Apple Q3 2005 Financial Results

[mcarnes]

Or, send some cash to whomever is truly calling the finances of Michael Jackson and grab hold of his 50% holding in ATV Publishing, giving Apple 50% of the Beatles publishing rights and leverage against Apple Records into settling once-and-for-all and giving the iTunes Music Store exclusive rights to the online digital sales of Beatles music.

That would be sweet.

 

[macidiot]

Apple, generally thought to be a liberal company (Al Gore on the board, not that he's a true liberal), gave some political donations to one of Governor Arnold's reform propositions.

most corporations give to both parties. All the other stuff about who is in whose pocket is just spin. For example, I went to a DNC party, and was somewhat surprised to see a large contigent from big oil. When I asked(the oil people), they simply said, we give pretty much the same to both parties. They kind of don't care who wins...

Besides, at anything other than the Presidential level, both parties are all over the map politically. There are plenty of conservative Democrats and progressive Republicans in congress and the senate. In fact, Gray Davis was a democrat and could hardly be called liberal. Arnold is republican, but could hardly be called a christian right conservative. Again, its a lot of spin.

 

[macidiot]

I've spent a fair amount of time in the last few months figuring out how to put an iPod in my car. I ended up buying a CD Player/Receiver with an Aux input, and a charger. I'm still not happy with it completely, but it gives good audio. While looking around for the best gear for me, I've become aware of what's going on out there. You can see, if you look, that putting an iPod in the car is a growing phenomenon. This week's announcement by Harman Kardon that they'll going to sell an interface that allows for external control, charging, and a screen that displays the current track, is further proof. Six months ago I went into a car audio store and asked if they had a receiver that would play nice with the iPod, and they looked at me as though I was nuts. Now, there's a big banner hanging from every "Al's and Ed's Autosound" that announces a specialized service to set it up in your car.

I've had an iPod in my car for some time now... in fact that's why I purchased one (in L.A. its kind of stupid to buy an iPod for walking on the street or for the subway commute since, well, people rarely do either here). There are several decent solutions out there. There's the icelink, which I have, the icruze from Monster, the H/K you mentioned, Alpine makes one, and I think Clarion is doing one. Not to mention all the factory kits from BMW, Mercedes, and other car manufacturers.

And I definitely think that a secret key to iPod dominance is the dock connector. Get that to be the standard interface in cars, stereos, etc. and its all over for the competition.

 

[Lynxpro]

Arnold is republican, but could hardly be called a christian right conservative. Again, its a lot of spin.

Being Republican does not mean being a *Christian* right or *Jewish* right conservative. Although the Christian Coalition would like the public to think so. Witness Arnold or John McCain. That's what really pissed me off about the Christian Coalition. They effectively blocked McCain from the nomination in 2000. McCain would've smoked Gore in that election, and Kerry too in 2004. The type of *smoking* that would be called a "landslide." But no, we got someone that probably should've been a VP nomination instead at best.

McCain's a fiscal conservative/social liberal, which is what most American voters would probably identify themselves as. And McCain wouldn't take any krap from China either...seeing that one of their officials just mouthed off that they'd fire their nukes at us if we interfered in their planned invasion of democratic Taiwan and we sank one of their ships. Me thinks McCain would threaten them with a total release of America's nuclear arsenal on China if even one of their missiles were fired at us, or one of our overseas bases.

Then again, me thinks its time a *rogue* element of the CIA provided some nukes to Taiwan to defend themselves with and allowed us to decouple from the whole situation. It would be tit-for-tat since China probably helped North Korea with its nuke program.

As for how this would effect Apple (and stay on-topic with the thread)? Hmmm...shift production to Singapore or India. Would wipe out all those iPod competitors though...

And a word to the wise...in the advent of a war with China, short Wal-Mart stock! You heard it here first!

 

[GregA]

good, solid results. Anybody know quarter on quarter results?

Also, how much of the quarter was before and how much after the intel announcment?

