“As the Apple comeback unfolds, quarter after quarter, even its most diehard doubters – the sceptics who never tire of pointing out it has only 4 per cent of the PC market – are beginning to wonder where this run might end,” Stephen Ellis writes for The Australian. “Strong December quarter revenue, 14 million iPods sold in the same three months, and an earlier than expected switch to shipping computers based on Intel chips were the ostensible reason for the latest rally in Apple’s share price.”
“But the underlying momentum which has seen stock in the once-beleaguered computer maker climb from $US7 in mid-2003 to $US84 this week is powered by more than just the latest quarterly data,” Ellis writes. “Instead it represents a growing feeling on the part of many investors that Apple is positioning itself for something much bigger – an attack on the world’s living rooms, where the internet, digital photos, television and music are starting to converge.”
“Over the next couple of years it is likely that the slick consumer-oriented computers shipped by Apple and its competitors will look less and less like the dull machines that sit on your desk at work, and run software that is equally distinct. As this transition occurs, and devices such as stereos and televisions become increasingly tightly integrated with PCs, it is clear that the importance of simple, clean, useable user interfaces and functionality – exactly the areas of software design where Apple excels – will grow. (So will the importance of stability – nobody wants their TV or stereo to crash as often as most desktops still do). The success of the iPod and the ease of use and design of its other products hint that Apple has found a potent recipe for making complicated devices attractive and intuitive for consumers,” Ellis writes. “What Wall Street is really betting, then, is that Apple’s early lead in digital music, combined with these skills, will make it a big winner from the rise of digital media and integrated devices to display and play it – although nobody yet quite knows what form that victory will take.”
Full article here.
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Yea thanks “Macaday” for being such a brown nose teachers pet. Do you have a day job ?
MW HIGH: as in *sings* “Because i got high because i got high” Fsuk spell checker!
“Feeling grows among many investors that Apple is positioning itself for something much bigger”
And it’ll probably be cube shaped.
Poop-poop-de-doop.
If Apple is to be the mouse that roared then is Microsoft to be the dinosaur that …?
MW end
In the end there can be only one.
FTA: “For all the hype about the shift to Intel, however, all it really does is free Apple from a legacy decision that had made it increasingly uncompetitive in the PC market over the past few years, and put it back on a level footing with its rivals.”
Clueless. What it also does is position Apple to steal Micky Soft’s customers.
Bring on the big-ass Apple TVs!!! The electronics world will be shaken to its core this year. Steve Jobs ominously pointed out that April 1, 2006 will be Apple’s 30-year anniversary. He showed a pic of him and the Wizard of Woz marking Apple’s birth. I am convinced that Woz will be back April 1 either ceremoniosly or something bigger. The stage is set, and the clinks and clanks behind the Apple’s secret curtain are getting louder. Can you feel it? Within 6 months the intro of intel-based iMacs and MacBooks will seem insignificant. 2006 is the Year my friends. Apple is going freaking big time where the best belongs, at the top. OOOOHHHH BABY!!!!
On an unrelated note, Monkey Boy Ballmer is a big bouncing poop head!!!
Rally?
That implies that it is recovering from a setback.
Apples shares may have been in the doldrums for some time, but they are now surging ahead. NB surging!
John
MW John! What a coincidcence.
for the over-6 crowd?
John Crawford: “Rally? That implies that it is recovering from a setback.”
No, you are wrong… “Rally” does NOT imply “recovery from a setback” at all… it simply STATES unequivocally that investors are buying more stock than selling.
April 1st, 2006 is a Saturday. Any bets that we’ll see a flagship Apple store open on that day? Some other big event?
A few months ago, I read an article in the San Jose Murcury News or was it the San Fransisco Chonicle??? but anyway, the article was about all the additional floor space Apple was leasing. It went on to say something about all the new employees.
My opinion is that they don’t really need all the addtional employees if there isn’t something more coming down the tracks. After all, if they only kept the iPods and Macs, then why the additional people.
I still stand by my thoughts on this. There is something new. In fact when Apple Stock split last year, It was Mr. Jobs that said they have a lot of products in the works. That was in an interview. Can’t remember what one.
lol, that was funny ITAVOM.
I’ve heard that Steve Jobs is not into (actually “hates” may have been the word) any kind of nostalgia about company history. I think someone talked him into mentioning the anniversary, he grudgingly gave in, and that’s why it seemed kind of awkward and “ominous.” He just left it hanging because he didn’t really give a crap.
“I still stand by my thoughts on this. There is something new. In fact when Apple Stock split last year, It was Mr. Jobs that said they have a lot of products in the works. That was in an interview. Can’t remember what one.”
Doesn’t he say that in every interview?
I don’t know if anyone was really paying attention to what he actually said about the anniversary. He stated that he wasn’t sure what they were going to do for the anniversary. Oh, he’s sure alright and it’s going to BIG!
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Yeah… I got your BIG right here!!
(thrusts pelvis forward)
Maybe on the 30th Anniversary Steve is going to announce that he is buying Woodside, CA and plans to turn his home and the whole city into a theme park!
Lucky guess.
I’d love to see an adult content iTunes store, as long as it was made certain it was only accessable by adults of course. Apple wouldn’t do that though, totally not with their image lol, but some porn company could build a store designed around iTunes and iPod, and it it worked well, it could make a fortune, so long as the content was better than 99% of the porn out there anyways. Maybe I’m just picky, but most porn, I hate, because it’s either cheesey, poorly produced, amature, or done by moronic directors that don’t care about the value of art, they just want to make money, so they throw out crap and the sad thing is people buy it.
One of these days, if I’m ever a porn director, I’m gonna make a wonderful movie that wins some kind of major award or something.
“it is likely that the slick consumer-oriented computers shipped by Apple and its competitors”
I have a hard time imagining a slick consumer-oriented DELL computer
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I want Apple to acquire a gaming company and a major biz software player. Nothing wrong with dreaming. Right?
iTMS Pr0n section NOW!!!
eBay has got pr0n, so should iTMS!!!
GIVE US PORN!! GIVE US PORN!!!
MORE PORN!!!!
Girls Gone Wild!!!! Whooo hoooo!!!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – 2006 will be the year the Macintosh platform finally gets some respect!!!