“Needham & Co analysts yesterday raised their Apple price target from $83 to $104.. ‘We’re also raising our earnings per share estimates – from $1.85 to $2.05 in fiscal 2005 and from $2.25 to $2.50 in 2006. Maintain Buy,’ wrote analyst, Charles Wolf. Wolf observes that Apple’s at a crossroads with a recovery that begins with the launch of OS X, an OS that is now ‘light years ahead of Windows,'” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“Apple’s inspired realization that consumers were ready to shift to digital consumer electronics products also helps. Its software and operating system means the company now offers the best collection of applications for the time, he adds. With the iPod and affordable Mac mini now available to consumers the company has a good opportunity to win Windows converts, he said, describing this as a ‘one-two punch.’ With Apple’s epoch appropriate software likely to keep those Windows switchers on the platform,” Evans reports.
“Despite these opportunities, Wolf is conservative in his assessment of the value of Windows-switchers to Apple’s bottom-line. His predictions are based on just 11 per cent of iPod-owning Windows users switching to Mac, with one in ten of these later abandoning the platform,” Evans reports. “With Mac mini’s selling strongly worldwide, Wolf says: ‘It’s possible, then, that the actual switch rate by Windows users could end up far higher than we’ve forecast,’ he said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mac mini unit sales have to be one of the most-anticipated number from Apple ever. April 13, 2005 is when we’ll find out about Apple’s Q2’05 earnings.
At least he didn’t say, “The iPod is great!” I’m sick, sick, sick of iPod news do you hear me world! The Mac is the product! The Xserve is a fantastic enterprise level server. All you wacky creative firms with dozens of La Cie drives waiting to go bad, get a frickin Xserve and Xserve RAID!!!!
I downloaded a video o Jobs demoing NextStep (when he had lots of brown hair) and its funny to see that most of OS X and some Tiger functions existed a long time ago. So in reality OS X is really light years ahead since it was born a long long time ago…
I think they’ll be off the charts. I don’t think they would have split the stock unless they were quite certain they’d have great news in April.
Post the link, RCL! Wanna see it!!!
Mac mini top of Amazon top selling desktops list and they haven’t even got any in stock.
“In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.”
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/pc/565098/002-3478090-6601669
AND at Amazon’s “Most wished for electronics items”, Apple or Apple related items account for 17 of the top twenty five items!!!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/handle-generic-form/103-0856830-2517453?action=next-page&target=templates/zg.html&zg;.dimension-id=03&zg;.product-group=ce&x=7&y=10
Realist… Check this link… It might be in there…
http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/movies.html
I’m watching that vid now of Steve demoing NextStep. Damn! He was a fine muthaf*cka
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The full article link above goes to a Macworld UK site. So I went to Needham to look for the article, typed Apple into their search box and realized why they said OS X is light years ahead. Here’s the search result.
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another good site for apple movies:
movies.differentdistrict.com
(register in the forums to login and see all the movies)