“Clearly it’s a very strong quarter for Apple,” said the IDC’s Francisco Jeronimo. “I don’t remember the last time I saw queues outside the Apple store like I’ve seen this year.”
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]