“Despite the fact that no one has seen it, a new survey says that 21 percent of buyers are interested in purchasing an Apple tablet device,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “That demand, along with strong Mac and iPhone sales, is expected to propel the company’s stock.”
“In a survey of 3,100 people, more than a fifth said they are interested in Apple’s long-rumored tablet device, according to a new note to investors from RBC Capital Markets,” Hughes reports. “That’s well more than the 9 percent that said they were interested in the original iPhone in April 2007. The survey assumed that the product would be priced between $500 and $700 for its question.”
Hughes reports, “In addition to tablet buzz, iPhone and Mac sales are surging, analyst Mike Abramsky said. With all of those factors, he projects that AAPL stock will hit $250.”
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I bet it’s actually over 50%
51% anyone?
I’ll be very happy with 220 by the end of the year!
I bet the unnamed survey is by Changewave. Those guys are useless. They were the ones that created the survey that triggered Katie Huberty of Morgan Stanley to downgrade Apple twice in one week, early last year. Remember that? A Changewave survey was responsible for that. They said Mac sales were going to be off, and of course, they were wrong.
I think the survey is also wrong on the price. I don’t think you’ll see a tablet near $500, unless it’s subsidized for a data plan through ATT.
And no, Apple isn’t going to go with Verizon for the tablet. Steve is still pissed at VW for turning down the original iPhone, and Apple won’t produce a CDMA data tablet due to the system being phased out over the next year or two.
January 2010 can’t come soon enough!
54% of statistics are made up.
@Jamie: 54% of statistics are made up. Yeahbut, a hundred percent of the “stories” about the mythical tablet are made up
there is a huge percentage of people out there that have no idea what Apple is going to come up with next but **WANT** one. I on the other hand have no idea what Apple will come up with next but I am pretty sure I **NEED** it….
@ Anonymous:
Yes, I remember these analysts moves during that period of Fall ’08-Winter ’09 well. Both Katie Huberty and this other manipulator Abramsky slapped major downgrades on Apple’s stock that helped crush it and foment further panic in the market. At one point last winter, Abramsky put a $70 target on the stock at a time when $25-30 of the price was pure cash…indicating that Abramsky viewed the value of all of Apple’s non-cash assets at about $40-50 per share. And now, about 8 months later, he values the company at five times that amount!!??? My impression was that they both conveniently ignored the company’s huge cash position, great products, and tremendous momentum, and placed targets so low to purposely “create” the panic that would guarantee the stock would move dramatically lower. In my opinion, their motive was to manipulate the stock in service of their big client short sellers and hedge funds.
Interested? Maybe. But likely to buy one? I’d be surprised if it’s one percent of those surveyed. Shocked, actually. And that’s even at that price point, which is frankly ridiculous and so far away from any Apple logic as to be even ludicrous. Could Apple even make such a thing for the price of a few iPod nanos? Not bloody likely.
What do you call people who want vaporware?
Vaporheads?
P.S. If Apple is considering a tablet device, $500 to $700 is unlikely. Look for it in the $900 to $1200 range.