“Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group said Monday Apple Inc. may roll out a thinner iPad with a built-in camera and mini-USB drive by June, later than some others have projected,” Cromwell Schubarth reports for The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
“Sales of tablet computers from Apple and others could reach 16 million units this year and 35 million in 2011, Goldman Sachs projected,” Schubarth reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, right, “and others.” Puleeze. 15,999,996 iPads and four non-Apple tablets to the Ballmer household.
Schubarth reports, “Apple sold more than 3 million iPads in the 80 days after they were introduced in April, instantly becoming one of its best-selling products.”
Full article here.
Guess that means Goldman is short on Apple. Or maybe not? You never know what side Goldman is actually playing. The sad thing is that people like me waste time reading their prognostications, hoping that perhaps once there will be some grounding for it other than pure speculation.
Guess that means Goldman is short on Apple. Or maybe not? You never know what side Goldman is actually playing. The sad thing is that people like me waste time reading their prognostications, hoping that perhaps once there will be some grounding for it other than pure speculation.
Goldman Sachs…Now that name rings a bell..
Goldman Sachs…Now that name rings a bell..
Which school, city or country is going to get screwed this time?
Which school, city or country is going to get screwed this time?
Until June ?
Apple will not sit in a rocking chair. Facetime alone is going to be a big push for an update to the iPad architecture. The iPad is not going to lag the iPhone by such a large chunk of time.
Until June ?
Apple will not sit in a rocking chair. Facetime alone is going to be a big push for an update to the iPad architecture. The iPad is not going to lag the iPhone by such a large chunk of time.
No big-name analyst can allow themselves to be exuberant about Apple (or any other company for that matter), because, regardless of merit, nobody would take them seriously. They must tone down any optimism, since the entire planet is in a financial crisis, so by default, it is simply impossible that any one company could be doing that well.
This also applies to reporters covering these analysts, such as this Shubarth fellow from San Jose Business News. Not one single sentence is completely correct, but just vaguely close to being correct:
“Apple sold more than 3 million iPads in the 80 days after they were introduced in April, instantly becoming one of its best-selling products.”
It is not one of its best-selling products; it is THE best selling product of all time. Not Apple, and not anyone else, has ever sold a product in such numbers so quickly.
It is really annoying when, in a rush to meet a deadline, everyone just goes into the CYA mode (cover-your-ass), rather than do a bit of googling and actually verify the numbers, so that they can say it correctly.
There are very, very few publications today that still have fact checkers on staff.
No big-name analyst can allow themselves to be exuberant about Apple (or any other company for that matter), because, regardless of merit, nobody would take them seriously. They must tone down any optimism, since the entire planet is in a financial crisis, so by default, it is simply impossible that any one company could be doing that well.
This also applies to reporters covering these analysts, such as this Shubarth fellow from San Jose Business News. Not one single sentence is completely correct, but just vaguely close to being correct:
“Apple sold more than 3 million iPads in the 80 days after they were introduced in April, instantly becoming one of its best-selling products.”
It is not one of its best-selling products; it is THE best selling product of all time. Not Apple, and not anyone else, has ever sold a product in such numbers so quickly.
It is really annoying when, in a rush to meet a deadline, everyone just goes into the CYA mode (cover-your-ass), rather than do a bit of googling and actually verify the numbers, so that they can say it correctly.
There are very, very few publications today that still have fact checkers on staff.