Warner Music revealed its financial results today - admitting more expensive tracks just didn’t sell as quickly. As we know, iTunes now lets labels charge more per track, if they so choose.

The effect? Warner admits digital revenue growth in the last quarter of 8 percent compared to 20 percent in the previous year's corresponding quarter.

“This is in line with an industry-wide slowdown in which year-over-year “digital track equivalent album unit growth” dropped to 5 percent in the December quarter, after being at 10 percent in the September quarter and 11 percent in the June quarter,” we’re told by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

This, according to the Byzantine logic of Big Music, equates to a “net positive” for Warner. So - selling fewer tracks by artists to fewer people is a success, so long as the profit per tune ranks high.

Update: It isn't down any more - we got Aperture 3 (so far).

Yes it is down.  Yes we want MacBook Pros with fast processors…with built in 3G.

Apple iPhone gained one percentage point share in the US smartphone market while BlackBerry lost a point in the last three months of 2009, said comScore.

The researchers reported Monday that BlackBerry remains the most widely used smart phone system in the US, with 41.6 percent of the market - one point less than in the previous quarter.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to reach 25.3 percent of the US smart phone market.

Microsoft took 18 percent of the market, followed by Palm with 6.1 percent and Google with 5.2 percent.

Motorola remained top US handset hardware maker in the quarter, with 23.5 percent market share. Its closest competitors, LG Electronics and Samsung, made 21.9 percent and 21.2 percent of all phones used in the US, followed by Nokia Corp. and RIM.

MacRumors found a job posting on Apple's website announcing that they are looking for a "Performance QA Engineer, iPad Media".  In the Job description, they say:

Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.

…and...

Good solid knowledge of photography, various video and audio media formats. Knowledgeable with lighting, whether artificial or ambient and how it affects image quality.

...Which seems to indicate that future iPads (or current iPads with features not yet unveiled) will have cameras and the ability to capture video and still images.