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BBC News
The only reason is the sudden mainstream Ipod burst. Everything else they have doesn't sum up to other alternatives. Especially Tiger, wow, it has all these gay gadgets, who cares?
*much rejoicing takes place* Reaons?:..enough people care to give apple its best quarter :P
That's true, but the enough people, mostly own a PC with WinXP and just have their Ipod hooked up to it.
Soon they will make itunes only available for mac, then they start selling ipods and macs in same package.
Apple won't make iTunes unavailable for PC, your going to have to watch the wily Micro$oft as they empliment their own version of iTunes and tune out Apples software. If Apple makes iTunes for Mac only, they would be limiting their line of Legal music downloads (that doesn't make sense.) Not all of the Quarters success was to iPods & iTunes there was a big price drop in G5 Macs which also helped in the profits...
It was a joke. Clearly not a good one because I'm explaining it here :p