The After Math: Exploring Glass, Apple's cash and Nintendo's no-go keynote
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages
We've been getting our first unfiltered experiences with Google Glass this week, which makes it the perfect time to go over some of the salient points up until now. At the same time, Apple sold more hardware, more apps and made even more money -- it was largely another good quarter for the Cupertino coffers. Add in a million-second game show and there are more than enough numbers to play around with in this week's After Math.
Duration of NBC's forthcoming second-screen game show: 1 million seconds (just under 278 hours)
Battery life of Intel's next-generation Haswell reference laptop, in tablet mode: 10 hours
Battery life of Apple's current-gen iPad: 10 hours
Apple's profit for Q2 2013: $9.5 billion
iPhones sold in that period: 37.4 million
Estimated population of California: 38 million
Samsung smartphones shipped in Q1 2013, according to IDC: 70.7 million
Total worldwide mobile phone shipments for Q1 2013, according to IDC: 418.6 million
Total number of Nintendo Gameboys sold to-date: 118.69 million
Number of Nintendo keynotes at E3 2013: zero
Engadget EIC Tim Stevens' Google Glass registration number: 782
Price for early adopter "Explorer" edition: $1,500 plus tax
Fetching price on eBay for the special edition (before it was pulled): $95,300
Number of clicks to get to this Google Glass Easter egg: 9
Number of licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop: Tha-ree