Quoted: We’re just minutes into Apple’s quarterly earnings call, and the iPhones sales numbers for the first fiscal quarter of 2009 (which ran from Oct. 1, 2008 to Dec. 31st, 2008) are already in. Over the past 3 months, Apple has sold over 4,363,000 iphones. Compared to the 2.3 million iPhones sold in Q1 of last year, this number is astronomical.

Quoted: When Apple launched its iTunes Store in April 2003, it took over two years to reach 500 million songs downloaded. The App Store — a sub-section of the iTunes Store — has reached that mark in under 200 days. Yes, a half billion applications have been downloaded through the App Store since its launch on July 11 of last year.

Quoted: Whoa! Has Apple just changed its mind on one of the lamest policies plaguing its App Store? In the weeks after the App Store submission process went live, a number of developers got a big smack in the face from Cupertino. After spending hundreds of hours developing their wares, they were turned away for offering features too similar to Apple’s own

Quoted: SAN FRANCISCO -- About 77 percent of Mac users in the U.S. are running Microsoft's Office for Mac, the Redmond company said today. That might not rival Office's presence on Windows PCs, but it's notable in part because of Apple's push into word-processing and spreadsheet programs in recent years. Microsoft disclosed the statistic for the first time

Quoted: By Brian X. Chen, Technology Reporter, Wired Remember when Apple customers felt hip? There was a time when a glowing Apple logo symbolized radical nonconformity. Being part of a miniature customer base was, to Mac users, like being a member of a holier-than-thou, secret society — a “Cult of Mac,” if you will.

Quoted: Let’s say Steve Jobs retires next year. So what? I’m one of those in the lonely camp that doesn’t believe Jobs is Apple and Apple is Jobs. Or that when he disengages from Apple the wheels must necessarily fall off. Jobs bought Pixar in 1986, and while he wasn’t nearly as closely involved with it as he has been at Apple, he assembled a team that helped ...

Quoted: Spending 25 hours in an Apple store counting sales might not be the most accurate means for extrapolating data, but that’s what analysts at Piper Jaffray are using to say they think Apple is going to have its best sales quarter ever for Mac computers. Last quarter, the company sold 2.6 million Macs, its best numbers ever.

Quoted: Hot off of Apple’s Q4 earnings call comes a bit of iPhone news: Alongside 2.6 million Macs and 11 million iPods, Apple managed to sell 6,892,000 iPhones in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008. In contrast, they sold just 1,119,000 iPhones in fiscal Q4 of 2007.

Quoted: I just spent the past half-hour playing with the new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and the new Cinema Display. Very impressive all around. MacBooks The new body for the MacBook and MacBook Pro, built from a single slab of aluminum, is solid. I’m writing this on my old MacBook Pro — it’s a whopping 8-months old — and this thing feels downright ...