Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Oct 2005 12:23 UTC
Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $430 million (E358 million), or 50 cents (E0.42) per share, on revenue of $3.68 billion (E3.06 billion). That compares with earnings of $106 million (E88 miillon), or 13 cents (E0.11) per share, on revenue of $2.35 billion (E1.96 billion) for the same period a year earlier. The most recent quarter's earnings included a benefit from tax-related issues. Excluding that benefit, Apple would have had earnings of 38 cents (E0.32) per share. Sales were somewhat less than some analysts were projecting, and investors sent shares down more than 10 percent in after-hours trading. Apple said it sold 1.24 million Macs and 6.45 million iPods during the past quarter.
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2005-07-06
Its true, and the share of laptops must be even higher. Its a real achievement. It would be interesting to know how many of those are sales to new Apple users, and how many are to the traditional repeat buyers. You would have to agree that if a large proportion are new buyers, this would be a positive development with longer term implications. Are there any 'real facts' on this?
Well, the thing is, Apple know that their iPod probably has atleast another 18months to two years before saturation occurs, and new advances simply replace existing customer iPods thus resulting in a slower growth. With that being said, however, that depends on whether something revolutionary actually happens; whether or not there is first a video iPod and whether the movie industry pull their full out of their proverbiabal ass and allow Apple to create an iTunes for Movies as to allow end users to easily rip their favourite movie off dvd and dump it onto their iPod for viewing.
You'll probably see a big Mac push once the Intel processors get inside their machines; they don't want to start pushing their machines heavily on this side, only to find that there is a backlash later on when customers realise that their machines will basically become irrelivant within 18 months of their purchase - atleast if they start pushing their Intel machines, customers know that this is the big change, its permanant and if they purchase an Intel based Mac, barring any major speed improvements down the road, they've got a machine that'll atleast last for another 2-3 years, with the ability to access more software as many software houses will try to mothball their PPC versions asap.