“While some industry watchers have argued that Apple is diversifying its business too dramatically, analysts at investment research firm Piper Jaffray said Wednesday they believe the company is actually preparing to more closely focus its business and consumer electronics segments around the central core of its Mac OS X operating system,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“Reacting to Apple’s just-announced media event next Wednesday, analyst Gene Munster and his research team said the Cupertino-based firm appears ripe to usher in its holiday iPod offerings during the event, which are likely to include radical redesigns of the flagship video iPod and iPod nano,” Marsal reports.
“‘We expect that the new pods will be based on a modified version of Apple’s operating system, OS X. Currently, Macs, the iPhone, and Apple TV run on OS X, and with these OS X-based iPods, Apple would have an entire line of consumer electronics products based on OS X,’ Munster wrote in a note to clients,” Marsal reports. “‘Instead of diversifying its business too dramatically, as some have argued, we believe Apple is focusing its business.'”
“Munster maintained his “Outperform” rating on shares of Apple with a price target of $211 a share,” Marsal reports.
More in the full article here.
Rock on Steve. Keep aapl heading up and up. Mama needs a nicer retirement.
Rollover Expanding Ads are working GREAT on my
iPhone guys. Keep-up the good work.
Hope you’re making tons of money…
Thanks again in advance,
E R
I wonder if the sales of iPhones, AppleTVs, and hopefully new iPods (all running MacOS X) will be counted toward OS X’s market share?
If so, watch market share go thru the roof!
Newton by stealth
Apple writes software to sell hardware. It’s been that way from the beginning, it is that way now.
“I wonder if the sales of iPhones, AppleTVs, and hopefully new iPods (all running MacOS X) will be counted toward OS X’s market share?”
No, that would be just like saying everything out there that runs some form of Linux, or everything that runs some form of Windows should also count toward their PC marketshare numbers as well.
\”Apple\’s core is Mac OS X\”
Umm, does anyone know what this Katie Marsal looks like? Cuz she sure seems to post a lot of stories, and I gotta tellya — if she\’s bitchin\’ hot I sure would like to drill down into her core.
Hers, or that uptight ChrissyOne\’s.
@TMAN
Those dumb terminal already do.
@Pedal –
I’m pretty sure that ChrissyOne is a hairy, 45-yr-old ‘nix programmer named Frank wearing a w00t! t-shirt with cheese doodle crumbs in his lap.
uh… you are so wrong
oh, and one more thing… the “uptight ChrissyOne” is the impostor. C1 is actually fairly free spirited, lives in Seattle, and has a hell of a sense of humor.
“No, that would be just like saying everything out there that runs some form of Linux, or everything that runs some form of Windows should also count toward their PC marketshare numbers as well.”
They do. Processor card upgrades and all sorts of crap count.
ChrissyOne/Frank is also, I’m fairly sure, Jim – TIV. And Dick Van Patten.
Glad to know I’m so famous. (thanks for the d, Jim.)
Sorry, I don’t have time to chat, I have to go clean the cheese puffs off my PWNED t-shirt and go to my Linux users group meeting. G’night all!
-Frank
(See what happens when I make my MySpace private?)
“a hairy, 45-yr-old ‘nix programmer named Frank”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
@yikes…
“ChrissyOne/Frank is also, I’m fairly sure, Jim – TIV. And Dick Van Patten.”
lol.. nah. She’s much funnier than DVP… and me too for that matter.
C2, is that available on velvet?
Anyone remember the reason Steve gave for canning the Newton? One company can’t maintain two operating systems.
See Cramer did his job well on Friday, lots of volatility, lots of trades.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5d&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=&c=^IXIC
“Anyone remember the reason Steve gave for canning the Newton?”
The billion dollar development cost with negligible ROI and his disgust and hatred for John Sculley?
Canning is a tried and true tradition. I like beets.
Apple’s core is hardware sales
Mac OS X on all that hardware is just necessary, uniform, saves money and gives a lot of future options.
Want a video iPod to download a movie from a iTV? Or a iPhone to upload pictures to a Dot Mac account?
No problem.
Beleaguered Options Scandal Bites Shine from Apple’s Core.
MW: ‘things’ (people print to get clicks)
This is so counter to Johnny D’s predictions that Apple is and has been planning on exiting the OS business it is amazing.
Johnny D, to be so absolutely wrong about a major player in the tech industry year after year, day after day, it is just amazing he has any credibility left. At least for me, he doesn’t.