July 19, 2006 2:04 PM PDT
Mac sales up 12 percent as Apple profits soar
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Revenue was $4.37 billion, up 24 percent from last year's quarterly revenue of $3.52 billion. Net income was $472 million, or 54 cents per share, an improvement of 48 percent compared with last year's results of $320 million in net income and 37 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had been expecting Apple to report $4.4 billion in revenue and earn 44 cents per share.
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Mac sales were up 12 percent compared with last year, during what was considered a poor quarter for the PC market. Apple said 75 percent of all Macs sold during the period used Intel's chips.
The outlook for the next period will probably disappoint some investors. The company predicted fourth-quarter revenue would be about $4.5 billion to $4.6 billion, less than the $4.9 billion analysts had been expecting. Apple executives will hold a conference call later Wednesday to discuss results.
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And we are very happy with our products, enough so to put a big smiling face on the money spent.
I never felt so Rosy with PC OS, Windows. The PC hardware it self there is nothing wrong with it, I run several Linuxes on it, Damn Windows, it's a waste of freaking time.
I don't care what MS does or is promissing, enough wasted time with that crap.
I own the old Xbox and the new Xbox 360, and I like them both. But MS OS is total crap! I know people who work at MS and with all the internal stuff and firewall and virus scanner, employee re-load and re-install it all the time, people curse at it.
Don't think that I am some ignorant dude, I know MS.
helped to drive Macintosh sales, especially portables. The
underperforming desktop sales can be attributed to those G5
PowerMacs! I'll take the position that there will be a dramatic
increase in Macintosh desktop sales after Apple announces the
Intel based PowerMac replacement.
Furthermore, we should see great unit sale numbers during the
current quarter as education purchases are still kicking in and
we should see a stron 2006 holiday shopping season for Macs.
it must happen with other companies too), the majority of the
comments are either bashing or evangelizing Apple?
Can't we talk about the story folks?!?!
In the end, the hate of either mac or pc is due to a malfunctioning machine.
When I fix either a mac or a pc, the users fall back in love with their machines again, so IMHO, if you want to be happy with your choice, keep your machine running well.
On the pc side, use a firewall, an antivirus program and scan for adware/malware daily. On the mac side, backup your data at least once a week.
http://www.techknowcafe.com/content/view/603/43/
piece of the puzzle.
Mac sales were up 12 percent compared with last year, during what was considered a poor quarter for the PC market!!!!
Most people who held buying mac bought macs after Apple released the machines with intel chips ("Apple said 75 percent of all Macs sold during the period used Intel's chips") and this has led to 12% growth!!!
12% growth from last year (when sales were down compared to 2004) is not same as 12% market share!!!
12% mac growth is tiny compared to the pc growth in 2006.
I agree with most that OSX is a better operating system than windows but the numbers are nothing to cheer about in absolute terms. Mac market share has not improved or probably marginally improved.
(MatLab, Office stuff, plannning software, etc.) on my mac. I have
yet to see a Windows machine run 12 heavy process apps
simultaneously without having problems.
Let me know how your efficiency of use on the machine goes.
By the way, the one thing that really is nice (its freeware) on the
mac is Quicksilver (3-4 keystrokes to get to any app or data file
on my mac). That is efficient.
12% growth over last year is not 12% gain in market share. Overall mac market share gain is probably less than 1%.
"According to Gartner, in the second quarter of 2006, Apple sold 766,000 Macs compared to 663,000 in the year-ago period. The company?s market share is now 4.6 percent for the second quarter of 2006 as compared to 4.3 for the second quarter of 2005."
"Again accordng to Gartner
worldwide computer shipments totaled 54.9 million units in the second quarter of 2006, an 11 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by the Gartner." - This includes macs.
What mac ships in a year, dell or hp ship the same number in a week or less.
Keeping these numbers aside - I believe mac osx is a decent operating system compared to windows xp sp2.
To me its not really fair to bash one over the other. Granted Mac's probably are more stable...they don't have the virus problems...and they tend to look "cooler" (though I wish they would go back to having the different colors like they did a few years ago...blue is my favorite color).
But...to be fair Microsoft doesn't build any computers. If they actually built a computer I'm 100% sure it would be more stable than they are now. Would they be 100% stable...no...but then again neither are Macs (we've had our Mac lab now for a little over a month...with no kids using them over the summer and we've had to reimage 2 of them already).
Look at all the video, sound, network, usb, tv tuner, and all that jazz cards out there that Windows has to support. If I want to upgrade my PC to a newer video card I just buy one and pop it in. Have I had problems in the past...yep. Not all of its Microsoft fault...it was more crappy vendors not fully testing their drivers. Yeah...Microsoft could really do more to lock system files from being messed with and hopefully Vista will be more stable.
Also, I don't think its fair when Microsoft gets hammered by including their software with Windows. I remember the uproar over Media Player and Internet Explorer being a part of the OS. Can you uninstall items like that on a Mac? Seems Windows would be more stable if they could do things their own way...but people and governments cry foul when Microsoft does this...but from what I've seen no one says a word about Apple.
