iPhone & iPad Live 291: WWDC 2012, Q2 results, Google Drive

Rene and Seth talk WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Apple’s Q2 2012 financial results, free iPhone games, Instapaper vs Pocket vs Readability, and Google Drive. This is iPhone & iPad Live!

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WWDC 2012

• Apple announces WWDC 2012, June 11 – 15
• WWDC 2012 sells out in 2 hours. At $1600 a ticket. At 5:30am Pacific time.

Apple Financial Results

• Apple reports Q2 2012 results, 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 7.7 million iPods, $11.6 billion in profit
• Highlights from Apple Q2 2012 financial results conference call
• Stellar Q2 2012 highlights why Apple is a must-own tech stock
• Verizon sells 3.2 million iPhones, earns $3.91 billion in Q1, 2012
• AT&T activates 4.3 million iPhones in Q1 2012, accounts for 78% of smartphone sales
• Sprint scrapes by in Q1 2012 with 1.5 million iPhone sales, sees $863 million net loss
• Tim Cook tells competitors to invent their own stuff — Apple is not the world’s developer
• Tim Cook thinks Apple’s iPad + MacBook Air strategy is better than Microsoft’s Windows 8 everywhere plan

Apps

• Best free iPhone games
• Instapaper vs Pocket vs Readability: Read later app for iPhone shootout!
• Google announces Google Drive, gives 5GB of free cloud storage to all users
• Eddy Cue says Apple can’t treat magazines differently than FarmVille when it comes to iBooks
• Yes, sometimes you do need to kill all the apps in your multitasking dock

Hosts

• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Credits

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iPhone & iPad Live 291: WWDC 2012, Q2 results, Google Drive