[Phanuthier]

I work for a pretty big (multi-ten billion dollar market cap) company, who does some stuff for Apple. A month ago, we hired a VP who's unoffcial title is "VP of Apple", i.e. his job description was to keep Apple happy. Talking to a lot of guys around here that have Apple as customer, all of them have been ramping up to get a partnership as well.

Apple is a beast.

(J3J ... I said this earlier, but I know an someone who worked for Apple in finance... in their accounting cycle (or everyone's accounting?) there is a extra week compared to other accounting cycles, a leap year of sorts as far as accounting cycles go. I'm told that extra week is why they blew away analyst predictions, otherwise they would have exceeded but it would have been close.)