“Goldman Sachs said it doubled its estimate for the number of Apple Computer (AAPL) iPod shuffle portable digital music players sold in the March quarter to 1.8 million units. As a result, the broker said it is raising its estimates for the quarter to 24 cents from 22 cents a share and its fiscal year estimates to $1.12 from $1.08 a share. The broker told clients that ‘with competition unlikely to come from ‘me too’ MP3 players, it will probably take something like Sony’s PlayStation portable to pose a challenge to iPod long term,'” CBS MarketWatch reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Credit Suisse First Boston on Tuesday (see story) stated expectations for shipments of 1.5 million iPod shuffle units in addition to 4.2 million hard-drive-based iPods for a total of 5.7 million iPod units this quarter.
As we’ve stated previously regarding the Sony PlayStation Portable: PSP might be great for gamers, but the proprietary UMD format is typical Sony: introduce yet another format and complicate things unnecessarily. And, don’t forget, the PSP is about the size of a VHS video tape – it’s just physically too large to compete with iPod. These are different devices focused on different primary purposes; PSP plays games (and music secondarily) and iPod plays music (and games secondarily). Sony will probably sell a ton of these and Apple will also sell iPods to the many of the same people.
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Does Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) threaten Apple’s iPod? – March 14, 2005
The PSP, please, if that’s the best they’ve got….
err PSP?
OOOPs didn’t read enough. Mea culpa.
The PlayStation Portable!! Come onnnnn, people. Give me a break. I mean really, who’s going to want a PSP instead of de iPod? Maybe some PrettyStupid People! Yess. No, seriously, I don’t want to carry a little brick around in my . . . in my . . . oh wait, dat’s right. It’s too big to fit in any of my pockets. Yess. I guess I’ll have to carry it in my queer “fanny pack”. Come onnn. Like anyone wears those things anymore. They’re so 80’s. Besides, I already have one oversized unit to haul around with me! Yess, you know what I mean! Come onn, you love it! Yesss. But really, the PSP — different strokes for different folks, I like to say. Of course, that’s my whole approach to life, but dat’s another story. And the PSP — it still looks like something big enough . . .
FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Couldnt of said better Triumph
Triumph —
LOL
I definitely wanna check out your oversized iPod you’re carrying around. Lemme know if u need a hand
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play nice, everyone.
Close to 6 million ipods sold this quarter. F***ing A!!
Man Apple is going to be posting such a huge profit this quarter, it’s going to be unbelievable.
Question is when to sell my stock?
Just before the quarterly results come up – since the stock usually takes a dive afterwards.
OR
Hang on a ride the wave after the results – this is what happen last quarter.
Hmm…me needs to think about this…any ideas?
Neil, give me Power of Attorney, I will take care of your assets.