Apple has just reported encouraging financial results thanks to good sales of the new flat-screen "lamp-Mac". Profits were down slightly (from $43 million to $40 million) on quarterly turnover that was up slightly (from $1.43 billion to $1.5 billion). Apple also plans to open more shops, so fans will be able to get Apple's proprietary hardware running Apple's proprietary software and Apple's set of bundled applications from Apple stores.