The quarter on quarter results are there too. iPod was up 15-20% on last quarter, similar stats on the rest I THINK.

Apple said Mac sales weren't affected by the Intel announcement, but that was based on only 2-3 weeks of sales since WWDC. So 2-3 weeks is your answer there.

 

[macidiot]

Being Republican does not mean being a *Christian* right or *Jewish* right conservative.

without going completely off topic, I agree. That's what I meant, both parties love to put their spin on things and pidgeonhole everyone. I'm ostensibly a Republican but can't stand the so-called christian coalition. Conversely, here in L.A. someone hears your a Republican and everyone assumes your a creationist warmonger, quite possibly with bad dental care and a-little-too-friendly relationship with relatives....

 

[willhclark]

Apple stock up 6.26 % today. Cha-Ching!

 

[Mac'em X]

I don't know, and this is idle speculation, but maybe its because of 2 Japanese stereotypes... herd/group mentality and intense xenophobia? One, everyone else uses windows, so to be part of the group, one should use windows too. Something like that adage, "the nail sticking out gets hammered down."

Makosuke says "Japan is pretty Windows-centric and not many people use PCs anyway"... What are you guys talking about?

The Mac does at least as well in Japan as it does anywhere else; it's Apple's second largest market, after all, and the first place Apple went when expanding its stores overseas. Japan has long been a Mac stronghold.

Xenophobia??? In a land where almost EVERY computer uses one foreign-developed OS or another, where foreign companies dominate the non-OS software market, and where Dell, IBM, Apple, and other foreign hardware makers do great?

Not many people use PCs?? Japan is one of the world's top markets for personal computers of all kinds. It's awash in computers, at home and at offices, like any other wealthy, developed nation.

Hello?

 

[wdlove]

Being Republican does not mean being a *Christian* right or *Jewish* right conservative. Although the Christian Coalition would like the public to think so. Witness Arnold or John McCain. That's what really pissed me off about the Christian Coalition. They effectively blocked McCain from the nomination in 2000. McCain would've smoked Gore in that election, and Kerry too in 2004. The type of *smoking* that would be called a "landslide." But no, we got someone that probably should've been a VP nomination instead at best.

I totally agree about McCain, but this type pf posting could get this thread locked or sent to the wasteland. Apple is a business and so it gives to both sides for its own protection.

The 3rd Quarter profits are a result of sales world wide and to customers of all walks of life.

 

[Lynxpro]

without going completely off topic, I agree. That's what I meant, both parties love to put their spin on things and pidgeonhole everyone. I'm ostensibly a Republican but can't stand the so-called christian coalition. Conversely, here in L.A. someone hears your a Republican and everyone assumes your a creationist warmonger, quite possibly with bad dental care and a-little-too-friendly relationship with relatives....

Agreed. Since I *think different,* (thus staying ontopic) I really wish the moderates of both parties would create a unified centrist party that would actually get stuff done politically, and leave both of the extreme sides to sulk at home since they are both unelectable.

 

[Lynxpro]

Makosuke says "Japan is pretty Windows-centric and not many people use PCs anyway"... What are you guys talking about?

That quote pretty much applies to the majority of Asia too. The Asian markets are skewed towards the mobile phone industry for access to the net.

Like the fascination with Pokemon, I probably never will understand the draw of SMS. I like having the option to send text messages over my phone, but without a decent keyboard, I rarely use it. Tapping the same key three-or-four times to get the actual letter I want is cumbersome. A mini thumbpad keyboard with Bluetooth is what I'd want....and I hope will be marketed as an accessory to any so-called iPhone.

 

[AtHomeBoy_2000]

I am finally listening to it as we speak. Man, they sounded pissed at IMB for lack of processor production. They were so pissed that they basically blamed them for not being able to release an update to the iMac line until September. OUCH!

On a side note: Good to know that there will be new iMacs around the same time I will be in the market to buy one!