Briefly: MWSF attendance, Apple notebook sales, Panther update, iPhoto
Attendance at IDG's Macworld San Francisco scored the most visitors even in its history this year, while WR Hambrecht began its coverage on Apple with an optimistic look. Meanwhile, a market study showed Apple at 10 percent of notebooks in January, and the company itself launched updates for iPhoto 6 and Panther.
Record Macworld attendance
Macworld San Francisco host IDG on Tuesday announced that attendance at the 2007 show was far and away the best ever recorded, at 45,572 visitors over the five days of the event. This topped last year's show by 19 percent.
The firm attributed the success in part to the expansion of the show, which branched into the North Hall with new interactive exhibits. Macworld's instructional program was also the best in the show's 23-year history, IDG said.
The conference was also likely helped by the simultaneous introductions of the Apple TV and the iPhone.
WR Hambrecht pulls trigger on Apple stock
WR Hambrecht late last week became the latest financial research group to tip its hand on Apple Inc. stock, starting its coverage with a "buy" rating and an aggressive $110 price target.
The judgment was based largely on Apple's expansion outside of its familiar turf with the Apple TV and iPhone, which WR Hambrecht analyst Matthew Kather said would turn Apple into a "consumer electronics powerhouse." The Mac maker's growth in computer sales was also well above the industry average, Kather noted.
Particularly impressive for the expert was Apple's notebook sales tally, which soared 49.3 percent in 2006 versus the year before and gave the company's MacBooks a 7.1 percent foothold in the US market.
NPD January figures put Apple in fifth for retail notebooks
Research firm NPD published results on Tuesday that showed Apple as the fifth best in notebook sales at US retail stores, capturing 10.1 percent of the overall unit share. It was not present in the top five for desktops.
Hewlett-Packard led the sales charge for the first month of 2007, picking up 23.5 percent of notebooks and 43.2 percent of desktops.
As expected, Apple also continued to hold 72.7 percent of music player sales with its iPod line, beating second-place challenger SanDisk, which held 8.9 percent. Newcomer Microsoft was third with 3.2 percent of the market for its Zune player.
Apple releases Panther security, iPhoto updates
To match its 10.4.9 update for Tiger users, Apple on Tuesday followed suit with security patches for users still running Mac OS X Panther.
Security Update 2007-003 for OS X 10.3.9 Client (36MB) and 10.3.9 Server (49.5MB) are both recommended for all users and plug numerous vulnerabilities in the earlier OS, including those for ColorSync, CoreGraphics, the Flash plug-in, OpenSSH, and QuickDraw. Either update is virtually identical to each other save for the servermgrd fix in the Server edition.
Apple also issued a minor fix for iPhoto users. The 8MB 6.0.6 update touches on problems with EXIF data compatibility and Photocasting.
Record Macworld attendance
Macworld San Francisco host IDG on Tuesday announced that attendance at the 2007 show was far and away the best ever recorded, at 45,572 visitors over the five days of the event. This topped last year's show by 19 percent.
The firm attributed the success in part to the expansion of the show, which branched into the North Hall with new interactive exhibits. Macworld's instructional program was also the best in the show's 23-year history, IDG said.
The conference was also likely helped by the simultaneous introductions of the Apple TV and the iPhone.
WR Hambrecht pulls trigger on Apple stock
WR Hambrecht late last week became the latest financial research group to tip its hand on Apple Inc. stock, starting its coverage with a "buy" rating and an aggressive $110 price target.
The judgment was based largely on Apple's expansion outside of its familiar turf with the Apple TV and iPhone, which WR Hambrecht analyst Matthew Kather said would turn Apple into a "consumer electronics powerhouse." The Mac maker's growth in computer sales was also well above the industry average, Kather noted.
Particularly impressive for the expert was Apple's notebook sales tally, which soared 49.3 percent in 2006 versus the year before and gave the company's MacBooks a 7.1 percent foothold in the US market.
NPD January figures put Apple in fifth for retail notebooks
Research firm NPD published results on Tuesday that showed Apple as the fifth best in notebook sales at US retail stores, capturing 10.1 percent of the overall unit share. It was not present in the top five for desktops.
Hewlett-Packard led the sales charge for the first month of 2007, picking up 23.5 percent of notebooks and 43.2 percent of desktops.
As expected, Apple also continued to hold 72.7 percent of music player sales with its iPod line, beating second-place challenger SanDisk, which held 8.9 percent. Newcomer Microsoft was third with 3.2 percent of the market for its Zune player.
Apple releases Panther security, iPhoto updates
To match its 10.4.9 update for Tiger users, Apple on Tuesday followed suit with security patches for users still running Mac OS X Panther.
