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Apple Financial Call Hilights

Oh yes

Quitesure said:

but I may have stayed with a mac if there was only a $600 headless G4 box out there.


Rumors about it surfaced (again) about a month ago, but nothing since.

I've said this before; I really think Apple are missing a trick here. They'd have got your money, my money (and that of quite a few of my friends) if a £400 'cube' put in an appearance.

Just keep sending emails to Apple about it until they take out a restraining order (which, come to think of it, you'd be ideally placed to contest! Er, and on that theme, I don't suppose you'd be interested in sorting out some of my....er...my 'paperwork' would you......?).

Brother Mugga
 
50% of Mac users...

According to the conference call, at least as I heard it, the 50% of Mac users statistic is something like:

In the last (unspecified), 50% of folks who purchased a Mac at an *Apple retail store* did not already own a Mac.

So, numbers might be a bit hard to come by. I'm also curious how many of these purchasers have at one time owned a Mac.
 
I just saw my first G5 Commercial

5 minutes ago or so I saw a commercial for the new G5 on the History Channel. I guess I'm suprised because they say that it still won't ship for more than a month. Has anyone else seen any commercials for it prior to today. I wasn't paying real close attention until I realized it was an Apple add. But it showed some guy that was blown through several walls of his house. As the camera goes back through the holes in the walls it focuses in on the new G5. Something like "Introducing the world's fastest personal computer" was part of the spokesperson's tag line. I don't remember exactly what he said because I was kinda shocked to see it. I don't get to watch alot of TV so maybe I'm late to the party on this one. Or maybe the commercial's coincide with the Financials report this afternoon.

BTW: My order has also changed to 8/29

Regards,
 
Re: iTMS

Originally posted by raschild
My question is how much new music is being added to the iTMS library from week to week?
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On the main page of the iTMS, you can select "just added' (near the top of the left colum) to see a week-by-week display of everything that's been added to the store (for the past 4 weeks). This feature was added a few weeks after the store went online.
 
Re: I just saw my first G5 Commercial

Originally posted by Baja2k
5 minutes ago or so I saw a commercial for the new G5 on the History Channel. I guess I'm suprised because they say that it still won't ship for more than a month. Has anyone else seen any commercials for it prior to today. I wasn't paying real close attention until I realized it was an Apple add. But it showed some guy that was blown through several walls of his house. As the camera goes back through the holes in the walls it focuses in on the new G5. Something like "Introducing the world's fastest personal computer" was part of the spokesperson's tag line. I don't remember exactly what he said because I was kinda shocked to see it. I don't get to watch alot of TV so maybe I'm late to the party on this one. Or maybe the commercial's coincide with the Financials report this afternoon.

BTW: My order has also changed to 8/29

Regards,
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You can see it again here:

http://homepage.mac.com/freg3000/iMovieTheater36.html

and here:

http://www.funmac.com/G5.mov

(although I had problems with this link).

Cheers

Brother Mugga
 
Originally posted by mymemory
iTMS will go down just because once you furfill your library with the songs you are allways looking for there is not more reson to spend money in the srevice, may be just 5 songs per months or so.

For example, you go to a music store and get 4 CDs at once but you do not go every week and get 4 CDs every time you go, so, the iTMS will normailize eventually, that doesn't mean the system is not popular any more, it mean the public got what they were looking for and once the got it that was it.
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I have literally hundreds of songs left to buy. I am very slowly going through my 'collection' and buying legal copies of the ones I listen to the most. That will take a while.
 
Re: 50% of Mac users...

Originally posted by merges
According to the conference call, at least as I heard it, the 50% of Mac users statistic is something like:

In the last (unspecified), 50% of folks who purchased a Mac at an *Apple retail store* did not already own a Mac.

So, numbers might be a bit hard to come by. I'm also curious how many of these purchasers have at one time owned a Mac.
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Yes, you're absolutely right. The main MacRumors story is incorrect -- it's 50% of people who bought a Mac at an Apple retail store, as you said.
 
Re: Re: 50% of Mac users...

Originally posted by simX
Yes, you're absolutely right. The main MacRumors story is incorrect -- it's 50% of people who bought a Mac at an Apple retail store, as you said.
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What about switchers like me, who ordered my Apple in the Apple store, but instead of going through their system, I had to buy it online (in the store though with the sales man walking me through every step) in order to get my educational discount. Would I count as a in store or online customer?


--Waluigi
 
771k machines or cpus?

was that 771k machines or cpus? it seems they have a bunch of dual-processor machines which could mean that this number represents far fewer machines sold

afc
 
Switchers

"- 50% of customers buying Mac systems did not currently own a Mac"

That is very good news right? What did it look like in prior quarters since the switch campaign began?
 
Re: Er...

Originally posted by Brother Mugga
Hang on...

Did I just read that 50% of sales went to new Mac users?


Why is nobody going 'Bloody Hell!'

