Subscribe to magazine

Macworld Forums: Apple posts $904 million profit - Macworld Forums

Jump to content

  • (4 Pages)
  • +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Apple posts $904 million profit

#29 User is offline   Gatesbasher Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 157
  • Joined: 11-August 07

Posted 22 October 2007 - 08:48 PM

Quote:

Apple without Steve Jobs is like Queen without Freddy Mercury.

Or Phase Linear without Bob Carver, or Carver Corporation without Bob Carver, or Bob Carver's Sunfire without Bob Carver...just a cautionary tale of what happens if you take your foot off the bean-counter's necks and allow them to plot palace revolution. Hopefully Steve Jobs has learned his lesson and won't let it happen again.
0

#30 User is online   Neil_Anderson Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 134
  • Joined: 23-June 07

Posted 22 October 2007 - 09:07 PM

Wow, looks like Apple will post over $1 billion profit next quarter.
0

#31 User is offline   tomtom Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 886
  • Joined: 06-January 06

Posted 22 October 2007 - 09:12 PM

I AM lucky but I very well might not have been
0

#32 User is offline   VinnyL Icon

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 14
  • Joined: 29-March 06

Posted 22 October 2007 - 09:28 PM

Or Metallica with out James Hetfield.
0

#33 User is offline   samrod Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 441
  • Joined: 31-August 04

Posted 22 October 2007 - 10:05 PM

Unfortunate that the Windows zealots have nothing to brag about. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
0

#34 User is offline   samrod Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 441
  • Joined: 31-August 04

Posted 22 October 2007 - 10:08 PM

I don't have to imagine baby! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif I got in on May 1997 with a split-adjusted price of $4.13.
I just envy those who had the money to invest 10x more than I did.
samrod
0

#35 User is offline   samrod Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 441
  • Joined: 31-August 04

Posted 22 October 2007 - 10:12 PM

No need to guess. Apple said it estimates about 250,000 of the iPhone sales were with the intent to unlock.
0

#36 User is offline   dreadnought27 Icon

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 45
  • Joined: 27-September 05

Posted 23 October 2007 - 08:19 AM

Quote:

Where did you see that (I didn't see it in the press release)? If that's true, then it basically validates my assumption that Apple didn't need carrier support. If 20% of customers are going to purchase a product and unlock it, despite unprecedented efforts to keep it locked, it says that people are buying the iPhone because of Apple, and not because of AT&T.


Hindsight is 20/20 - it's so easy to say now, with the huge numbers posted and the tremendous interest in the iPhone as a computing platform, that Apple should have gone solo on this project. But remember - this could have been a miserable flop, or just a moderate success.
0

#37 Guest__*

  • Group: Guests

Posted 23 October 2007 - 08:44 AM

Regarding
Quote:

Great news! What do Windows zealots have now? Anything?

From: https://www.microsof...nings/FY07/earn[u]relq4_07.mspx
Quote:

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year.

AND
Quote:

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Microsoft announced revenue of $51.12 billion, a 15% increase over the prior year.

Apple Inc. is doing great, however Microsoft Inc. is doing about twice the quarterly revenue.
0

#38 User is online   tallscot Icon

  • Veteran
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 1,833
  • Joined: 31-January 01

Posted 23 October 2007 - 09:00 AM

Quote:

Quote:

Alright Apple. Way to go.
If Apple's share price stays at $183 tomorrow, I will have made $130 dollars from my 12 Apple shares in under a week! All I can say now is keep it up!!!!!!
Imagine the lucky few who bought Apple shares 10 years ago when they were in the teens.

My dad had 13,000 shares of Apple at $15 in 2000 or 2001, bought on my advice.
He was forced to sell due to severe money troubles in 2003.
That would be 5 ----ing million dollars right now. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

He put down $195,000 on a single stock on the advice of his kid and he had money troubles? You don't say! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif (Sorry, I hope everything is fine now with your family).
0

#39 Guest__*

  • Group: Guests

Posted 23 October 2007 - 09:07 AM

Quote:

Those aluminum iMacs with the (gasp) glass screens? If anybody read this forum back in August, you'll remember how unmercifully these same iMacs were excoriated, and how the (very) few of us who were foolhardy enough to say we liked them had our aes flamed up one side and down the other! Of course, all that Apple-bashing seems tame now compared with the firestorm over lowering their prices or failing to support every hack that came along for the iPhone, but obviously all the hatred and venom that has been spewed here has brought the company to its knees!

Personally I will not buy any computer Apple, Sony, Dell, HP, Lenovo, or whatever brand with a glossy screen. This is my preference and I stick by it.
The lawsuits and other furor over the iPhone price drop were very entertaining.
Although I could have my Corp. buy an iPhone for me and write it and the voice/data plan off I have not bit because I have given up my early adopting ways and am waiting for some key features to be added to the iPhone such as GPS, Cut/Copy/Paste, 3G with good battery life, 3rd party apps - coming soon I know, and some of the other shortcomings to be addressed. Next year I imagine the iPhone will add these features and more and then I will have my Corp. get me one. As to the lock with AT&T I really do not care and am not too worried about travel outside the US since I have not gone on business travel to Europe since 1995.
0

#40 User is online   tallscot Icon

  • Veteran
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 1,833
  • Joined: 31-January 01

Posted 23 October 2007 - 09:21 AM

Quote:

Regarding
Quote:

Great news! What do Windows zealots have now? Anything?

From: https://www.microsof...nings/FY07/earnrelq4[u]07.mspx

Quote:

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year.



AND

Quote:

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Microsoft announced revenue of $51.12 billion, a 15% increase over the prior year.



Apple Inc. is doing great, however Microsoft Inc. is doing about twice the quarterly revenue.



You forgot to mention:

Online Services Business -$239,000,000
Entertainment and Devices Division -$1,199,000,000
Corporate-Level Activity -$1,439,000,000

Yeah, Microsoft still does well with their office suite and operating system monopolies, don't they? Other than that, they are sucking total balls. Microsoft is unable to compete outside of their monopoly they forged 12 years ago. Everything else is losing money.

13% increase revenue last quarter year-over-year for Microsoft. 29% increase for Apple.

This chart tells it all. The orange line at the bottom is Microsoft's stock. The blue one is Apple's.
0

#41 Guest__*

  • Group: Guests

Posted 23 October 2007 - 09:25 AM

Quote:

That would be 5 ----ing million dollars right now.

Yes and now would be the time to sell if you had the shares because the capital gains tax in the US is at 15% and most likely will go up to 25-30% in 2008 or 2009. You would save $500,000 to $750,000 in capital gains taxes by selling in this time frame before the taxes go up.
[Soapbox] The Government should be lowering the capital gains tax, however with a democrat President looming and a democratically controlled congress the tax will most likely be increased. Those tax and spend democrats will never learn, just think how much the economy would be bolstered if the capital gains tax were cut to 10% - Think of how much of the offshored Trillions would return to US soil. The bible has a history of people tithing at 10%, however if Hillary becomes president you may be able to keep only 10% and "tithe" the other 90% to the Government to pay for all the programs. All I can say is that more money will be moving off shore if the capital gains and other taxes are increased. [/Soapbox]
0

#42 User is offline   Peter Cohen Icon

  • Advanced Member
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 4,646
  • Joined: 05-February 03

Posted 23 October 2007 - 09:50 AM

OK, let's end the political diatribes right here before they get out of hand. There are lots of other sandboxes on the Web you can play in if you want to start lobbing grenades at each other's party affiliations.
0
  • (4 Pages)
  • +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

2 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 2 guests, 0 anonymous users