- Peter Oppenheimer: Highest March quarter revenue and net quarter income in Apple's history. Strong sales of Macs and iPods. - Strong revenue growth, higher than expected gross margins (29%) - Mac 62% of total revenue. Up 27%. - 1,070,000 Macintoshes shipped - 608,000 Desktops (up 55%) - iMac G5, eMac, MacMini's 467,000 - PowerMacs 141,000 - 462,000 Portables - iBooks 251,000 - PowerBooks 211,000 - Music Business - 38% of total Apple revenue. - Shipped 5.3 million iPods during the Quarter - New iPod Shuffle and new iPod Mini's - Feb Data. #1 in the Flash MP3 margin. 43% market share in Flash. - Now over 350 million songs sold on iTunes - Retail growth - Education Channel. - Growth in Cash - Next quarter will stop reporting CPU sales by product family, but instead in broad categories. Desktops and Portables to bring into line with detail in their music reporting as well as their competitors Q&A Session
- Q on supply/demand on iPods at this point across geographical regions. A: feel they reached a supply/demand balance by end of quarter - Q: Pent up demand for Macs into this Q2 waiting for Tiger? A: Difficult to predict. - Q: New Mac users in Retail? A: Low to mid-40% range. sales quite strong. - Q: iPod gross Margins A: Overall line margin was a little above 20% in the Quarter - Q: How many Mac Mini's sold? A: We're not going to do that for competitive reasons. Very pleased with customer response and sales. - Q: Last conference call, mentioned that putting a G5 in a PowerBook would be a significant technical challenge. A: Still think it's the "mother of all" thermal challenges. - Q: Question about future products on the magnitude of the iPod in the future? A: Can't answer that question. - Q: MacMini and Best Buy and targets. Also we're expecting a refresh coming for PowerMacs. Thoughts about PowerMac and sales? A: Did ship some units to Best Buy at the beginning of April. On the PowerMac, the PowerMac is largely driven by our Pro business. Continue to see a desktop migration to mobile, however, the PowerMac continues to be a very important part of our lineup for many of our customers. Obviously we'll continue to announce great things w/ respect to the PowerMac. - HP iPod sales made up less than 3% of iPod sales. - Q: iTunes profits? A: A little above break even - Hard Drive base MP3 marketshare 90% - Flash based MP3 marketshare 43% (0% to 43% in the month of availability) - 70% overall MP3 market share for Feb. Up from December Quarter
Apple's AirPods have been credited with saving a woman's life after a potentially fatal fall, People reports.
When a 60-year-old florist in New Jersey tripped and hit her head in her studio, she lost consciousness and awoke heavily bleeding. With nobody around to call for help, she realized she had her AirPods in, and used a "Hey Siri" command to call 911. An operator was able to stay on the ...
Sunday January 23, 2022 10:32 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple is working on a number of new products that are set to launch this fall, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that it will be "the widest array" of new devices that Apple has introduced in its history.
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Apple has always emphasized the depth of thought that goes into the design of its products. In the foreword to Designed by Apple in California, a photo book released by the company in 2016, Jony Ive explains how Apple strives "to define objects that appear effortless" and "so simple, coherent and inevitable that there could be no rational alternative."
But every once in a while even Apple...
As we roll into the latter half of January, we're starting to hear more about a potential spring Apple event, which is likely to take place in March or April. There are a number of potential announcements on deck, so an event would be a good opportunity for Apple to get them all out there.
We've also been going back and forth on some iPhone 14 rumors, and we've taken a look at a number of...
Monday January 24, 2022 9:20 am PST by Juli Clover
AT&T today announced the launch of upgraded AT&T Fiber plans, which support speeds of up to 5 Gigabits for some customers. There are two separate plans, one "2 GIG" plan and one "5 GIG" plan, available to new and existing AT&T Fiber subscribers.
According to AT&T, the new plans are available to nearly 5.2 million customers across 70 metro areas including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, San...
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In the United States, the baseline 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip is estimated to ship in three to four weeks, promising an arrival by at least...
Following months of bleak news about Peloton's "precarious state," including the revelation that it has halted production of its bikes and treadmills, Apple is being floated as a potential buyer of Peloton's troubled fitness business.
Yesterday, CNBC reported that Peloton will temporarily stop production of its connected fitness products due to a "significant reduction" in consumer demand, a ...
Thursday January 20, 2022 8:32 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Earlier this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman tweeted that Apple "will be holding a spring event" to announce a new iPhone SE and other hardware. In a recent edition of his newsletter, Gurman said the event is likely to occur in March or April.
Gurman did not elaborate on what "other hardware" will be announced at Apple's purported spring event, but rumors suggest at least four products are...
