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Apple's Q2 2006 Financial Results

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carletonmusic said:
People stopped buying iBooks. That's one reason mac sales were a bit slower. From a quarterly perspective, it makes great sense the way Apple has smoothed out its product updates:

Q4: Holiday rush, iPod sales carry the company
Q1: MacBook Pro, MacMini, and iMac sales help get the transition going
Q2: MacBook and 17" MacBook Pro continue the transition
Q3: Powermac (intel) updates complete the transition + 10.5 Leopard preview
Q4: New iPod in time for holidays (10.5 available for purchase too?).

This always gives investors something to look forward to instead of just updating everything at once and hoping that an effect is immediately visible.
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Q1 is the holiday season. the results are for the previous 3 months.
 
Rocketman said:
The article states this is the first time Windows is allowed to run on Macs.

Nope. Apple "allowed" VPC for years.
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I don't know that I'd call VPC "running". Moseying? Crawling?
 
I definitely think that the Mac's market share is going to grow substantially over the next (at least) 2 years.
I myself am not at Mac owner at the moment, but I'm saving money up for the MacBook Pro to buy next month (hopefully).
I see many people I know, really considering buying a Mac next time (because of the Intel transition ofcourse), even though they have never tried one themselves, and these are danish folks, people! :eek: ;)
 
Mars said:
Am I the only one to consider Steves' statement of "...music business..." being a rather risky "naming" in respect to the ongoing law-suit from Apple Corps.?:eek:
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Don't you mean Apple Corpse? That company's been dead for ten years, Lawsuits against apple are probably the only revenue that they get right now. You can only re-release Beatles albums so many times.
 
stock

Apple's stock is up almost 3 dollars after the news. This is interesting because Apple's earnings were lower than what most had forecast. I think many had feared the intel transition would cripple Apples sales for this quarter but now found out that is not true. Things are only going to get better the next few quarters with macbook, new 17inch macbook pro that apple insider says will have some new bells and whistles and HOPEFULLY the VOIP Mac Phone....:cool:
 
DPazdanISU said:
Apple's stock is up almost 3 dollars after the news. This is interesting because Apple's earnings were lower than what most had forecast.
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Consensus was 43 cents per share...AAPL came in at 47 cents.

Linkety
 
DPazdanISU said:
Apple's stock is up almost 3 dollars after the news. This is interesting because Apple's earnings were lower than what most had forecast.
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Not according to what I've seen online. They delivered 47 cents, estimates were a concensus of 43 cents.
 
SPUY767 said:
Don't you mean Apple Corpse? That company's been dead for ten years, Lawsuits against apple are probably the only revenue that they get right now. You can only re-release Beatles albums so many times.
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The Beatles brand is worth billions.

The current Beatles releases (CD) are, without doubt, the poorest quality of any major act. Seriously, they stink. Just listen to 'Eleanor Rigby' from the remastered 'Yellow Submarine' film soundtrack versus the version on 'Revolver'. No comparison.

The point? There is a HUGE market in Beatles reissues. The albums are of substandard audio quality, and will be remastered in stereo and 5.1 eventually. Three of the films 'Help!", "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Let it Be" have never been released on DVD. There are boat loads of live footage, and unreleased material still out there (despite the 1996 Beatles Anthology, the vast majority of recordings remain unreleased).

The earning power of The Beatles remains huge.
 
7on said:
My iPod is 3 years old and I have no reason to upgrade. ;)
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I'm in this boat too.... I could sort of see wanting a new one, and I could use more space. But iTunes manages my music well enough that its easy to live with only 15GB on my iPod for me, and there are soooo many other things to spend money on. I can always spend $30 or $40 and just replace the battery in this one. :eek: So until/unless the HD wears out or it breaks in another fashion.... *crosses fingers*

EDIT: What's up with news articles discussing Apple's profits and sales, and only discussing quarter on quarter? They should know better...but I saw several of these that highlighted the quarter on quarter drop in Mac and iPod sales and never really talked about the SPIT comparison with Q2/05.... :rolleyes:
 
William25 said:
I think that the 4% growth is a result of people waiting for the new macbooks.I sold my iBook G3 600mhz for $500 a few months back. It’s too bad I really needed a computer or I would have waited to buy the new iBook. As it is I had to buy a G4 iBook seeing I’m constantly traveling.
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r u gonna sell the G4 when the "macbook" gets here?
 
