“Shares of Apple Computer Inc. slipped 4 percent Tuesday, after an analyst said the company will likely not be holding a special 30th anniversary event as some industry observers expected,” The Associated Press reports. “UBS analyst Benjamin A. Reitzes, said in a client note Tuesday that according to unnamed industry sources the company will not be holding a special event around April 1 to mark its anniversary — though he added he still expects the company to announce new products to be announced in the near term.”
“‘We continue to believe that Apple will introduce new Intel-based iBooks (important for education) and a larger MacBook Pro in the June quarter,’ the analyst wrote,” AP reports.
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MacDude says: “And I got dibbs on the dumpsters, all sorts of good info in there.”
You will have to push Gates and Balmer aside – where do you think MS gets all their best ideas for their system upgrades… why from discarded Apple ideas and they are still a big improvement of the existing crap. The dumpsters behind APple – more commonly referred to as MS R&D department.
MW “down” as in MS is going DOWN!
Apple would be nuts not to have some sort of event. Even if they don’t introduce any new products they could get huge publicity just by doing a celebration of 30 years of innovation and recapping everything they did first and best then capping it all with a preview of Leopard to blow everyone away. If they just announced it as a celebration of 30 years of apple it would probably even lower expecations and thus any potential disappointment if they didn’t introduce a phone or video iPod etc
Greg Nacu
“Stock price dropping a few percentage points clearly means nothing. Except maybe that it’s an opportunity to buy in.”
StockBoy
“LOL
All you wanna´be stock experts here. Apple stock has dropped about 30%!!!
Apple has the perfect potential bad news storm a brewing – big problems in France and EU whipping around, iPod sales maturing (who doesn´t own one?), Intel processor issues – lack of them and problems with them, rumors of products exceed reality (which causes people to hold off on purchases), will Apple announce Mactel iBooks in time for school district purchases?
The only good thing that has happened to Apple is Microsoft fumbling and delaying Vista.”
Apple has never been stronger. It’s potential right now is through the roof. The only thing going against it is speculation and false hope. And that’s all this latest incident was. Everyone gets all hyped up about something that’s barely realistic, and then when we find out that reality reigns supreme over fantasy… Apple’s stock price drops a few percentage. What a joke. As long as Apple continues to actually inovate and produce great products, they’ll continue to do well. MacBook replacements for the iBook ARE on the way. So is Leopard. So a bunch of analysts scared some people into sellling some of their stock. Big whoop.
Better watch mentioning “kiddie” and “porn” in the same post, even if it’s a joke, they are flagging those words now and logging IP addresses using Echelon, you might be in for a nasty visit.
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You’ll probably find Gates in that dumpster. It’s just like the diving he did at Harvard looking for other people’s work.
I like MacDude´s comments. What he says is a breath of fresh air to all the “apple is god, apple can do no wrong” chest beating by 99% of the comments here.
Take a visit to http://www.macfixit.com if you want to get a jolt of reality with our macs.
Apple stock is posed to take a nose dive.
1: The fad stock has peaked.
2: Apple doesn’t have the technology to create something like a MyVue.
3: Hollywood is not cooperating with a online movie service because “duh” the DRM isn’t strong enough, and that won’t happen until Trusted Computing is in full force. Which it can’t because Mac OS X (and the Trusted Computing chip) has been hacked.
MacDude, you are a loser. Please go somewhere else. You are a waste of space here. Before you you started posting your dribble here, this forum used to be interesting to read. The rest of us (excluding your alter ego Sputnik) would all apreciate it if youd just move along to some there interest an leave the Mac community altogether.
Just visited MacFixit. It does seem that there a lot of little issues with the MacBook Pro. It’s hard to tell just what percent of the MacBook Pro owners are experiencing these problems, but it may explain why no new products are being introduced right now. Everyone at Apple is on bug stomping duty.
Make up your mind, jackasses. ‘Apple slumped because of the French’. ‘Apple slumped because an anal ist said no public announcments on the 30th’. ‘Apple slumped because Jane Fonda licked my anus.’
Macdude you don’t know what you’re talking about so why bother typing.
“Apple slumped because Jane Fonda licked my anus.”
Is that out on DVD yet? I always thought Barbarella would get sucked into a black hole eventually.
HEy MacDude haters. Just because someone has a different viewpoint, you don’t need to personally attack him.
You intolerant idiots.
Well, if “MacDude” hates Apple so much, why is he hanging around on an Apple news site? And thanks for the link, MacFanBoy…though I’ve never had any of the problems that seem to be featured over there — I’ve had two small kernel panics, both when I left the computer on sleep overnight; I can live with that.
I heard that there’s going to be something going on over in Cupertino late next week (and I’m going to be in SoCal, rats) — I’m expecting it’s going to be the rollout of Apple’s Pro level applications (FCP, Aperture, etc.) as Universal Binaries, along with the announcement of Core Duo tower systems to come out in the June quarter. This is something more of interest to the pro user community, so it wouldn’t have the big splash of a general consumer product, and Steve estimated during his keynote that it would be about March or April before the Pro level apps went Universal (IIRC). It also might put some pressure on Adobe to speed up the Universal versions of their products, though I still think they’ll be rolling out Universal CS3 at MacWorld next January.
I read they have a Single Core that’s going into iBooks, I’ve never heard any promise to put the Dual in the Consumer/School version.
“WTF does performance per watt mean?”
PPW is basically a term used to describe the amount of “performance” or processing power you can get from the least amount of power consumption – thus cooler running processors. This is another reason CPU makers are going with multi-cores – each core is working less but you are getting the same amount (or more) of processing power because of the multiple cores. I don’t know the theorectical limits of processor speed, but when you put a high clock rate processor under heavy load they get hot (heat is the enemy to your processor) – thus the need for less power consumption.
Another analyst MORON.
Single Core iBooks make sense — it’s a way to keep the price down, and also distinguishes them from the Pro series books.