“Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer fielded questions on the company’s upcoming launch of Apple TV and iPhone, while also talking at length about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and strategies in the retail segment,” AppleInsider reports.
Highlights:
• Apple has no plans to license Mac OS X
• Apple’s iTunes has 400 movies for sale online
• Oppenheimer says iPhone to “redefine” mobile phone market
• March release for Apple TV reiterated
• 40 more Apple retail stores this year; 10 in locations outside the US
The full transcript the near 40 minute session here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
Wow, 40 minutes of already available public information.
“As an innovator, we don’t look at traditional market methodologies to think about how to develop products.”
Are you listening, other companies out there?
Whew, that was a work out. Good article, not too much news in there, but good to hear more financial news about my fave company.
l wish they made os to work with a normal pc. l want to come over to the mac but l still love my games. l carn`t afford a mac pro way too much and a crappy videocard. anyway l guess l can just dream. hehe
I didn’t realize the X1900 was considered crappy.
So Paul, if you play games on a PC, then an X1900 is not a crappy video card indeed.
Play games on your PC – do everything else on your new shiny Mac.
Apple’s CFO said:
“We believe that consumers would be best served in a marketplace where any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store could sell music that would be playable on any player. We think this is the best result for consumers and Apple would embrace it wholeheartedly. In terms of the financial impact, that remains to be seen. We’ve sold over 2 billion songs, 50 million TV shows, 1.3 million movies. We’ve provided a great experience to customers, and we think we have the best solution out there. We’re going to continue to invest in the iPod and in iTunes, and we stand ready to compete.”
Exactly right. Well said. Bravo!
Music wants to be DRM-free.
Apple has no plans to license Mac OS X
Apple has no plans to license Mac OS X
Apple has no plans to license Mac OS X