7on said:
My iPod is 3 years old and I have no reason to upgrade. ;)
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I refuse to upgrade my iPod Mini until Apple releases another aluminum iPod! I'm not going to buy something that has to have a metal cage around it just so it doesn't scratch all to hell. Christ, my Silver iPod Mini has been dropped numerous times, thrown around, slides around in my pocket with other items and there is only 1 tiny scratch on the PLASTIC display cover. The aluminum is good as new. Dumbest thing Apple ever did was make the iPod Nano out of plastic!!!
 
tituspullo said:
carletonmusic said:
People stopped buying iBooks. That's one reason mac sales were a bit slower. From a quarterly perspective, it makes great sense the way Apple has smoothed out its product updates:

Q4: Holiday rush, iPod sales carry the company
Q1: MacBook Pro, MacMini, and iMac sales help get the transition going
Q2: MacBook and 17" MacBook Pro continue the transition
Q3: Powermac (intel) updates complete the transition + 10.5 Leopard preview
Q4: New iPod in time for holidays (10.5 available for purchase too?).

This always gives investors something to look forward to instead of just updating everything at once and hoping that an effect is immediately visible.
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Q1 is the holiday season. the results are for the previous 3 months.
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Yeah, probably didn't realize that Apple's fiscal year starts around October and confused it with the calendar quarters.
 
aswitcher said:
Is there any breakdown of which Macs sold what volumes, or which iPods sizes sold what?
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Nope...they stopped doing that a year or two ago...I think they felt too much information was being given out that competitors might be able to take advantage of (like where their relative strengths and weaknesses were).
 
In Q1, they said Apple shipped 667,000 desktop units and 587,000 laptop units, alltogether 1,254,000 Macs.

I guess, these numbers will be published. Did anyone see these numbers for Q2?

EDIT: Thanks for the link, rdowns.
 
Cinematographer said:
In Q1, they said, Apple shipped 667,000 desktop units and 587,000 laptop units, alltogether 1,254,000 Macs.

I guess, these numbers will be published. Did anyone see these numbers for Q2?
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See the link posted by rdowns right above your post... :D
 
Here are some recent numbers- Macs sold

1Q2002 - 659,000
2Q2002 - 813,000
3Q2002 - 808,000
4Q2002 - 734,000

1Q2003 - 743,000
2Q2003 - 711,000
3Q2003 - 771,000
4Q2003 - 787,000

1Q2004 - 743,000
2Q2004 - 749,000
3Q2004 - 771,000
4Q2004 - 787,000

1Q2005 - 1,046,000
2Q2005 - 1,070,000
3Q2005 - 1,182,000
4Q2005 - 1,236,000

1Q2006- 1,254,000
2Q2006- 1,112,000
 
And here are some slightly older numbers to illustrate the levels Apple is getting back to:

1Q2000 - 1,377,000
2Q2000 - 1,043,000
3Q2000 - 1,016,000
4Q2000 - 1,122,000

1Q2001 - 659,000
2Q2001 - 751,000
3Q2001 - 827,000
4Q2001 - 850,000
 
So for the last few quarters, we get the following numbers of desktop and laptop units:

Q2 2005 1,070,000 Macs:
608,000 Desktop units & 462,000 Laptop units

Q3 2005 1,182,000 Macs:
687,000 Desktop units & 495,000 Laptop units

Q4 2005 1,236,000 Macs:
602,000 Desktop units & 634,000 Laptop units

Q1 2006 1,254,000 Macs:
667,000 Desktop units & 587,000 Laptop units

Q2 2006 1,112,000 Macs:
614,000 Desktop units & 498,000 Laptop units

But I'm quite confident the laptop numbers will rise again as soon as the Mac Book starts shipping.
 
Peace said:
Not being the financial wiz I once was can someone tell me what month Q2 2006 end in ?
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March...I guess technically they said it ended April 1st.
 
WildCowboy said:
March...I guess technically they said it ended April 1st.
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Thanks Cowboy..That's what I thought..

Next quarter's gonna see improvements in the laptop AND desktop sales but I don't think the iPod can sustain a 60% growth for much longer..And that's a big chunk of Apple's revenues..

The educational market seems important to the projections for next quarter..

Come On MacBook,or iBook,or whatever they call it!! :D
 
Peace said:
Thanks Cowboy..That's what I thought..

Next quarter's gonna see improvements in the laptop AND desktop sales but I don't think the iPod can sustain a 60% growth for much longer..And that's a big chunk of Apple's revenues..
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You're welcome. As I pointed out in this post, Apple is predicting a slight dip in iPod sales for this quarter. This will bring the iPod annual growth under 40%.
 
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