“Investors are betting that Apple’s iPhone will be a hit with consumers,” Daniel Del’Re reports for TheStreet.com. But if the device somehow fails to live up to all the hype, what will keep the company’s sales afloat — and stock price rising — is, in a word, computers.”
Del’Re reports, “Apple’s increasingly popular Macs served as a ballast for sales and earnings growth in the last quarter as iPod sales took a breather.”
MacDailyNews Note: Last quarter, Apple sold 10,549,000 iPods, representing 24 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter. Some “breather.”
Del’Re continues, “‘Apple’s computer business gets lost in the iPhone buzz,’ says Richard Parower, a portfolio manager at J.W. Seligman, which holds Apple shares. ‘Investors have to keep in mind that there’s a lot more going on at the company.'”
“Offsetting [any other product] risks is Apple’s growing share of the computer market. Mac sales leapt 36% last quarter from a year ago, exceeding most analysts’ forecasts and tripling overall industry growth,” Del’Re reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
Whew… i’m getting whupped. OK, enough of a rest. Back to work.
Apple Inc. did drop the “Computers” from their name.
But yes, in my mind, the Macintosh OS is the best product they make.
I am buying three macs next week. One for myself ant two for the library.
They didn’t half go back to their drawing boards to draw strength! did they?
Good thing Macs are good for Graphics:-)
goodguy, I hope you’re not using the library’s money for YOUR mac!!
People forget that even without the iPod or iPhone…Apple is a very successful company selling computers. Go figure
goodguy, I hope you’re not using the library’s money for YOUR mac!!
Why would you think that? Actually I am using some of my money to buy the Library’s.
I have my head firmly stuck in MDN’s stink ass
Boy what a bootlicking asswipe, LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son this and LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son that.
JESUS FSCKING CHRIST MAN GET A FRIGGING LIFE!
Get the FSCK OUTTA YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT.
What you getting? Brownie points?
LET MDN DO THEIR JOB, THEY GET ALL THAT MONEY FROM ALL THE GODDAM ADS< MOUSE ROLLOVERS AND POP UNDERS THIS SITE PRODUCES!!
They have been doing fine for years and your just a FSCKING TOOL!!
AND MDN? SUCK MY ASS. I KNOW YOU”LL IP BAN ME FOR TELLING YOUR PUNK ASS TO FSCK OFF, BIG DEAL NO MORE LINUXGUY THIS AND THAT CRAP
LINUXGUY IS A LITTLE PUNK ASS!!
LINUX SUCKS ASS TOTALLY!!! IT DOESN’T EVEN WORK MOST OF THE TIME.
LINUX SUCKS LINUX SUCKS LINUX SUCK LINUX SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS EVEN WORSE THAN WINDOWS!!!
Goodnight and merry fscking holidays!!
WWDC is just 3 days away!!!!! Woo hoo!!!!!
I wouldn’t mind seeing that rant above disappear. What a jerk.
I do think MDN sending an email of thanks to LG&S; is enough. Every other article being accredited tells me MDN (Chris?) is doing other things rather than seeking out this stuff…
What the heck is THAT all about?
BIG DEAL!
So what if MDN thanks one of their readers about a forwarded story. I don’t care how the news gets to MDN, or if they’re “doing their job.”
Why is thanking a reader for the ‘heads up’ news? This has been going on for several months now.
Why are people upset about others being thanked?
Have your mommie make you a sandwich, then go have a lie down.
Maybe the BOD should vote to change the name from Apple, Inc. to Apple Computers, Inc. (Yes, with an ‘s’) – that’d get folks to think of the Mac instead of just iPods, iPhones and Apple TVs!
(sarcasm, obviously)
Does anybody else (or rather, did anybody else) cringe every time someone said Apple Computer_s_?
The old company name was singular, after all. But then again so was AT&T (at least in my area)
Gimme iPhone and half-dozen Macs to go.
I want to sincerely apologize for my outburst at LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son.
No joke, I’m the original person who posted that rant and it was uncalled for and out of line.
I won’t go into the reasons why, but I’ll watch what I drink the night before from now on.
Keep up the good news gathering LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son and don’t let my rant get you down.
Best regards, I’m a big asshole I know.