“Apple’s iPhone will continue its meteoric rise next year, according to a new analyst report that finds that the smartphone will represent nearly 20 percent of the PC maker’s overall sales in 2009,” Judy Mottl reports for InternetNews.
“Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster predicts the iPhone 3G, which accounted for 5.7 percent of the company’s total sales this year, will total 18.4 percent in 2009,” Mottl reports. “Comparatively, Apple’s MacBook business, thanks to a lineup refresh in October that included four new notebooks, is projected to grow between 8 percent and 16 percent next year. The laptops are ‘selling well despite the weakened consumer confidence,’ Munster wrote in a report.”
“A recent study by IDC shows Apple’s iPhone holding 30.5 percent share in the U.S. smartphone market as of the third quarter. Research in Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry devices, held 40.5 percent,” Mottl reports. “The iPhone’s share of the market is only likely to have grown after the fourth quarter’s holiday numbers are in, according to Munster.”
“‘Apple has a large addressable base for iPhone and Mac sales from which it can draw in the coming years,’ Munster wrote,” Mottl reports.
“In terms of future Apple products, Munster added that he envisions devices that span features between the iPhone and MacBook portfolio. One could be an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000” Mottl reports. “Apple could also leverage its multi-touch patent portfolio for a touchscreen-based tablet PC design, with a similar price range and the feature set of a standard Mac notebook, according to Munster.”
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I can not understand why Apple has not released a multi-touch based tablet Mac yet. Investors are getting their teeth kicked in and several products could have been shipping already. And where is that Cut, Copy and Paste for Apple multi-touch devices? How about a better camera on the iPhone? iChat on the iPhone? They hacked iChat on the iPhone over a year ago in a competition!
But Katy Huberty (sp?) said sales would be down because consumers would retrench! (Maybe not, eh?)
Yeah, and where’s my flying car?!?
When will these investors start talking about a “Tablet Mac” instead of a “Tablet PC” when referring to their predictions about Apple? Apple do not make PCs, they make Macs! Surely their predictions are worthless if they can’t even make that distinction?
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Apple investors are getting their teeth kicked in not because of anything Apple is doing or anything Apple isn’t doing. They’re getting their teeth kicked in because of a general market decline triggered by the credit crash.
At the moment Apple stock is undervalued because it has been dragged down in the general panic. This doesn’t effect the company’s ability to do business in the slightest. If you truly are an Apple investor, you should be buying more stock while it’s a bargain.
Jersey_Trader,
You can thank Barney Frank and his ilk.
I suspect the iPhone halo effect will have a bigger impact on Mac sales than the iPod halo effect did. After all, the iPhone is much closer to a computer in its operation, and it runs a version of OS X.
No idea why anyone ever talks about a Mac tablet given that almost no-one uses the tablet format.
I bought a convertible tablet laptop and, after the first 2 months, have had it in its laptop shape ever since. A tablet requires you to use an arm to hold it up and typing is horrible even with Wacom handwriting recognition. Just a pain!
Apple is not under any obligation to make any particular product. No matter how much I’d like an Apple Toaster Oven, they aren’t going to make it. (That’s a job for Microsoft.) Just as they carefully choose what features to leave out, they also choose what products to leave out. Apple doesn’t feel the need to frenetically enter every market segment until they have divisions upon divisions failing to make a profit. (Again, that’s a job for Microsoft.) Of course, they might make a bad call and omit something promising, but it’s their call.
A 11 inch MacBook air for 800 $ is the greatest nonsense I have ever heard. If you want to make the MacBook air smaller, it wont get cheaper, it will be become much more expensive. So forget this idea.
And who want to use regular desktop software with a touchscreen. This is not very functional without modification of every single piece of software.
But Apple has already a Netbook in a very compact form, it is the ipod touch. Just spend the ipod touch a bigger screen an you have the perfect netbook / car entertainment and navigation device, universal display and remote controll. And the best thing is, Apple has already the operating system and the software, because every AppStore application work on a bigger screen, you may optimise it for a higher resolution but it principly works without change. So forget about a touch computer think about a bigger ipod.
Anyone looking for a Mac tablet would have bought an Axiotron Modbook by now. It’s a MacBook converted into a tablet.
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook
lol mac tablet makes no real world sense.
How about a mini-tower, as long as we’re winjing!
Apple hasn’t released a MacBook Touch or whatever you want to call it because of price. An iPhone, without subsidy from a wireless carrier, costs $700-$800 retail. Make it larger and it will cost more.
You can buy a MacBook with a larger screen for $1,200. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for a price point, or for Apple’s profit.
Apple won’t release a MacBook Touch until it can get better component prices, but you can bet that Apple has such a beast under development (and probably very close to production) in its labs.
Ok, take your Macbook. Tear off the screen and put it on your lap, just like you would a regular laptop. Or imagine your Macbook without the screen because the screen is under your hands.
This is what iMe looks like. A combo of Macbook air and iphone with a 13″ touchscreen. Please don’t ever call it a tablet.
The touchscreen is made of optical-quality glass and the back is sturdy aluminum. And it’s time to say bye-bye to the plastic keyboard
It’s beautiful. it’s evolutionary. It’s a culmination of everything we’ve done so far into one incredible device. And everyone will immediately want one.
BTW, you all are a bunch worthless pukes and are not even worthy of this amazing thing.
“This is what iMe looks like. A combo of Macbook air and iphone with a 13″ touchscreen. Please don’t ever call it a tablet.”
Steve, Steve, Steve. Of course, you’re almost right. The touchscreen will actually be 8 inches wide, 10.2 inches diagonal. 13 inch way too bulky. Moreover, it won’t be a Mac, but an ipod. Different OS. App store, etc. Mark my words
Reason for frustration is the abject crap that most companies make – Apple dont make crap, so they find themselves in a minority of approximately one.
Its easy to see Apple making cars, furniture, light fittings – because they have such a good design team who live in the real world.
If only Apple could run GM, Ford and Chrysler – they might make cars we could buy. Gasp! Shock! Horror!
So much crap in this world, so many phoney people like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
@Sarasota
Have you actually checked the price of those “tablets”? They are expensive and add weight rather than taking it away. Now, if you’re paying, I’ll take 2.
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Apple would make the best vehicles ever.
The tablet format is strictly for a vertically integrated market with limited use in the consumer market that Apple serves. If they wished to make it a sub feature of of one of their main product lines so that anyone who bought a MacBook could self convert then that would be a viable business case. Don’t be insanely silly and expect it to fall in the $800 to $1000 price range however. It’s not in their DNA
Found a great review for the iPhone here…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?bl&ex=1227934800&en=e69773c4efd24c5c&ei=5087
More to the topic, can we have a MattBook pleas Apple. As in a Matt screen option. Touch screen and gloss don’t mix very well.
I can’t believe that Obama uses a Blackberry. Those are for old stodgy business people. Isn’t he part of the young “hip” crowd? It’s such a disappointment.
Come on now Bill Gates is not an phony but Steve Ballmer is a flying idiot! Yes I was also disappointed that Obama uses a Blackberry and not an iPhone. I have tell you though if Apple did not make a smartphone I’d definitely have a Blackberry Storm or Curve. RIM and Sony are the closes thing to smart products with very good design sense. They just need to have an excellent OS and integrated support apps like iTunes. Ah but that is where then great divide starts. Also remember most Smartphone companies make a multitude of models whereas Apple did it all with just one incredible handheld computer phone. Now go on and beat that!
does anyone know what the release date is for the macbook pro quad?