Apple's (AAPL) hot streak continues

Apple sold 8.5 million iPods in the most recent quarter, a 69-percent increase over last year. iPod sales accounted for $1.7 billion of Apple’s $4.36 billion revenues. The iTunes Store and iPod-related accessories accounted for $485 million, up 125 percent over last year. Combined, iTunes and iPod products account for more than half of Apple’s revenues with $2.199 billion. This is more thank the  $1.7 billion Apple brings in from sales of it's computer hardware. Apple’s earnings rose by 41 percent to $410 million, on revenue of $4.36 billion from $290 million, on revenue of $3.24 billion the previous year.

Maybe John Dvorak is right and they should open source OS X. I know the folks at MS think Apple's move to Intel hardware means Apple is going to defocus themselves from the OS X product. I don't know about that...perhaps wishful thinking by my old friends in Redmond.

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[Chris]

Open-sourced OSX as a community testing project like a Linux distro would completely rock. I'd love nothing more than to see it happen, but sadly, Apple likes selling their hardware for higher margins. It wouldn't be a problem supporting all sorts of hardware, because OSX is based on FreeBSD. I think they're afraid of piracy and they lock it to their hardware only.