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
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