Revenue is not *that* important, it's profits!! I predict by 2010 we'll have so many mac fanbois and fangirrls that they'll voluntarily work for next to peanuts in China just to try out all the latest gear, AND to stop being endlessly tormented by new product rumors. This will send Apple's profit margins sky high!!
The new slaves: Diehard Fans of Apple,Inc. Will work for just a chance to touch a new Mac or to touch one of the black turtlenecks Steve has used in a keynote.
Great charts Sunil.
But revenue is important. A mostly hardware manufacturer can't increase its profits dramatically without also dramatically increasing its revenue.
Apple did $1 billion in profits this past quarter because it did over $7.1 billion in sales.
Well, it may be a bit of fun journalism. But is the idea ridiculous?
Back in 1997? You may have been laughed at by Dvorak. But not me. I've always been a believer in the innate superiority of Apple's approach, more so under Steve Jobs of course.
iPods bought them a huge slice of luck they have been able to leverage to a degree on Mac sales.
However:
More software.
Kickstarting their OS back '97. Transitions. Innovation outpacing MS's.
Mac only software from Apple stable. Compare now to '97. WOw. Huge growth there.
Retail Stores.
X-Serves.
New Mac designs/iMac phenomenon.
Paying attention to developers and giving developers Mac development software (as opposed to Metroworks? Codewarrior thing?)
Moving to Intel.
Working with other companies eg iPod partnership eco system. Macs in Best Buy and in actual Apple owned stores.
Edu' market is now receiving more attention.
Sexy laptops where Apple has been pushing the envelope for some time. And the Laptop market is poised to bury the Desktop market in short order.
A fantastic web site. The best amongst their peers.
Advertising (at least with the iPod...)
And they're getting great PC press from...er..uhm...PC PRESS!
Mind share is growing at an Exponential rate.
Oh, Stock price, understandably is up.
Profits just posted? Smashed previous records!
Apple 'Computer' turned their name to Apple 'Inc' (Pay attention to that fact...)
Looking at all that? They've come a long way.
er...didn't their Market cap eclipse Dell a while back? Who would have thought that possible? Who's next? M$ of course.
Now, where are they going?
Let's guess (and you can draw whatever graph lines you wish...
1. Leopard. Bed rock of the next two years. (Apple's going to put Vista to the Sword. More switchers, lots more when they see Leopard. And all the Mac users waiting for Leopard and iNtel centric Mac designs and Photoshop 3?)
2. New Apple Mac software from Apple. (An area they can still grow much more.)
3. New Intel Designed Macs (as opposed to nice but rehashed PPC designs...)
4. Apple TV (A sleeper hit. Wait until HD TV sales take off and people can use their TVs as their desktops via their Mac server...)
5. iPod Widescreen (maybe? Or will they only tie the widescreen iPod to the iPhone to ensure it's success?)
6. iPhone. (Enquiries for it in web search smashed all iPod searches for the year. This is going to catapult Apple into the Electronics field as an established player. It will likely provide key stone to kick all comers into touch.)
7. Eco System for iPhone.
8. Tied to Mac. Mac halo. Mac sales outstrip PC sales growth.
9. More Apple owned Stores.
10. Apple advertises iPhone. More brand/mindshare awareness.
11. Edu sales growth.
12. Apple addresses weakspots of X-Serve/OS server. New Kernal?
13. People like my IT guy at work and my friend (a long time caustic Mac sceptic...) want the iPhone. Do they realise they're getting a Mac if they do? (It runs Leopard. It's a Mac.)
14. Tablet or iMac docking tablet sometime in the next year. '08? ie the Mac redefined off the back off Leopard. We could see something quite new.
15. Intel. They've got more cpus in breadth and scale of product that mirrors Apple's 'Inc' direction into electronics. That could be phones, mp3 players, games machines, Apple TV...tablets...TVs...!!!
Apple have been giving M$ a beating in the OS arena, kicked IBM and Moto into touch for Intel, thumped the beatles in the court case....next?
Motorola. Right on their home turf of phones. They dumped on Apple big time. Left them out to dry. Both with Codewarriors and their cell phone class desktop chips.
Apple? iPhone kicks them right in the nads. Stock price projections for Moto' have already been affected. And they're not the the only ones. Apple are going for 1%. Typical Apple tactic. Under promise. Wait until they get 2 or 5%? Stock price soars.