Am I missing something?
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Nope. You got it right.We should be shouting from the rooftops. People often miss the point, even when it's bloody obvious. Apple is doing extraordinarily well given, the change to OS X, the slump in G4 sales, the introduction of iPods, iTunes Music Store, and all the i**** things. On the iTunes Music Store: the user base is small and yet it has done superbly. When our Windoze brothers can partake of this 'communion' it will go through the roof. The fact that Apple is taking so long on its release means that it will work smoothly and stun our separated Windoze brethren, who might then be tempted to convert!
 
Sorry... Clarification:

the 50% stat was at Apple stores

arn
 
Re: Er...

Originally posted by Brother Mugga
Hang on...

Did I just read that 50% of sales went to new Mac users?


Why is nobody going 'Bloody Hell!'

Am I missing something?


Brother Mugga

PS: You can add two more to that total as of tomorrow; sucked in a couple more to the luverlyy world of iMac.

And I'll be 'switching' to a G5 in the New Year.

I know I've said this before.

I just like saying it.

Is that wrong...?
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Welcome to the sunny side :)
The 50% new users is impressive and it must have an impact worth tracking ?
 
Howzabout a tablet now?

Almost half of CPU sales were portable...

Does it yet sound like there is some sort of demand for an ultra-portable?

Why carry a cellphone and a laptop (and maybe an iPod and maybe a PDA)? Why not one small device that takes care of most everything? And that runs OS X?

Or does nobody yet see the demand, even though so many are buying portables now?
 
Re: Howzabout a tablet now?

Originally posted by Toe
Almost half of CPU sales were portable...

Does it yet sound like there is some sort of demand for an ultra-portable?

Why carry a cellphone and a laptop (and maybe an iPod and maybe a PDA)? Why not one small device that takes care of most everything? And that runs OS X?

Or does nobody yet see the demand, even though so many are buying portables now?
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How does a table request make it's way into so many threads:D
p.s. I want one too!
 
Re: Re: Howzabout a tablet now?

Originally posted by Jerry Spoon
How does a tablet request make it's way into so many threads:D
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Because it's so got-dang overdue!
 
Re: Re: Re: Howzabout a tablet now?

Originally posted by Toe
Because it's so got-dang overdue!
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:D Is it table or tablet?

Of course we could expect Apple to produce a bleeding edge table, with slots for Docking all the latest gear. Only one powerpoint needed. That would power up all else. Of course being Apple it might even be fuel celled!

:D :D :D
 


Another statistic that no one has commented on... 50% of mac buyers do not currently own a mac. That is a pretty good statistic. That's 385,500 new mac users in this quarter alone. People are being exposed to the Apple Stores, the ipod, the iTMS, the G5 and the loads of press Apple has been getting in the paper lately. I may be overly optimistic, but I'd say this number could double for next quarter.
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Maccentral says '50% of the customers...'

That would count also iPod buyers. Hence the number of new mac users might be lower.
 
Re: Er...

Originally posted by Brother Mugga
Hang on...
Did I just read that 50% of sales went to new Mac users?
Why is nobody going 'Bloody Hell!'
Am I missing something?
Brother Mugga
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I was wondering too - that is fantastic - why are there no comments on this ?
 
My 30GB iPod arrived today! I must have been one of those 304,000 :D This is the nicest piece of equipment I have seen. Especially with a new iTrip arriving soon it should be sweet!
 
Originally posted by Freg3000
The two big problems I see is the slowing iMac sales and the slowing iTMS sales. Apple can fix the mix store sales if they expand the store internationally and to Windows users soon. That is easy. For the iMac.....they need good sales. When PC users think MAC (yes, they think Mac in capitals) they think of the flat-panel iMac. Apple needs to bring the iMac above the eMac spec wise, as it currently is not. There is a lot of room now for the iMac, as there is no more PowerMac ceiling. Hopefully we'll see much faster iMacs soon. I don't believe a redesign is needed.
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I have though the same thing and would have thought the iMac would have been updated by now. I guess they are waiting for the 7457 and then they will update the iMac. I wouldn't be surprised if the PowerMac G4 and the iMac will have the same clock speed. There is no reason to position the PM G4 above the iMac. The eMac will probably get a 7457 as well, but not as fast or stay at 1GHz but have the 7457.

I do think the iMac will get a slight redesign though. It will look the same, but the memory will be different as the 7457 has a faster bus. Maybe they could even bring the iMac out of the 1GB barrier they have on it. Memory modules are increasing; Apple should update the iMac. They could also update the GPU as well, Nvidia and ATI both have newer ones out that either costs the same or less and provide more performance. They could add S-ATA to the machine as well.
 
here here!

I completely agree that Apple needs to bring the cube back in the form of a cheap headless Mac for the masses. That I think, would be HUGE. I would have bought one a few weeks ago, but instead I've rationalized that my old original iMac can hang on for another year probably.

As far as a tablet, what the heck are they used for? I have no desire for one whatsoever...
 
The iMac really needs a speed boost. A rencent MacAddict Artilce confrims that the eMac beat the iMac in every photoshop tese, and it achieved a higher FPS in Quake testing. Oddly enough the iMac has a 64mb vid card while the eMac has a 32mb vid card go figure that out!!
The eMac is truley the better value.
 
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