Comments on: Apple earnings soar, 1.4 million iPhones sold to date

As expected, it was another great quarter for Apple, with Mac shipments leading the way as the company sold more than a million iPhones.

[boychuk]

Going out of business

Just another sign that beleaguered Apple will be going out of
business any day now. Any day.

[ewelch]

Give the money back to shareholders

They're doomed, I tell ya!

Enderle, Dvorak and Thurrott are spinning in their graves.

Wait... :-D

[SpiritWater]

Next stop 3 million

They sold 400,000 more Macs then last quarter, so it's likely they could hit between 2.5 and 3 million in Mac sales this holiday quarter.

Two things that would boost their sales abroad. 1) A subnotebook to bring the Japanese and Asian sales up. 2) A small form factor tower with enough expandability to satisfy the savvy home computer user.


Break the Wedge!
www.breakthewedge.com

[Peter Bonte]

No small form factor tower

Everybody wants a lowcost tower to upgrade on the cheap to a
Macpro, not going to happen. A cheaper subnotebook on the other
hand ...

[GGGlen]

Can't wait!

LOL to the "Going out of business" bit, you nailed it!

:-)

I can't even BEGIN to count the times the i hAtOrz teh aPPleZ
crowd has spouted that tripe over the past 25 years, but when I
count the number of computer companies Apple has outlasted...
WOW!!!
Not even the mighty Compaq (bought by HP) or IBM exist in the
PC marketplace anymore.
Life is good in Apple-Land

[john55440]

Worldwide Share - Still Not In Top 5

Apple/Mac's worldwide market share is still in the Others category, behind at least five other companies.

In contrast, HP has a 19.6% worldwide share, with 33.0% growth. (Source: IDC)

[GGGlen]

ORLY?

And Ferrari commands even less market share globally than Apple.
Enjoy your Yugo.

[billmosby]

And... Loving it!

I've enjoyed using their "niche" products for many years now. I
don't give a hoot how many other people discover them, as long as
Apple keeps on trundling and producing great stuff.

[groink_hi]

Does that really matter?

Although Mac OS X represents single-digit percentages in market share, Apple Inc. right now has 100-percent of the Mac OS X market, making Apple one of the largest computer producers - more than Toshiba, SONY, Gateway...

[Penguinisto]

Actually #3, according to IDC

...just behind Dell and HP.

Now, what if we removed servers (which Dell and HP sell a LOT of, and, being x86-based, often count as "PeeCees") from the equation?

/P

[scweezil]

Market-Share?

Market-share? Apple is eating up the profitable high end. How's
Dell doing profit wise with it's market-share? There is no money on
the low end of computing...it makes your market share numbers
look great though. Look at the money Apple is making with it's
small percentage of the market. Profit is what counts.

[ServedUp]

Apple and Microsoft

are opposites which inhabit the same coin, Yin and Yang if you
will.

Point in case ? if Apple is doing well and obviously increasing
their marketshare, its logical to assume Microsoft is losing
marketshare (although modest by Microsoft's "gaming OS"
standards, aka Windows '95 ), losing any percentage of the
market can simply mean they aren't reading the market right
with their products. Lets explore these issues:

Is it possible that VISTA isn't all its cracked up to be, considering
most big businesse's refusal on using it? Ever notice how Vista
works exactly how Window's 95 worked back then, jittery and
seemingly incomplete.

Could it be that the vast consumer market sees the ZUNE as
gimmicky and just another iPod copycat and still opt. to buy the
original? Have you ever seen the HALO ZUNE (or for that matter
the brown one)? Or have you ever considered squirting a song to
a friend? It would seem that Microsoft's marketing of the ZUNE,
is actually making fun of its users, rather than glorify them.

Can it also be that by relying on the success of Halo and XBox 2
so much, that Microsoft has spread themselves out so thin they
don't even realize how to keep things simple anymore or for that
matter come up with great ideas? Honestly, have they ever come
up with any great ideas that wasn't theirs' to begin with?
Obviously their recent split with Bungie can only mean that
Bungie is tired of letting Microsoft ride on its coat tails and have
decided the deal that they made, was like giving their soul to the
devil.

Or could it be with all these Microsoft offerings it's just another
cover up for their weaknesses, in not being able to produce a
viable operating system. I can only see the retiring of Jim Allchin
as an attempt for Microsoft and Allchin himself to save face by
avoiding responsibility for Vista's shortcomings.

Considering all these factors, maybe it could simply mean that
Apple is just doing everything right.

[RompStar_420]

Amen, We rest our case...

Well said :- )

[tundraboy]

BIG FLAW in your post.

You referred to the 'success' of Xbox 2. Maybe in Bizarro World where losing buckets money makes a product succesful.

[MRC554]

WRONG !

Many Apple users runs Windows Vista in their computer thanx to BootCamp. This shows MacOS is incomplete OS - and not Windows (or why MacOS should run Microsoft OS?).

Parallels has more than 600,000 users (and many more using pirated versions) running Windows in VM. Not bad.

The conclusion is obvious: Mac is growing because of Windows :)

[technewsjunkie]

I predict Apple's holiday season will be enormous...

With the reduced price, sexiness and shear functionality (not even
including the coming 3rd party apps!) of the iPhone and the new
iPods, Apple should have a blowout holiday season.

I myself am looking for a new portable and an
iPhone/mediaplayer/internet Browser/e-mail MINI COMPUTER.

[jessiethe3rd]

Nice profit margin / profits....

Not.

[Xenu7-214951314497503184010868]

Microsoft's Rude Awakening

Quality and innovation will always rise to the top, and junk food buggy cheap imitations will eventually sink to the bottom.

[Seaspray0]

Not so

I dissagree. Beta was a higher quality video tape format that lost to VHS. It's not always the quality of the product that determines who wins or loses. Other environmental factors will always play their part... advertising, timing, fashion, even sheer luck. How else would you explain the success of the "pet rock"?

Disclaimer: The above comment about the pet rock are those of the writer and in no way reflect real or actual conditions of a dissabled iphone.

[john55440]

Nokia Sold 111.7 million phones last quarter

In spite of all the hype, iPhone sales are comparatively miniscule.

Even #5 ranked LG Electronics sold 21.9 million phones last quarter.

Numbers from IDC.

[jmccargar]

...and McDonalds sold a lot of Big Macs. But...

The biggest problem with my iPhone is that I can't pull it out of my
pocket in a public place without someone -- particularly younger
people -- asking "Is that an iPhone??? Can I see it???" Again,
Apple's doing something right. It's actually pretty astounding.

[jmccargar]

Two Qualitative Tests

First: Go to Amazon and check the list of top selling desktops,
then the laptops. As I write this, the top five selling desktop slots
are all Macs. Five of the top selling laptops are Macbooks or
Macbook Pros. Second: Go to an Apple store and just play around
with a 24 inch iMac for 15 minutes, or have a staff person guide
you through a quick tour of Leopard, iLife, or iWork. Then ask
yourself if you wouldn't really like to walk out the door with one, or
whether a lot of other people like you wouldn't want to as well.
They're doing something right.