So, when I get Leopard I can use Time Machine to go back to 1997 and buy loads of Apple stock, right?
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Apple 4Q 2007 Results, Conference Call: $6.22 billion revenue, $904 million profit
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Are you a Financial Analyst?
Mr. Wu, is that you?
If not, you sure sound like one with those numbers, statistics and estimates.
Mr. Wu, is that you?
If not, you sure sound like one with those numbers, statistics and estimates.
These are worldwide sales - for one quarter. Apple sold 7.051 mio units in fiscal 2007 (another record of course).
2 million in the last quarter worldwide. Makes approx 7 million for the year.
SNAP!
Wow, just amazing numbers from Apple. Over 2 million computers (I bought one!), 10 million iPods, and just over 1.1 million iPhones in 90 days.
Who said our (and the world's) economy is bad?
And I bought two this quarter (a mini and an iMac)
And if we keep on calculating: In july, august and early september, Apple sold iPhones at a pace of approximately 10,000 per day. After the price drop, Apple sold them at a pace of approx. 19,500 per day.
That's a nice effect.
(Well in june, they sold 135,000 per day)
That's a nice effect.
(Well in june, they sold 135,000 per day
)
Aggressively priced...
Agressively priced = low margins. Apple doesn't do low margins. Apple doesn't do "hot swappable" component machines. Games made exclusively for Mac tend to quickly become old games because the makers don't generate the same kind of revenue they would get for Windows or Windows/Mac games. We went through this before with Apple, maybe before you were born.
Agressively priced = low margins. Apple doesn't do low margins. Apple doesn't do "hot swappable" component machines. Games made exclusively for Mac tend to quickly become old games because the makers don't generate the same kind of revenue they would get for Windows or Windows/Mac games. We went through this before with Apple, maybe before you were born.
It pays to be a FANBOY! Any of the moronic PC zealots to say that "Apple is beleaguered" now? EAT SOME CROW, BALLMER BOYS! APPLE IS SIMPLY THE BIGGEST IT COMPANY ON EARTH!
This is great news.
Being a longtime Apple customer, I was pretty upset around the 1998 timeframe when Apple was going through hard times. All the so-called experts were dissing Apple and saying it would go down the tubes soon - and they were smiling.
Microsoft ruled from on high.
My, my, how Steve Jobs, time, and the iPod have changed Apple's fortunes.
Being a longtime Apple customer, I was pretty upset around the 1998 timeframe when Apple was going through hard times. All the so-called experts were dissing Apple and saying it would go down the tubes soon - and they were smiling.
Microsoft ruled from on high.
My, my, how Steve Jobs, time, and the iPod have changed Apple's fortunes.
Apple doesn't do..
Apple doesn't do low margin phones either.
Sorry, that's just not their game.
I agree, Apple needs a bare bones $200 or less cheap iPhone. Call nano if you want. That would be a huge hit. I would buy the regular iPhone for me and the nano to my wife since she's not so much into gadgets. but seriously Apple need to address these folks that do not want to, for example get a family plan and have to buy 4 iPhones at $400 each, That's crazy. Bring a cheap version for the kids and wife or husband, etc.
Apple doesn't do low margin phones either.
Sorry, that's just not their game.
Heh. In more stable industries, where companies tend to last longer, margins of 25-35% ARE low. It's only in PC manufacturing that you can think of margins like that as "fat".
Perhaps Apple would like to be a stable company and be around for the longer term. And that's why they try to keep their margins in that area.
damn
I thought I was making a good move by selling the stock when it hit $75. Man oh man, I could afford quite a few new Macs if I hadn't sold it.
I thought I was making a good move by selling the stock when it hit $75. Man oh man, I could afford quite a few new Macs if I hadn't sold it.
Average corporate profit margin is......
According to the Fool.com, the average corporate profit margin over the last 25 years is...8.3%.
I don't disagree with your premise, tho.
According to the Fool.com, the average corporate profit margin over the last 25 years is...8.3%.
I don't disagree with your premise, tho.
More switchers, switchers, and switchers!!!
I'd certainly like to be, but I'm one of those crazy people who requires an upgradable desktop that isn't a Mac Pro. Someone needs to beat Steve with sticks until he agrees to offer up such a Mac.
Apple Movie needed
I wish the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley 2 - The Wrath of Jobs" would come out within the next 2 years. Then Pirates of Silicon Valley 3 - In Search of Woz". Apple really made a huge comeback before the dark times... before the empire.
I wish the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley 2 - The Wrath of Jobs" would come out within the next 2 years. Then Pirates of Silicon Valley 3 - In Search of Woz". Apple really made a huge comeback before the dark times... before the empire.
wow this is great news for apple. it finally looks like the effort they are putting in is being recognised by the world. i have been waiting for this for a loooong time. i did know that it was comming. apple is moving up. lookout everyone else
I would not be so sure.
There is a huge market for cheaper phones. Even though Apple lowered the iPhone prices. Still an expensive phone to most folks.
I bet the iPhone nano is on the works.
Your thinking doesn't make sense. If that was the case Apple would never create the iPod nano or Shuffle. They would only keep their hi-end iPod line with higher profit margins.