Apple Posts $546 Million Profit

[alec]

everytime apple has posted earnings in the past 2 years, i wake up the following morning and go 'why didnt i ever invest in apple'.

Damnit.

 

[sethypoo]

Expect it to take a dump tomorrow morning.

"Dump" huh? Methinks you don't trade stocks much. It's up over 6% now. Analysts = a dime a dozen.

 

[digitalbiker]

everytime apple has posted earnings in the past 2 years, i wake up the following morning and go 'why didnt i ever invest in apple'.

Damnit.

Apple hasn't done that well over the last year.

It has done great over the last 6 - 7 years but it has been fairly static over the last year or so.

In fact last year in January it was higher than it is right now.

 

[digitalbiker]

Apple didn't update the form factors was to ease people into Intel. Apple had to convince upgraders that they were still using a Mac, and that the inside was the only thing that changed (for the better). Now that Gen 1 Intel is complete Apple can update the form factors as they have proved Macs will always be Macs.

I agree completely.

None of the mac products significanly changed form factor even though the "innards" changed significantly.

This year should be the year we see major style changes. The old line is getting seriously stale.

 

[rdowns]

Again:

-Intel Chips are not innovation. Its change of suppliers.
-Magsafe is an actual innovation.
-24" monitors have been around for like 10 yrs.... slappig into an iMac isnt innovation its either ballsy managing or perfect timing
-A webcam.... and a software to list all ur media.... nice not new. ITS A WEBCAM PEOPLE. THATS ALL. IT DOESNT SAVE CHILDREN.
-I thought Sony had a laptop that did this already? Can't confirm.

I can confirm that my Sony Vaio does in fact save children.

 

[rdowns]

"Dump" huh? Methinks you don't trade stocks much. It's up over 6% now. Analysts = a dime a dozen.

At a dime, they are overpriced, just like Macs.

 

[bbarnhart]

Apple hasn't done that well over the last year.

It has done great over the last 6 - 7 years but it has been fairly static over the last year or so.

In fact last year in January it was higher than it is right now.

I'd say a +40% increase in stock price from Oct 19, 2005 to Oct 19, 2006 is doing pretty well.

 

[plinden]

... try bringing a white MacBook ... into a corporate office meeting...

I brought my wife's white MB into work last week to test out our webapps on a Mac (because the cheap b'staards won't even pay $600 for the cheapest Mini) and I got a lot of interest from the rest of the developers ("What? They got you a Mac? How'd you manage that?) - 95% of whom are males in their 20s and 30s.

 

[rdowns]

Thanks for the chart...I always like to see stuff like this. But your 3Q and 4Q numbers for 2003 and 2004 looked a bit fishy, so I looked into it and made the corrections below for 2004. Don't know if there are any other errors.

Thanks. I'll have to go back through all the reports I have one day when I'm bored.

 

[brianbobcat]

Red nano

Can anyone who listened to the whole webcast tell me if the Product (RED) nano was mentioned? I'm working on a project about it and would love to include a quote from an apple exec.

Thanks,
-Brian

 

[macEfan]

I knew I should have bought apple stock years ago....

 

[JGowan]

Wow, amazing how emotional people always get whenever I make a statement that could sound slightly anti-iPod... I know you love your iPod and all (I am very fond of mine myself), but over the last few years Apple has been focusing a dispropotional amount of energy into their cute little gadget which has massively boosted their profits. For those of us that don't salivate over all things iPod, I think this is too bad.

That is all.

Dude...

INTEL TRANSITION >> BRAND NEW ARCHITECTURE for the newest Towers >> 24" IMACS >> NEW MACBOOKS >> BUMP IN SPECS for MAC MINI >> LEOPARD soon and will be KICKASS

Just because people won't buy a $1200-$4000 computer as fast as they buy a $249 iPod is not Apple's fault. It's economics. Plus the same people who are buying the iPod are oftentimes the same people buying 2, 3 or more 'Pods for their relatives as gifts.

Give Apple a break. Their computer line-up is excellent.

 

[iancapable]

The Gartner report released yesterday had Dell and HP virtually tied for first place with 17.2% market share each (HP ever so slightly higher) and the IDC one had HP 300k units (or 0.2%) ahead.

Dell are still #1 in the USA, but even there the gap narrowed, from Dell having a 2.2 million unit lead in the previous quarter to a 1.5 million unit lead in the quarter just ended.

HP are really leaping ahead. I expect they will take the US #1 spot back from Dell sometime next year.

Oh my... Showing signs of a dying Dell... Apple is looking good at the moment though.

If Apple grabs even 10% of the Market, I reckon we will see a lot more software ported to OSX (namely games).

I'm porting all my code over to OSX, so will be on of those converts.

 

[jessep28]

Dude...

INTEL TRANSITION >> BRAND NEW ARCHITECTURE for the newest Towers >> 24" IMACS >> NEW MACBOOKS >> BUMP IN SPECS for MAC MINI >> LEOPARD soon and will be KICKASS

Just because people won't buy a $1200-$4000 computer as fast as they buy a $249 iPod is not Apple's fault. It's economics. Plus the same people who are buying the iPod are oftentimes the same people buying 2, 3 or more 'Pods for their relatives as gifts.

Give Apple a break. Their computer line-up is excellent.

I agree with the economics standpoint. Computers are Long Term assets more than the $100-300 iPod that the consumer purchases.

You of course are seeing iPod sales increase - that's Apple's cash cow. I think that using Q3 growth which include the back to school season as indicitave of Apple's real growth is a little premature.

If you saw the numbers, notebooks saw a strong increase, while desktops only saw a marginal increase. Now, of course more college kids are going to get laptops. That could be a source of the larger movement in notebooks.

I really want to see how things turn out in Q4. If units shipped drops or stays stagnant, then I would discount all the archetype changes in the Mac lines are producing real sales growh. However, if sales still stay reletively strong, then Apple may be in for some real growth in areas not just iPod related.

We are headed into the Christmas (Holiday) shopping season. I know iPods are going to be strong, but am really excited to see if the growth in Mac sales continues to increase.