“Analysts from UBS Investment Research have just returned from meeting with Apple executives in Cupertino, which focused primarily on on the company’s Intel Mac transition, AppleInsider has learned,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. “Apple executives at the meeting included Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, Senior VP of Retail Ron Johnson, Senior VP of Product Marketing Phil Schiller. In addition to the Intel transition, conversations also focused on Apple’s retail division and the future of the iPod.”
“The analyst also discussed Adobe and Microsoft’s software transition plans at length during the meetings. ‘Our research indicates that new Power Macs could be announced with Intel processors by September, but Apple’s Rosetta emulation software should still be needed to run Adobe’s major high-end applications like Photoshop at that time,’ Reitzes wrote. Still, he believes Power Mac sales could be adversely impacted well into 2007 fiscal year, given comments made by Adobe management that it will not update its key creative professional products for Intel Macs until the spring 2007,” Jade reports.
“Apple retail stores surveyed by UBS showed a very positive reaction to the MacBook Pro in terms of pent-up demand that could be realized later this year. ‘Our surveys and conversations with Apple reveal the level of inquiries regarding the new MacBooks is extremely high, and it is clear that with more models and more applications, Mac sales can benefit,’ Reitzes said. ‘As a result, we believe any slowdown in consumer Mac shipments is only a matter of timing over the next 2-5 months.’ Looking ahead, UBS believes Apple is hard at work on innovations and is set to announce several new products into 2007. Some of the potential products listed by the firm include a digital hub, iPod speakers and an Apple-branded cell phone,” Jade reports.
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somebody go kick adobes asses into shape!
Personally, I think it would be really cool if Apple put together their own design suite, blow Adopie out of the mac market and then, for good measure, release the suite for windows.
That would be sweet.
Buy AAPL while it’s still “on sale.”
Given that SJ already told the world they’ll have all the Macs to Intel by the end of the year predicting by September isn’t exactly rocket science.
An Apple design suite would be great but it would take a while before it could compete on a professional level. The first release wouldn’t cut it. Is Quark for sale?
I wish I had a lot of money back when Apple stock was $9/share. I knew it would go up.
http://musobs.blogspot.com/
if wishes were dollars
i wouldnt need any apple stock
You know, Adobe products have barely been getting better since 2000, all their new editions barely have anything new to them, i guess once a software becomes to big, it slows down
I actually liked photoshop 6 alot better than the latest they have now (CS2)
I actually liked dreamweaver 5 alot better than what they have now (8)
I actually liked fireworks 4 alot better than what they have now ( 8 )
So i guess it probably wouldnt take a while for Apple to become pro if they were to release something cute.
MND— Check this out—–Anything behind this??
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/08/1gb-ipod-nano-screen-dimmer-than-the-2-4gb-versions/
Screw Adobe. Don’t give them ANY business until their updated products are out. If that doesn’t motivate them…
As for the Intel PowerMacs, I’m just waiting to buy one, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Apple, we’re ready when you open the gates.
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G-ZUS wrote:
“I wish I had a lot of money back when Apple stock was $9/share. I knew it would go up.”
Yeah lots of woulda-coulda-shoulda here too. HOWEVER… What if MS had perfected Windows in 98 or XP? What if Mac OS X had been a dud? Or the iPod? How much stomach do we really have in any tech company?
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Rule #1 of Investments: Never invest money you can’t afford to lose.
DUH!!!
Like that really was a tough guess since Intel is so “public” with it’s roadmap and processor release dates.
Come on, tell us something we don’t know.
I’m not even going to bother giving this idiot hit traffic.
Now that (by the time I make the Intel switch) I will be doing most of my heavy photo processing using Apple’s Universal Aperture, running PhotoShop in Rosetta will not be that big a deal.
I guess I won’t be needing to upgrade PhotoShop after all!
If only has a bit of competition – like Macromedia – then we’d be seeing a race between GoLive and DreamWeaver to be first out with Universal support. And, I suppose, between Illustrator and Freehand as well. Maybe the other flaship products would have also released in advance of their glacial schedule?
If wishes were horses, we’d all be eating steak!
“She understands, but she doesn’t comprehend.”
