Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The absence of Steve Jobs at the upcoming Apple Expo in Paris next month has tongues wagging with speculation that the Apple boss is snubbing the show because of French Government attempts to interfere with the company's iTunes and iPod business model. However, the speculation is probably off the mark.
France and the Scandinavian trio of Norway, Sweden and Denmark are
spearheading a European push to force Apple to open up its iTunes
online music store to portable music players other than iPod. Apple
makes most of its money in the music business from iPod sales largely
driven by iTunes downloads.
Macworld UK has reported that this
year there will be no keynote address at the Apple Expo, which runs
from September 12-16, making it the third year running that Jobs has
not presented to the gathering, which is the biggest Mac event in
Europe.
Given the size of the Apple Expo and the European
marketplace, where Apple holds a very strong position, it would seem to
be very unlikely that Apple pique with a government is behind the lack
of a keynote or the absence of Jobs.
Following announcements and
previews at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco
earlier this month, Apple has been on media roadshows to the various
local markets outside the US showing off new technologies such as the
upcoming Leopard and the new Intel Mac Pro.
There is already a
lot of new information about the Mac platform for the market to digest
and it's quite possible that Jobs fired all his bullets at WWDC.
David Bass
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