Lennon described Apple Records and its parent company, Apple Corps, as a place where anybody with a good idea could get funding.
The result: BernsteinResearch analyst Toni Sacconaghi argues that iPhone sales in the fourth quarter could disappoint, even if Apple records stronger-than-expected results Monday afternoon.
The Beatles changed the name of their company that oversaw their business interests to Apple in 1967, and released most of their later albums on the Apple Records label, with its distinctive labeling--a green-skinned Apple on the A-side and the halved apple for the B-side.
These were records for Apple and among the all-time records for corporations everywhere.
If sales track expectations next year, Apple will break sales records again.
From the beginning, The Beatles' members used Apple to put out records by other artists they liked, as Lennon and Paul McCartney explained in a 1968 television interview.
Strong demand for iPhones and iPads have driven Apple to sales and profit records this year.
Samsung and Apple aim for new volume records for their summer flagship launches.
What travel agents learned from Expedia, Borders learned from Amazon, Tower Records learned from Apple iTunes and Blockbuster learned from Netflix, the traditional game makers are about to learn from free-to-play online video game companies: their business is about to fall off a cliff.
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In 2012, they expressed doubt and abandoned the stock even as new Apple products continued to break sales records worldwide.
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For the famed business leader to take part in the company's earnings call is strange enough, as he acknowledged after being introduced in the meeting Monday. (Apple broke a number of its sales records this quarter.) But his comments were even more unexpected.
Items stolen included the wallet and driver's license of Mr. Jobs, a diamond necklace and earrings, an Armani watch, as well as Apple computers, iPads and iPhones, according to records released Tuesday by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office.
Only the other day, the commission seized seven cartons of files hidden in apple boxes files which, according to official records, had already been destroyed.
In March, Apple won the right to see the bloggers' e-mail records to find out who leaked information on upcoming products to them, which they published.
Records were set during the final week of 2011 with more Apple iOS and Google Android device activations than any other week of the year.
In the first set of results since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple has failed to meet analyst expectations despite breaking several of its own records.
It made Beatles records instantly recognizable on sight--as equally recognizable as the Apple Computer logo is today.
Mark Kates, former president of Grand Royal Records and founder of Fenway Recordings management company, thinks that perhaps Apple can provide a more viable solution.
When Apple launched the iPhone 4S in the fall of 2011, it shattered sales records, selling over 4 million units in the first three days.
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Shipping records dug up by import tracking service ImportGenius.com, however, show Apple and its partners secreting shipments of a mysterious new device into ports on both coasts.
Still, you have to give Apple credit for coming out with incrementally better products year after year and continuing to set records in the number sold and the revenue earned.
Apple Corp administers the catalogue of Beatles releases, sales of which now total more than 600 million records, tapes and CDs.
On Thursday London-based Apple Corps launched proceedings in the High Court in London and New York's Supreme Court against EMI Records and Capitol Records, respectively.
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