Weekly Wrap: WWDC, Apple earnings, Adobe Creative, and more

28.04.2012
WWDC tickets came and went, we launched a brand new website, and Adobe unveiled Creative Suite 6. Those stories and more qualify for this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap, in which we’ll highlight most significant stories from the week gone by.

on Wednesday; tickets were sold out —before 7:30 a.m. Pacific time. Philip Michaels opines . For the lucky developers who did snag tickets, the WWDC conference may well feel like a religious experience. Marketing idea: Someone ought to sell WWJDC bracelets.

, along with for students and teachers. If you have questions about , senior editor . If you have questions, like how do they get those big ships in those little bottles, you’ll probably need a search engine instead.

It was a busy week for cloud storage solutions: , Google unveiled , and Microsoft made significant upgrades to , which we dived into on TechHive.

Oh, did you miss the news? The teams behind and announced that we’re creating a new, third site called . Right now, you’re seeing only our Beta Blog; the real TechHive is months away. But feel free to take a sneak peek today.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Again. The company a net profit of $11.6 billion on revenue of $39.2 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. from chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer and CEO Tim Cook for your reading pleasure. And we realized that “The Juiciest Tidbits” would make a swell name for a jazz cover band.

The iTunes Store is prompting many users to set up —and some of those questions seem kind of personal, like “Where was your first kiss?” And I hope I’m not sacrificing too much of my own security to admit publicly that my answer is “on the lips.”

If you’ve always lusted after Apple’s Thunderbolt cable, but you thought the thing cost too darn little and stretched far too easily, with a new, more expensive, shorter Thunderbolt cable of its own.

Turns out . I was going to add an Apple-related pun here, but then I started researching Apple types on Wikipedia and learned about apples and Apple than any tech writer needs to know. I need to lie down.

Senior editor Dan Moren offers up , which explains that syncing feeling you’ll get while watching it.