Like I said...I've been a PC user my whole life. Just now getting to use Mac's...so far I can say Mac's are pretty cool...but for now I'll stick with my PC.
In a few years...I may have to switch...to Linux
system on this site. I can't say how many times that I get some
error message when trying to post, and lots of other people
apparently do as well. Sometimes the posts go through anyway
(but confusing the person trying to post, who then posts again).
Sometimes they don't go through at all.
Just now, I counted 53 posts, but there are supposed to be 64
comments according to the official count. Probably two of those
missing posts are mine. I got the error message, and the post
never showed up on the board, but the count increased anyway.
secure unix operating system, with Windows xp you get a
operating system built from windows nt 4.0 . You should the
weakness from the two systems. yes, Windows is on 90% of the
computers in the world, doesn't make it the best operating
system. A unix core or linux core has better security than
Microsoft Windows, because it is built that way from the ground
up. Windows has lots of programs and games, and it is on
almost every pc you buy. That said and done, I prefer os x
because of it's reliability and security more than windows. I own
a sony vaio, dell, and a gateway. My mac mini is over a year old,
my kids play on it and it has never crashed. You can't beat that,
and no technician can tell me any better. All my other
computers have crashed at least once, and I do have anti-virus
software, and anti-spyware. So play your game somewhere else.
I just don't believe you.
see so I see no reason why I should not have my two cents
worth.
My wife and I have both been/are IT professionals and have both
used UNIX, windows (from 3.1 to XP SP2) and os X. Both of us
are in agreement that windows is just simply flawed in
comparison.
I have been a substitute teacher in recent years in over fifty
schools, of which only two used Macs. Those were the only two
that did not have networking issues when running half my
classes. They were also relied on more technical support despite
having less PCs than the other schools had macs.
So as a personal computer user and as a professional, the mac
far outweighs the PC and the increase in sales of the Mac reflects
this. According to the story, fifty percent of people who bought
macs were new users who had never bought one before.
If for some reason, I decided to switch away from macs for some
reason in the future, it would not be back to windows. It would
be to Linux or UNIX. Windows have had a decade and have
consistently proved themselves to provide less than adequate
operating systems.
ain?t no teckie an I doan want ter be one. Butt, the reason my
awfice naow uses all macs iz kinda innerestin.
Yoo cee, wee ud uster have a buncha pc?s and thay mostly did
ok, xcept wen thay didn?t. I mean lak thay wud crash an cease
upp sorta offen and sech lak, jist wen yoo needed them the
mostest. Wee cud lib wid that mostly and eben aloosin the dayta
sumptimes. Butt, the neckworking wuz a nitemare. Wee had da
latest in rooters an switches and sech lak, but aboaut too ore
free thimes a weak things ud quit awerkin fer us?ns. I payd
more per weak ter hab tha teckies kum out?n an git thangs ter
werkin agin than I?se pay?n fer my 2nd gurlfren?s aparrtmint.
Sumboddy tole us?ns to go aout and git a mac and I done that -
I?s tha boss you cee. At first hit wuz kinda strange ta use butt
onct I got the hang ob hit I lakked hit purty much. In fackt, I
lakked hit so much I went aout and bougth a cupple moore. I
found aout that yoo could jist plug them succers tergether and
thay?d light right awf and see one annudder. Then I deesided to
git a few moore fer the awfice and got aourselbs a rooter to
hook em tergether.
Thangs werked slicker?n a-slyden a greesy strang out?n a cat?s
rare orafice. Wee nebber had tha 1st hardware problum, nebber
onct. At 1st wee did hab sum kumpatibility problums wid
applikatiuns inneracktin wid tha pc wurld butt nuttin wee cudn?t
hanndle. Thangs wuz awerkin so slick and so gud I got ridd of
all the pc?s wee had. I gave em away in fackt jist ter git em
aoughten the awfice! Wee hab not had the teckies out ter doo a
darrned thang cince abaout 1999 wen we switched ober. In
fackt, I myselbf duz all tha teckie stuff needed in aour awfice -
wee?se a-runnin abaout tin macheens. I no dats right bekawse
dats az hye az I kin caount.
Naow ob coarse wid tha dual prosesser macs yoo kin runn any
dammmned thang yoo wanter on doz.. No problums, no haow.
An, thay?s awlways mostly plug an play - jist plug yer stuff in
and tha kumputer cees hit and taykes awf. Hit don?t knead
know dribers nair nothin.
Naow I ain?t got know axt ta grind on kumputer makes and sech
lak, butt yoo cudn?t git me to go bakk too pc?s fer know
amaount ob monney deze days. Tha onliest thang I wurry
abaout is that dose mac macheens wil git so poplar that
ebberboddy?s gonna went em and dribe tha dang prizes up skye
hye.
Ennyways, cince wee switched to macs I bin able ter afford my
3rd gurlfren easy, know problum.
- Worldwide Market Share Is Lower
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by john55440
July 21, 2006 5:17 PM PDT
- According to IDC, Apple's Q2 2006 worldwide market share is somewhere below that of (who?) Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens.
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