The Apple Factory

This American(?) Life visits the Apple Factory in China: Read the transcript or listen to the audio of the show which has more emotional nuance.

Read Why Apple Makes iPhones In China and Why America’s Factories are Screwed for more discussion.

Apple Reports Earnings: [WSJ] Apple registered earnings of $13.1 billion, or $13.87 a share, up from $6 billion, or $6.43 a share. Revenue surged 73% to $46.33 billion. About 58% of revenue came from international sales.  [BetweenTheNumbers] reports that at the recent valuation of Apple shares ($455) the market capitalization of Apple was briefly higher than the GDP of Greece. (This is not really a fair apples-to-apples comparison, pun intended).

Lest you get too depressed by all this news, over at Google, an entirely different funny geek theme emerges, that of the Badass Engineer. However, much of this humor is directed at an audience of software engineers, so I give a fair warning to non-geeks.