Most consumer electronics giants can hope for one cool product at a time. But Apple Inc. continues to buck that trend with not one, not two, but three red-hot product lines that are so popular with consumers that the company continually beats analysts' expectations.

In the fourth quarter that ended last month, Apple sold 10.2 million iPod musical devices and 1.12 million iPhones, as well as shipped a record 2.16 million Mac computers, ringing up $6.2-billion (U.S.) in revenue, a 29-per-cent gain from the previous year.

No surprise then, that Apple chief executive officer and co-founder Steve Jobs brags the current product portfolio is the best ever. It's a far different story from a decade ago, when an acquisition brought him back into the fold.

Apple is certainly not without notorious build-quality problems. Users reported issues with almost every first-generation product: the iPod Nano, Macbook Pro and iPhone all come to mind. Now Apple users report new iMac computers also carries this same stigma.....

This time iMac users are reporting condensation behind the glass panel that shows up after short periods of use. Some owners report that the condensation goes away shortly and doesn't come back, other users report the condensation stays for extended periods....

Apple's Leopard is selling twice as fast as Tiger did on launch, as switchers reject Vista and Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks up the future of computing.

Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' is being pre-ordered at twice the rate Mac OS X 10.4 did in the week before its release, MacObserver reports.

A Canadian website which offered versions of sheet music - mostly from long dead composers - has been forced to close after receiving a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing a German music publisher.

The International Music Score Library Project was taken offline by its founder Feldmahler. In a posting on the site he explained that he was unable to fulfill the demands of the letter and so had to take the whole site down.

Apple Inc. beat Wall Street targets with a 67 percent rise in quarterly profit on Monday, led by strong sales of its Macintosh computers and a big first full quarter from the iPhone, sending its shares up more than 5 percent.

Apple's net profit was $904 million, or $1.01 per share in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with $542 million, or 62 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue was $6.22 billion, up 29 percent from $4.84 billion a year earlier.

The results handily beat Wall Street's average targets of 85 cents per share earnings and $6.06 billion revenue, according to the average forecast on Reuters Estimates.

The Oobject Rotten Apple Award. To mark this week's 10th anniversary of the death of the Newton we have picked some of the products from Apple, that we'd rather forget.

We could have picked many more from the years when Jobs was in the wilderness and Apple attempted to be market driven rather than design driven, under Sculley. Reactive rather than pro-active. One problem, the gallery would have been a sea of similar, anonymous items. For the Sculley era machines, assume that we mean every product in the range.....

Vote for your all time worst product.....

Money no object? Then how about a 24-carat gold-plated MacBook Pro for your next laptop computer? US Mac dealer Powermax has begun offering just that.

When you examine Apple's financials in even a cursory fashion, you have to consider that, not so long ago, it took almost a year for them to earn $6.22 billiono of revenue. Now Apple can do this in a single quarter, and nobody can guess just where this might end up in the next few years

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