M$. Leopard. But it may not only be that. But a Apple centric Office suite in the next two years that takes all dependence for M$ away from Mac users. And for the rest? There's Boot Camp. But Leopard will go up to the gates of Redmond and blow both doors off Vista. Wait until somebody, maybe Apple allows Windows Api to run apps direct in Leopard minus OS? Maybe if they don't, Parallels may go there one day.
Will Apple overtake M$? Based upon current performance? (Subject to change?) It's a matter of time. Apple's star is rising. M$'s sun is setting.
My friend and I recently convinced her mother to retire her 8 year old blue iMac. It was running fine with Panther 10.3, Office 2004, iLife 05. She did not really want new computer, but honestly that iMac had just gotten too slow. She's used it for so long she didn't understand that it was slow. She bought the 17" iMac. Now she sees how slow that older computer was, but it still worked.
...
Good story. Same happend in my neighbourhood. The bottom line is
people love their Macs and the MegaHzMyth is nearly dead.
Good story. Same happend in my neighbourhood. The bottom line is
people love their Macs and the MegaHzMyth is nearly dead.
It is dead, and buried too.
2 GHz Core 2 Duos beating the snot out of 3.6 GHz Dual Core Pentium Ms sealed that, unless a person is particularly dense. There may be a few, but some folks still believe the Earth is flat, too. MHz Myth, rest in peace. 8)
I think your numbers are off. My rough guess is that in the iPod world, Apple's market share is about 100%...
Can't be. Griffin sells ipod accessories and as such does have market share (even if tiny). :-). I think the original author meant to say mp3 players and you are cheekily correcting him and i in turn is cheekily correcting you. Crap, my head is spinning from all this cheekiness, i need to lay down.
In order for Apple to catch up with Microsoft in revenue, Apple has to sell a lot more OS or Apple version of Office. In addition, MAC needs a lot more third party softwares and freeware to convert PC users to crack the corporate market.
With the iPhone platform comes out, I am hoping Apple can expand the iPOD platform base on the iPhone except without the phone feature (it is too hard to package everything into one). I am hoping Apple can introduce an iGPS for traveling and use in my car. As well, a 80GB iPod based on the iPhone platform for video viewing would be a great upgrade as well.
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Revenue is not *that* important, it's profits!! I predict by 2010 we'll have so many mac fanbois and fangirrls that they'll voluntarily work for next to peanuts in China just to try out all the latest gear, AND to stop being endlessly tormented by new product rumors. This will send Apple's profit margins sky high!!
The new slaves: Diehard Fans of Apple,Inc. Will work for just a chance to touch a new Mac or to touch one of the black turtlenecks Steve has used in a keynote.
Great charts Sunil.
But revenue is important. A mostly hardware manufacturer can't increase its profits dramatically without also dramatically increasing its revenue.
Apple did $1 billion in profits this past quarter because it did over $7.1 billion in sales.
Back in 1997? You may have been laughed at by Dvorak. But not me. I've always been a believer in the innate superiority of Apple's approach, more so under Steve Jobs of course.
iPods bought them a huge slice of luck they have been able to leverage to a degree on Mac sales.
However:
More software.
Kickstarting their OS back '97. Transitions. Innovation outpacing MS's.
Mac only software from Apple stable. Compare now to '97. WOw. Huge growth there.
Retail Stores.
X-Serves.
New Mac designs/iMac phenomenon.
Paying attention to developers and giving developers Mac development software (as opposed to Metroworks? Codewarrior thing?)
Moving to Intel.
Working with other companies eg iPod partnership eco system. Macs in Best Buy and in actual Apple owned stores.
Edu' market is now receiving more attention.
Sexy laptops where Apple has been pushing the envelope for some time. And the Laptop market is poised to bury the Desktop market in short order.
A fantastic web site. The best amongst their peers.
Advertising (at least with the iPod...)
And they're getting great PC press from...er..uhm...PC PRESS!
Mind share is growing at an Exponential rate.
Oh, Stock price, understandably is up.
Profits just posted? Smashed previous records!
Apple 'Computer' turned their name to Apple 'Inc' (Pay attention to that fact...)
Looking at all that? They've come a long way.
er...didn't their Market cap eclipse Dell a while back? Who would have thought that possible? Who's next? M$ of course.
Now, where are they going?
Let's guess (and you can draw whatever graph lines you wish...