Power Macs? Nah! PowerPCs are yesterday. Core Duos are the way of the future. They’ll be rechristened Mac Pros. Maybe Mac Duos. But not Power Macs.
Sumer, you are kidding right? Dreamweaver and Fireworks are Macromedia, unless I’m missing an inside joke.
justin black:
MND— Check this out—–Anything behind this??
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/08/1gb-ipod-nano-screen-dimmer-than-the-2-4gb-versions/
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Its just a precaution, so someone doesn’t sue Apple becaust the iPod “might” make them go blind.
becaust=because
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I’ve seen quite a few comments about how Apple should just release some Pro graphics apps and “blow Adobe out of the water”. This is a bit simplistic. In the professional graphics/printing world, Adobe apps are pretty heavily relied upon and are generally speaking quite good. I’m not going to get technical about it, but for example, “The Gimp”, while good software, is NOT anywhere near being a replacement for Photoshop for most professionals. I will mention one more thing — RIP compatability. It’s difficult enough for Adobe to comply with their own standards for PDF creation, much less for anyone else. PDF in the professional world is a lot more complex than your standard web downloaded ebook PDF. While I do not think that Adobe is in any way invulnerable to being downgraded in importance by some serious innovation, it’s not just “that easy”. They are light years ahead of everyone else, and we STILL, to this day have issues with various RIPs interpreting PDFs differently, blah blah blah… so please understand that you downloading your pirated copy of Photoshop off LimeWire and messing around with web images is very different than actually being a print or graphics professional.
On a lighter note — read this sentence… really really read it: “Looking ahead, UBS believes Apple is hard at work on innovations and is set to announce several new products into 2007. “
Is that sentence in any way meaningful?!?!
iSteve,
my thoughts exactly.
In fact, there’s nothing new here, but UBS dress it up as if they have high level contacts and access to important information.
The truth is, they went along and were told nothing new and were probably hardly given time to finish their coffee.
They then use such sentences as:-
“Analysts from UBS Investment Research have just returned from meeting with Apple executives in Cupertino”
It’s called spin.
I remember looking at AAPL when it was $13 a share, back when all the rumours of a Universal purchase has sent the stock down. Looking then, Apple was only valued at $4.8Bn, but had $4.1Bn in cash. It was a no-brainer that it was going to go up. If the Apple Board themselves couldn’t turn it around, then someone was going to step in and snap the company up.
However, although I had £20k going spare at the time, I decided not to jump in. I’ve had my fingers seriously burned on the markets in the past, and with interest rates rising, I decided to pay a lump sum off the mortgage instead.
To be honest though, I never would have made obscene profits. Even if I’d bought in, I probably would have sold at the pre-split $35 mark, which I believe was around the point when Apple passed Sun in value.
And of course, now I know again the stock is going to go up, but as luck would have it the Inland Revenue are giving my company a compliance check, so I don’t want to touch the money I have in case I urgently need it. Apparently despite my having multiple simultaneous clients and delivering costed projects to pre-set deadlines, the fact that there is only me in the company means the Revenue believes that all along I’ve been a disguised employee of my clients and have been underpaying tax. The fact that this would mean I’ve had well over 20 permanent jobs over the last five years, and sometimes as many as five permanent jobs at the same time seems to be lost on them, as well as the fact that I use all my own equipment, pay for my own training, and have to act as salesman, technical consultant, and book keeper, but when did common sense ever penetrate the skulls of the Civil Service?
Well, that’s that off my chest. Sorry to offload. And now to bring my mood back to it’s usual level, here’s a smiley.
From article: “Apple management reportedly remains confident that most software applications for the common user will run smoothly…”
Think different, don´t be a “common user”.
I am waiting until the pro software is ready from Adobe/Macromedia.
(I have Windows and Mac computers running Adobe software. It is the Adobe software that has made me the money – it doesn´t matter what computer it is in.)
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And why does everyone here wish that Apple had a monopoly on all software that runs in Macs????
Protect yourself, Apple. Buy Adobe.
Don’t be surprised when Jobs stands up at a presentation and illustrates Photoshop running under Rosetta on an Intel PM that is so fast that it actually runs Photoshop faster than on the current G5s. Then comes the line . . . “Just imagine what it will do when Adobe goes dual binary.”