Apple has been shipping hardware with 802.11n hardware for months now.

Furthermore, we have to ask why Apple shipped computers with these capabilities disabled in the first place.

Apple shipped about the same number of its Macintosh computers - 743,000 - as in the quarter a year earlier.

But analysts estimated that as many as 20 percent of the 4.7 million computers Apple shipped last year might be affected, for example.

For another comparison, Apple shipped 4.2 million iPads in the same quarter.

Apple shipped 698,000 computers during the last three months, compared with 838,000 in the quarter a year earlier.

By the time it was one year old, Apple would have shipped 1.9 million computers.

Apple has so far shipped more than 30m iPhones since the first 3G version was launched in 2007.

There are two reasons why Apple didn't ship the iPod touch with these applications.

Apple has long shipped its computers with networking cards inside that make wire-based networks possible in homes.