1. Leopard. Bed rock of the next two years. (Apple's going to put Vista to the Sword. More switchers, lots more when they see Leopard. And all the Mac users waiting for Leopard and iNtel centric Mac designs and Photoshop 3?)
2. New Apple Mac software from Apple. (An area they can still grow much more.)
3. New Intel Designed Macs (as opposed to nice but rehashed PPC designs...)
4. Apple TV (A sleeper hit. Wait until HD TV sales take off and people can use their TVs as their desktops via their Mac server...)
5. iPod Widescreen (maybe? Or will they only tie the widescreen iPod to the iPhone to ensure it's success?)
6. iPhone. (Enquiries for it in web search smashed all iPod searches for the year. This is going to catapult Apple into the Electronics field as an established player. It will likely provide key stone to kick all comers into touch.)
7. Eco System for iPhone.
8. Tied to Mac. Mac halo. Mac sales outstrip PC sales growth.
9. More Apple owned Stores.
10. Apple advertises iPhone. More brand/mindshare awareness.
11. Edu sales growth.
12. Apple addresses weakspots of X-Serve/OS server. New Kernal?
13. People like my IT guy at work and my friend (a long time caustic Mac sceptic...) want the iPhone. Do they realise they're getting a Mac if they do? (It runs Leopard. It's a Mac.)
14. Tablet or iMac docking tablet sometime in the next year. '08? ie the Mac redefined off the back off Leopard. We could see something quite new.
15. Intel. They've got more cpus in breadth and scale of product that mirrors Apple's 'Inc' direction into electronics. That could be phones, mp3 players, games machines, Apple TV...tablets...TVs...!!!
Apple have been giving M$ a beating in the OS arena, kicked IBM and Moto into touch for Intel, thumped the beatles in the court case....next?
Motorola. Right on their home turf of phones. They dumped on Apple big time. Left them out to dry. Both with Codewarriors and their cell phone class desktop chips.
Apple? iPhone kicks them right in the nads. Stock price projections for Moto' have already been affected. And they're not the the only ones. Apple are going for 1%. Typical Apple tactic. Under promise. Wait until they get 2 or 5%? Stock price soars.
M$. Leopard. But it may not only be that. But a Apple centric Office suite in the next two years that takes all dependence for M$ away from Mac users. And for the rest? There's Boot Camp.
Will Apple overtake M$? Based upon current performance? (Subject to change?) It's a matter of time. Apple's star is rising. M$'s sun is setting.
The tanks are already on the lawn...
Lemon Bon Bon
Actually, I own Apple stock. Am very happy about it too, obvously. Cigar?
.
Everybody who ever had the need to buy cigars, knows that you can
spend a furtune on it.) Well, this is life and life without cigars is questionable at least.
Btw, don't consume cigars in the kitchen or in the livingroom if your wife or your
children are around the corner.
8)
...
My friend and I recently convinced her mother to retire her 8 year old blue iMac. It was running fine with Panther 10.3, Office 2004, iLife 05. She did not really want new computer, but honestly that iMac had just gotten too slow. She's used it for so long she didn't understand that it was slow. She bought the 17" iMac. Now she sees how slow that older computer was, but it still worked.
...
Good story. Same happend in my neighbourhood. The bottom line is
people love their Macs and the MegaHzMyth is nearly dead.
Good story. Same happend in my neighbourhood. The bottom line is
people love their Macs and the MegaHzMyth is nearly dead.
It is dead, and buried too.
2 GHz Core 2 Duos beating the snot out of 3.6 GHz Dual Core Pentium Ms sealed that, unless a person is particularly dense. There may be a few, but some folks still believe the Earth is flat, too. MHz Myth, rest in peace. 8)
.
I think your numbers are off. My rough guess is that in the iPod world, Apple's market share is about 100%...
Can't be. Griffin sells ipod accessories and as such does have market share (even if tiny). :-). I think the original author meant to say mp3 players and you are cheekily correcting him and i in turn is cheekily correcting you. Crap, my head is spinning from all this cheekiness, i need to lay down.
With the iPhone platform comes out, I am hoping Apple can expand the iPOD platform base on the iPhone except without the phone feature (it is too hard to package everything into one). I am hoping Apple can introduce an iGPS for traveling and use in my car. As well, a 80GB iPod based on the iPhone platform for video viewing would be a great upgrade as well.