Apple results top targets, Mac sales strong
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Apple Inc  blew by  analysts' estimates with a 67 percent rise in profit on Monday  as the popularity of its iPhone and iPod boosted Macintosh  computer sales, and its shares jumped 7 percent.
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Apple Inc said it sold more than two million  copies of the latest version of its operating system, Mac OS X  Leopard, since its release on Friday.
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Shares of Apple Computer Inc.AAPL.O  rose as much as 13 percent on Thursday, boosted by its report  that quarterly profit and revenue jumped on robust sales of its  iPod digital music players, and optimism for results in the  current quarter.
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Apple Computer Inc. shares rose as much as 6.5 percent after the company said fourth-quarter net income more than doubled on surging demand for iPods and forecast profit and sales this quarter that will beat analysts&#39; estimates.
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Apple posted a higher quarterly profit today, boosted by strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook computers.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Wednesday reported its quarterly profit more than doubled, on  strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook  computers and said revenue and earnings for the current quarter  would top Wall Street estimates.
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That controversial price cut on the iPhone paid off in big numbers for Apple in the quarter ending Sept. 29. The company announced as well that it set a new sales record for the Macintosh, wowing analysts.
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Fruity one nears a billion in fiscal Q4 Apple is celebrating a strong fourth quarter with revenues of $6.22bn in the three months ending 29 September 2007, and a profit of $904m, or just over $1 a share.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Apple's share of the laptop market is growing -- the company now sells more than one in every six laptops purchased in the United States, a research firm said today. "Apple's definitely up," said Stephen Baker, an analyst at Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group. "Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace." NPD, which collects its data primarily from retail sources and excludes most online and all direct sales, said Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops accounted for 17.6 percent of June's unit sales, an uptick of more than 3 percentage points from May's 14.3 percent. Baker attributed the jump in market share to refreshes that both laptop lines recently received. The lower-priced MacBook was updated in mid-May with faster processors and more memory, while 15-inch models of the high-end MacBook Pro were outfitted with new backlit LED screens in early June. The market share increase pushed Apple past Gateway into third place on NPD's list of laptop sales leaders, behind Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba. Research firm IDC also has Apple in the third spot; data it released last month put Apple's share of U.S. sales at 5.6 percent, far behind leaders HP (28.4 percent) and Dell (23.6 percent) but tied with Gateway. Back-to-school sales during this month and next, Baker said, should be strong for Apple, but his forecast is that the company's share will remain stable through the quarter. "I don't expect it to improve any from the June numbers," said Baker. The next move by Apple, said Baker, will likely not be in its computer business -- it refreshed the iMac family earlier this month -- but on the iPod side. "I'll stay firmly in the path of conventional wisdom and say that it's iPods next," Baker said. "They haven't been refreshed in almost a year." Although bloggers and Apple-centric Web sites have been touting rumors of iPod announcements coming as soon as next Tuesday, Baker didn't have any inside information on possible release dates or even details. However, he did have some predictions. "Apple will up the capacity of the Shuffle," he said. The diminutive player, which sells for $79, currently maxes out at 1GB. "And Apple has to decide where they want to go with the Nano. It's a music player now, so the question is what can they do if they want to keep it in that form factor?" Some reports have surfaced with photos showing a shorter, wider Nano, with a screen better suited to video. At least one such posting has pulled the photos at Apple's request, fueling speculation that the images were legitimate. "I think we'll also see a whole revamp of the iPod video line," added Baker, citing talk of an iPod with the same size and shape -- including screen size -- as the iPhone as one possibility.
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Peter Cohen reports for Macworld, &#147;Newly published data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index show that Apple leads other personal computer manufacturers, beating out Dell, HP and others.&#148;
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Apple Computer has announced that its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled because of continued strong sales of iPod music players, beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin despite a shortage of semiconductors used in its computers.
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Apple said it's sold more than 2 million copies of Leopard since it was released on October 26, outpacing Tiger's start.
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Apple Computer Inc. reported yesterday that profit in its fourth fiscal quarter jumped 140 percent from the comparable quarter last year.
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Despite a looming recession, strong Mac sales will help Apple meet or exceed revenues this quarter.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that more than quadrupled on skyrocketing sales of its iPod digital music players and strong demand for its PowerBook notebook PCs.
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As expected, it was another great quarter for Apple, with Mac shipments leading the way as the company sold more than a million iPhones.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday as a higher  price target for shares of Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O  prompted enthusiasm for technology stocks and a rally in crude  oil stalled.