“While robust Mac sales are likely to drive Apple to yet another solid quarter, it will be discussion of iPhone metrics that dominate the firm’s fiscal third quarter conference call next week, according to Piper Jaffray… analyst Gene Munster,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“Munster said iPhone revenue will not be material to the company’s third quarter earnings, as the handset went on sale with only two days left in the quarter. Even if Apple managed to sell half a million units in that time, it would only account for an additional $12 million in immediately recognizable revenue due to the company’s plan to defer its iPhone accounting over a 24 month period, he explained,” Lane reports.
“Still, the analyst expects the focus of the company’s quarterly call to be weighted heavily towards discussion of the handset’s metrics. Like it does with Macs and iPods, Apple will be breaking out iPhone sales into a distinct data category. This means it will report precisely how many iPhone units it sells each quarter, beginning with the first two days of sales at the end of its third fiscal quarter ended June 30th,” Lane reports.
More in the full article here.
“Ballmer believes he invents the truth.”
he should go into poly-tics.
poly meaning many and tics meaning bloodsuckers….
MW: i wouldn’t pay one “cent” for a zune