Dont Hurt Me said:
True, Im glad Apple is doing well in the music industry but powermac sales were 174,000 and that included xserve and powermac G4. Down yet again from last qtr. they are selling in the same qtys as were quicksilvers 3 years ago but the market has gotten bigger every year. I wonder how many G5 powermacs sold? funny how they blurr this. just like Imac sales where they add Emac sales. If Apple showed simply G5 sales and Imac sales im sure most would agree they are dismal. the point groovebuster makes is very valid. smaller and smaller marketshare. Yes Apple did Great with pods but with systems that sit on your desk they are selling less and less in a bigger and bigger market. Ars technica has a article about it and in it they say dont look for a G5 Imac anytime soon. Hope they are wrong. If not then it looks like a 1.5 G4 Imac in the next month or two. Yawn.
I knew you'd have something to say about this, DHM. I saw the profit figures, and the first thing to come to mind was, "Apple's making money and still turning a profit while other manufacturers aren't. What's DHM going to find to pick on?"
Apple is
making money! Get this through your head, man. The CEO that you've repeatedly claimed is killing Apple and should be gotten rid of? He's taken our favorite computer company from being massively in debt to be beind debt free and beyond. In 1997, Apple was in a death spiral, plummeting out of control, in debt, overcomplicated on the product line, and holding onto an OS that desperately needed an update.
Enter Steve Jobs, the prodigal son of Apple Computers.
Seven years later, the stock is strong, we have a fully modernized and amazing operating system, computers that are competitive on every front but your pet subject (gaming), Apple is out of debt, and they're fully allied with
the company that not only owns the most patents in the world, but also files for the most per year. IBM is
licensing the processes that they're putting in the PowerPC 900 series, selling SOI to AMD and nVidia while fabbing for both. Those NV6800s that I'm sure you're drooling over are manufactured by IBM machinery, on SOI 300mm wafers (another IBM strength), and thus benefitting from the same technology that is a
generation behind what IBM
is doing for us.
The next PowerPC 9xx will be using SSOI, something that no other chip manufacturer has yet. It will be concurrently designed with the Power5, arguably the most advanced chip on the market, and will benefit from the total redesign that IBM is applying to their own materials.
Second quarters are weak in technology. Everyone knows that, and every single one of you people that are grousing and carrying on that Apple hasn't live up to their promises have forgotten something: The year isn't up until at least WWDC (if you're strict) or the end of August (if you're somewhat lenient). People are getting bent out of shape over nebulous, unaccredited stories on a website. What happened to taking what you read on the 'net with a huge grain of salt, doing a little critical thinking, and having an ounce of patience. Yes, Motorola burnt us in the past, but that doesn't mean that it's going to happen again, and this time we're not on a chip that's a jumped-up embedded processor.
Oh, and I wouldn't care if the killed the iMac line tomorrow. Yes, all-in-ones are a hallmark of Apple, but maybe the form factor is getting a little long in the tooth, especially on such heat-intensive systems. Apple is known for wowing the world with what they do, and I'm waiting to see what happens next. Three years ago, if you'd told me that Apple would basically own the digital music distribution business, I'd have laughed.
Not so funny now, is it?
And while some may seem them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Think different.
