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Did you just catch that IP threat?!!
edit: Can you say Palm Pre?
edit 2: Holy Smokes…go Tim!!!!
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Did you just catch that IP threat?!!
edit: Can you say Palm Pre?
the subject just took them back under $90
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Yeah, that was a VERY thinly veiled threat.
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Kiwi, the basic white MacBook is now a very good deal (for Apple, heh): its technology is essentially identical to the basic aluminium MacBook now (2 GHz cpu, 2 GB memory, nVidia 9400M graphics) but $300 less. The graphics are key: far superior to Intel graphics, and from what I understand essential for future-proofing your Mac for the more graphics-intensive OS X iterations we can expect in the future. I should expect you’ll be able to find this white MacBook at $950ish sooner or later at Amazon, MacMall, etc.
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Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world… hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain
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Tim didn’t disclose what percentage of the 500mio downloads were free and which were paid.
That’s it! CC is over.
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” - Aesop
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Kiwi, the basic white MacBook is now a very good deal ...I should expect you’ll be able to find this white MacBook at $950ish sooner or later at Amazon, MacMall, etc.
Groovy! and once my son is about 5 and ready for his own laptop, it will go to him! In the meantime, I’ll be earning his college tuition with it. :wink:
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Tim reiterated the mandate to defend Apple IP in response to a fairly direct queetion about Palm, right?
Ah, Goldman remarks: ‘COULD APPLE BE SETTING THE STAGE FOR A LEGAL, IP SHOWDOWN WITH PALM?’ [caps his]
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Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world… hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain
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Did you just catch that IP threat?!!
edit: Can you say Palm Pre?
edit 2: Holy Smokes…go Tim!!!!
I was thinking more of Psystar
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Tightwad.
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I feel a peculiar mixture of joy and frustration at this moment. I’m thrilled that Apple blew out this quarter, despite the horrible holiday season. I also note Goldman’s observation that this call didn’t feature hectoring re: Jobs, succession, etc.
...it would appear Wall Street is focusing on Apple’s fundamentals, rather than the ongoing rumors and speculation. We have clear numbers from last quarter, and a clearer forecast than we’ve had in the past. Both go way beyond even the most optimistic expectations by Wall Street analysts.
Apple has demonstrated yet again what a fantastic company it is, unparalleled in any of the industries it deigns to compete in. I feel a revival of the old confidence, that Apple will sustain the economic storm, and should prosper when the economy recovers.
My frustration, of course: I didn’t believe sufficiently in Apple or my own forecast to buy massively at yesterday’s bottom, as I was sorely tempted to do. And given Apple’s numbers today, I don’t think I’ll be seeing sub-$80 shares for at least a month or two.
Edited: or to put it more bluntly, bring me the head of Eric Landstrom! :drool:
To be fair to Eric, he never told me outright not to buy yesterday, and any decisions I make are of course my own. And I’ve no doubt Eric generally calls these things better than I do. :wink:
[ Edited: 21 January 2009 08:22 PM by Winterpool ]Signature
Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world… hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain
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Winterpool, I thought I read you saying you had 50 shares of AAPL. How many do you mean when you say “buy massively”? Just curious.
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I had 150 shares coming into today. I was planning on buying at least 500 shares yesterday at 78ish (which is ‘massive’ to someone of my modest means :groucho: ). Even a $10 profit per share would have netted me quite a bit more than a month’s salary, heh (I don’t earn very much at my day job!). Though, realistically, I would have followed the strategy I outlined a few pages ago, which means I probably would have held only two or three hundred shares going into the earnings call.
I briefly considered even a thousand shares, but I don’t think I could have pulled the trigger on that kind of purchase.
Of course, once I saw the way things were going today, there was nothing stopping me from buying round $80 most of the day. (My coworker at the next desk was hollering at me all day to buy at $80, telling me my scenario was coming to pass.) But I’ve a massive psychological problem with squandered opportunities: now that I’ve seen ‘7’ it will take me at least a couple of weeks before I can bring myself to buy when there’s an ‘8’ in the first digit. I’ve seen this happen to me every time the share price rises a ‘tens’ digit. I doubt I’ll be able to bring myself to buy again in the near future even if the price rises for the next few days.
If it isn’t already obvious, I don’t have a personality at all suited to ‘trading’.
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Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world… hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain
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Anyone see or figure out the non-GAAP figures/percentages?
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Anyone see or figure out the non-GAAP figures/percentages?
The numbers are available on Apple investor relations.
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Preview of idiotic commentary to come?
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