It's just not fair.

Just like it has been since January, all of the attention from today's Apple Q3 earnings report is going to be given to the iPhone.

Sure, yesterday, AT&T said that it had only managed to register 150,000 iPhones, sending Apple's stock tumbling. And sure, Apple's report that 270,000 iPhones had actually been sold brought the price back up and then some.

But there was an even bigger piece of news that is getting completely overlooked.

26 Jul 2007

While the entire planet has been caught up in iPhone hype, the Macintosh has very quietly managed to post its best quarter ever. While the spotlight was placed firmly on the iPhone, and occasionally on the iPod, consumers went about and purchased iMacs, Macbooks, and Mac Pros in droves.

The product responsible for the "computer" that Apple so graciously dropped from its name earlier this year has lead the company to its best third quarter ever.

And how does Apple thank our beloved Macintosh? By delaying its new operating system in order to fine-tune the iPhone.

Like the brain-surgeon older brother in the Osmond family, the Mac gets shoved aside in favor of its camera-friendly younger siblings.

Well Mac, you'll always have top-billing here at the Inspector. Congratulations on your big quarter.