Security Update 2007-003 for OS X 10.3.9 Client (36MB) and 10.3.9 Server (49.5MB) are both recommended for all users and plug numerous vulnerabilities in the earlier OS, including those for ColorSync, CoreGraphics, the Flash plug-in, OpenSSH, and QuickDraw. Either update is virtually identical to each other save for the servermgrd fix in the Server edition.
Apple also issued a minor fix for iPhoto users. The 8MB 6.0.6 update touches on problems with EXIF data compatibility and Photocasting.
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Somewhat unrelated but interesting none the less; There's a TESCO program for primary schools (age 4-12) in my country called "computers for schools", whereby money spent in all TESCO stores earns tokens €10 = one token. All these tokens are given to schools and when each school has so many tokens they get a free computer.. well TESCO has just switched the brand of computers in that program from Dell's to Apple's. This is a big deal and means something. Apple aren't in too many schools here, but I suspect that will begin to change when the schools see how much less issues they have. I really think another big reason why this is happening is how competitive Apple's prices are becoming.
WR Hambrecht late last week became the latest financial research group to tip its hand on Apple Inc. stock, starting its coverage with a "buy" rating and an aggressive $110 price target.
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$110 "aggressive?" Many analysts have come up with estimates in the range of $125 in the past few days..... that's "aggressive" (altho, I am not saying "right;" I have sold long-dated call options at $120).
Panther?
Security updates are still needed. I don't know why anyone would use it over Tiger, but many do.
These percentage ratings mean absolutely nothing unless put in the proper relation to the higher-end machines. I'm certain Apple is kicking everyone's butt in notebooks from comparable price ranges. What percentage does Apple have of $1000+ notebooks or of Core 2 Duo notebooks sold?
You are exactly right!
They are adding the 50 plus percent (IMHO) of the notebook market that Apple does not compete in.
I would like to see all of Walmart, low end BestBuy, low end Dell and low end HP numbers removed and then see how the numbers look.
Apple could absolutely care less about the bargin basement, $10 profit per machine, market.
Attendance at IDG's Macworld San Francisco scored the most visitors even in its history this year, while WR Hambrecht began its coverage on Apple with an optimistic look.
Grammar check. Thanks.
What timezone does the author live in?
It's not Wednesday yet...
What timezone does the author live in?
It turned Wednesday in London just about 3.5 hours ago...
Panther?
Yup. Not a Typo, there were security updates for Panther 10.3 users.
Good to see. My parents and tons of people are still running 10.3.9.
In the meantime, just installed iPhoto 6.0.6 and TigerUpdate 10.4.9.
You know what this means.
LEOPARD IN mid APRIL w00000000t !!!!!!!!1!!!1
ZOMFG CONF1RMEMED !!!!
The "exquisite trinity" of new MacPros/Macs, Adobe|Macromedia|Apple Creative Production Tools, and Leopard 10.5.
April, May, June 2007. Phew.
Happiness overload.
Security updates are still needed. I don't know why anyone would use it over Tiger, but many do.
Panther still seems the better choice for G3 machines, in my opinion.
Partly (mostly?) because of the serious background processor and HD needs of Tiger's indexing (Spotlight) and related (Dashboard) technologies.
Since folks I work with seem to be more in the older processor group, they generally have Panther (v10.3.9). Just my two cents...
apple has updated everything or announced coming updates to everything except it's computers. then again, it's not a computer company anymore. it's just apple inc.
That's a sad thought
Panther still seems the better choice for G3 machines, in my opinion.
Partly (mostly?) because of the serious background processor and HD needs of Tiger's indexing (Spotlight) and related (Dashboard) technologies.
Since folks I work with seem to be more in the older processor group, they generally have Panther (v10.3.9). Just my two cents...
I think you have a fair comment there. However, I would venture that you can disable Spotlight and Dashboard in Tiger. Try this on the G3 machines, I think you may find things worthwhile.
It turned Wednesday in London just about 3.5 hours ago...
what are you doing up then???
what are you doing up then???
He seems to be one of those 'sane' people, like how I am when I am not wiped from my job or having to show up early for my job.
Panther still seems the better choice for G3 machines, in my opinion.
Partly (mostly?) because of the serious background processor and HD needs of Tiger's indexing (Spotlight) and related (Dashboard) technologies.
Since folks I work with seem to be more in the older processor group, they generally have Panther (v10.3.9). Just my two cents...
I would ditto that, having used it several times on some old 'back-room' friends computers.
It's not Wednesday yet...
What timezone does the author live in?
Haven't you learned by now that AppleInsider doesn't really care about getting the time right...let alone the date?
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Research firm NPD published results on Tuesday that showed Apple as the fifth best in notebook sales at US retail stores, capturing 10.1 percent of the overall unit share.
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Which is it? 10.1 or 7.1? Or is 7.1 for total share in 2006?
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