AAPL.O

Hope that's the last of the layoffs... or you could say ... the .. final cut...

ouch.

They needed to be redirected to fix the clusterfuck that is iMovie...

AMEN.
I really hope help is on the way with iMovie in the next version of iLife, which has been rumored to be about any month now.

MS has some good plans they say with Office 2011, from what I was listening to today on maccast podcast.

As long as those plans don't include a ".docxx" - I've had enough of file incompatibilities.

[edit] oooh, the spam filters think this is juicy...

Apple currently holds the fifth-largest market capitalization among U.S. public companies, behind Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Berkshire Hathaway.

So, Apple has Warren Buffett and the axis-of-evil™ for company...

Wow, no big industry in there.

Apple earnings surge by 90%.
Mac sales: 3.36 million. iPhones: 8.74 million. iPods: 10.9 million
$3.33 earnings per share on revenue of $13.5 billion

Stock up around $16 after hours.

What's Apple's Mac market share like nowadays? Must be well over 10% maybe mid-teens?

12 million new macs a year - wasn't once estimated there were only 25 million macs worldwide?

At this quarter's run rate, they're selling 26 Macs per minute.

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At this quarter's run rate, they're selling 26 Macs per minute.

Seems like that is low estimate for the Apple Stores I have been in...

I just know there is a former retailing guru that worked up the "Gateway Country" thing who seethes with rage every time they go past a jam packed Apple retail location. Missed it by 'that much'.



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You couldn't BUY anything at a Gateway store; at least you couldn't take it home with you. It was just a concierge service for using their website to configure a machine and order it online.

Apple definitely knew what it was doing getting premium retail space for their stores. Other shoppers see the faithful lining up for hours a couple of times a year and it makes people curious. Gateway went with more of a compusa model for locations, right (I know they weren't as big)?

Steve knows how to win the mindshare. The RDF is reaching all-time levels. I remember how much we were pissed off about RDF during the USB jelly days, but it completely infuriates people who have enjoyed watching Apple scuffle in obscurity to know see the company at the forefront of pop culture.

Location, location, location. The Indianapolis Apple Store is pretty small, by Apple Store standards--frustratingly small, from my perspective--but it is well located within Indianapolis's swankiest shopping mall, across from Pottery Barn. It is almost always jam-packed; it's probably the busiest store in the mall (and it certainly does the most business per square foot). The late, unlamented Gateway Country store wasn't far away--it was on the other side of 86th Street from the Fashion Mall--but it was in a strip mall that people didn't (and still don't) go to unless they needed to go to one of the particular stores there. Apple, by contrast, draws from the people who go specifically to the Apple Store and people who go to the mall and happen to drop into the Apple Store.

Apple takes second place on S&P 500, passing Microsoft. (This measurement uses total tradable shares. By total capitalization, MS is still #2.)

why can't steve WIN?

Somebody shorted AAPL.

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One deeper problem is believed to be CEO Steve Jobs, who -- while responsible for much of Apple's success -- is claimed to have a considerable ego, only inflated by analysts and the media. The executive's insistence on his own vision could backfire, as few people at the company may oppose him. Should he not make a serious mistake there is also the question of his health, since death or early retirement could leave his company without the same focus.

Hmmm... Having an each way bet here aren't they? Steve Jobs is somehow a major liability and Apple's greatest asset at the same time?

I think somebody really is trying to short AAPL.

It's the classic "AAPL (and Apple) is doomed!" crap wrapped in a new kimono. Same shit, different words.