ironed shirt, I immediately felt overdressed. The law firm receptionist wore shorts and a jumper proclaiming, I KISSED A VAMPIRE AND …

I finally built the home server I’d been avoiding, and it changed everything

I finally built the home server I’d been avoiding, and it changed everything

Published by skeptic

For a long time, I did what most of us did: I watched other people’s homelab builds on Reddit and YouTube, wanted one, but told myself that I don’t really need one. What I had was enough. A few weeks ago I finally gave in. Bought a machine that’s way more capable than I figured it would be, and started my homelab for real. The question of whether it was worth it or not, solved itself in the first few days. The only somewhat question I had was why on earth I’d waited this long. Meet the new machine Not a tower and not a rack, but a workstation I had plenty of options. I could’ve built a regular PC tower out of used consumer parts. I also seriously considered a full server rack — that would’ve unlocked enterprise GPUs. But a rack only starts to make sense once you fill it, and filling it means a dedicated room, a wind wall of fans to keep everything cool, and a lot of noise. It’s a …

Samsung was my default Android pick for a decade — the phone that changed my mind wasn’t the obvious one

Samsung was my default Android pick for a decade — the phone that changed my mind wasn’t the obvious one

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I’ve always used a Samsung phone. After using so many of its phones over the years, from Ultra flagships to foldables, I know the brand inside out. I know what Samsung gets brilliantly right, and I know what makes me roll my eyes. But that’s the thing about sticking with one brand for so long: it starts to feel comfortable and like home. So the idea of switching to something else never really appealed to me. Then this phone launched in the US. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to try it, and then go right back to Samsung like I always do. That’s how these experiments usually end for me. Except this time, I didn’t. Related I almost upgraded my Galaxy — then One UI 8.5 made it feel new again The One UI 8.5 update breathed new life into my three-year-old Galaxy A34, making me reconsider upgrading. The phone that broke my Samsung habit This wasn’t supposed to become my new favorite phone Shimul Sood / MakeUseOf It’s not like …

Contributor: How Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis forever changed comedy

Contributor: How Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis forever changed comedy

Published by Sam Flores

Eighty years ago, though the Arsenal of Democracy had vanquished the Axis and weathered a withering Depression, the recovering American people found themselves rich in bills but short on laughs. Enter Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who debuted together on July 25, 1946. Unlike Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, or Hope and Crosby, who relied on tightly scripted setups, this disparate yet kindred duo captured America’s heart by being viscerally, uproariously and unpredictably wild. Martin and Lewis were the founding fathers of an anarchic, side-splitting brand of comedy that combined pratfalls, ad-libbed wordplay and a sustained demolition of the fourth floor. Orson Welles observed that the duo’s combustible zaniness was so hilarious that it made you wet your pants. The boys cavorted about the stage, kibitzing with bandleaders and the audience alike. In between trading impromptu quips, Martin and Lewis overturned tables, cut ties, sheared suits and spritzed seltzer on one and all. The suave, dashingly handsome Italian crooner clowning around with his gawky, rubbery Jewish buddy brought the house down every time. It …

Why Maga changed its mind about the Ukraine war

Why Maga changed its mind about the Ukraine war

Published by Sam Flores

It takes courage to admit when you are wrong. For Laura Loomer, a Maga influencer, it took a night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter and a trip to a firebombed McDonald’s. Ms Loomer’s extraordinary about-turn this week – from a provocateur who frequently said she did not care about the Russian invasion to a Ukrainian sympathiser cosying up to Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine – is the clearest sign yet that Maga has changed its mind on the war. “Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is every day for every Ukrainian,” she wrote in an X post to her almost two million followers. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say. We need to have moral clarity.” On Thursday, Ms Loomer interviewed Mr Zelensky in the garden of the presidential palace, where he admitted that his tête-à-tête with Donald Trump on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral in April 2025 proved a major breakthrough in their relationship. Laura Loomer interviewed Mr …

Fiona Apple’s Tidal at 30: How an 18-year-old changed pop songwriting forever

Fiona Apple’s Tidal at 30: How an 18-year-old changed pop songwriting forever

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The year is 1996. You pull Fiona Apple’s debut album, Tidal, out of its CD case as her icy blue eyes stare at you from the front cover. She sings over moody jazz rhythms, her words as sharp as a knife’s edge: “I tell you how I feel, but you don’t care/ I say tell me the truth, but you don’t dare/ You say love is a hell you cannot bear/ And I say gimme mine back and then go there for all I care.” Thirty years since its release, Tidal continues to influence new generations of confessional songwriters, while Apple is adored by everyone from Olivia Rodrigo to Lady Gaga. Alongside its genre-upending sound and poetic moodiness, her unflinching honesty helped build the foundations of pop music as we know it today. “Fiona’s writing changed my life,” pop singer Sara Bareilles tells …