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Posted on 01/18/2006 6:12:19 PM PST by Panerai
Apple Computer reported a 95 percent rise in quarterly profits on exploding sales of its iPod music players, and notched more than one billion dollars in sales through its retail stores. ADVERTISEMENT
Apple s stock, though, fell in after-hours trading because Apple offered a forecast that fell short of Wall Street estimates.
Apple reported net income of 565 million dollars, or 65 cents a share, for the first fiscal quarter to December 31, up from 295 million a year earlier. The report beat analyst forecasts of a profit of 55 cents per share.
Sales rose 64 percent to 5.75 billion dollars. Chief executive Steve Jobs disclosed Apple's quarterly revenue result January 10 at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
Consumers snapped up 14 million iPod devices during the holiday quarter, and Apple has now sold more than 40 million since late 2001. The groundbreaking product has transformed Apple from a niche PC maker into the leading purveyor of digital media.
Apple also sold 1.25 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, a figure that was up 20 percent from the year-earlier figure. Apple is in the process of transitioning its Mac line to Intel rocessors, and it expects to have all of its PCs running on Intel chips by the end of this year.
"We are thrilled to report the best quarter in Apple's history," said Jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
" If you're a PC user you have to learn how to use iTunes, a fairly complicated and finicky piece of software, just to copy music to the iPod."
Complicated? Finicky? I'm on a Mac, and it's just drag and drop onto the icon. What's to learn?
An Iriver h320 with the new Rockbox open source firmware puts apple to shame.
Using the iPod on the Mac is easy--the software runs mostly to Apple's GUI conventions. But doing it on a PC is something else, because it doesn't work like what you see from a Windows program.
Barring extrinsic negative shocks to the market, AAPL reaches par about April, I would think, and so place my chips.
Remember that Big Ass Tomato ???
We need a special too much profit on ipods tax. </sarcasm>
Sung to the tune of "Junk Food Junkie"
(with apologies to Larry Groce)
You know Hank loves his M$ Windows
He always asks for more
And they call him Mr. Microsoft
On down to the Best Buy store.
He only uses good old Word
Linux don’t touch his drive
And he’s on FR just ragging them
Apple folks with all his jive.
Oh, but at night he takes out his strong box
That he keeps under lock and key
And takes it off too his closet
Where nobody else can see
He opens the door so slowly
And looks around his house
And pulls out an Apple iBook
And plugs in a mighty mouse.
Yeah, in the daytime he’s Mr. Microsoft
And loves his Dell PC
But at night he’s an Apple Junkie
Metrosexual as can be.
Well, at daytime you can always find him
At the Microsoft patching site,
Just plugging the latest M$ flaw
And running Norton Firewall light,
With an Adaware scan for dessert
Defragging his disk in a natural way
While checking for a patch alert.
Oh, yeah
Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
And he’s all by his self,
He works that combination
On his secret hideaway shelf
And he pulls out an iPod Nano
With his iTunes on the sly
Then sits back in glorious expectation
Of a genuine Apple high
Yeah, in the daytime he’s Mr. Microsoft
With a new Gateway PC
But at night he’s an Apple Junkie
Hoping nobody else will see.
Oh his friends down at the Geek Squad
They think he’s pretty neat
Oh, he don’t know nothing about motherboards
But he can type with both his feet
He’s a friend to old Steve Balmer
And he runs his Fdisk twice
He’s got a Bill Gates autographed butterfly
And multiple Logitech mice.
Oh but lately he’s been spotted
With some ear buds on his chest
Stumbling to an Apple Genius Bar
Hugging a Power Mac to his breast
He’s afraid someday they’ll find him
Just stretched out on his bed
With a Power Book on his stomach
And an iSight by his head
Yeah, in the daytime Hank's Mr. Microsoft
Fixing his Acer Open PC
But at night he’s an Apple Junkie
Even worse than you or me.
No, remind me! Remember Fatburger? I hear they went chain, which is probably good because the odds of getting killed at the original location weren't zero.
"Apple profit surges 95 percent on iPod sales"
uh oh, time to start congressional hearings.
I have a Fatburger in Redmond ,WA. I was there for the Grand Opening,LOL!
That is pretty hilarious.
If you're a PC user, you can skip iTunes alltogether and use xPlay, which will allow you to manage your iPod through Windows Explorer. It works great.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/
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Pfft. I've had my Creative Nomad Jukebox (same thing, cheaper and lasts longer) for two years and it continues to work fine. Has Apple fixed the battery issue with Ipods? It used to be you couldn't replace the battery, so when the battery ran out in a year, oops that 300 dollar Ipods now worth about 3 cents.
Technically, if something is here to stay, it isn't a fad.
It's actually a quote from the Simpsons.
Aside from quality headphones and maybe a protective case with a belt clip, what "accessories" do you need?
I got several accessories for my iPod Photo. A Griffin iFM remote that allows me to listen to live FM, and record FM music directly to the iPod, also acts as a conference recorder with it's microphone. I wish Apple built this into an iPod, it's a great accessory to have. Another is a Logic3 i-Station compact portable speaker setup. Sometimes I don't want to wear earphones when I'm away from the computer, and it also has USB and Firewire cables and a dock for syncing the iPod to my PC.
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