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Apple: Is the sky falling?

Apple stock keeps getting hammered on a daily basis, either from concerns about how the company weathered the drop in consumer spending during the holiday season, or from worries over the missing Steve Jobs. In advance of Apple's first quarter FY 2009 report on Wed., there were plenty of new...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Stock, Apple Inc., Apple Stock, Sacconaghi, Munster, Investment, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-01-20

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BlackBerry, iPhone dominate list of 10 best-selling U.S. smartphones of Q2

HTCI was just curious if those HTC Touch Pro figures included the HTC Fuze, since it is the same phone except it's GSM, vs CDMA.RE: BlackBerry, iPhone dominate list of 10 best-selling U.S. smartphones ofThe 3GS has no right to be that high with only one U.S. carrier network and...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Sales strategy, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone, cell phone, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Apple's Cook looking at 'iPhone business model' in Jobs' absence

Apple acting CEO Tim Cook, filling in for Steve Jobs, is confident in the company's forecast for this quarter, and has hinted of iPhone price changes, new handsets and -- yes -- even Netbook computers, reports the Boston Globe. Cook has said that...

Tags: Absence, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-13

Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?

Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-10

You're the CEO: How would you spend Apple's $25 billion?

Apple revealed in its Q4 2008 earnings conference call that the company currently has US$25 billion in cash and no debt. Steve Jobs mentioned that its cash supply allows it to invest in R&D during an economic downturn and that the company created the Apple retail store during the last...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-23

iPhone unlocks demonstrate promise of Android

Bernstein Research says 27% of iPhones sold in the U.S. are being "unlocked" to work with other networks. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi emphasizes the potential losses by Apple in AT&T kickbacks arising from this. Our own Tom Krazit thinks all these iPhones are piling...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Handset, Apple Inc., Bernstein Research, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-30

The case of the missing iPhones

Steve Jobs at Macworld noted that Apple had sold 4 million iPhones through mid January and 3.7 million at the end of December. But AT&T has activated about 2 million of those. Theories abound about where those missing iPhones may be stashed. Pondering the case of the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Theory, Apple Inc., Downside, Bachman, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Apple, the new king of retail

Apple opened a retail store in Taiwan over the weekend. According to DigiTimes:The new Apple Computer store is located in an area of Taipei famous for a large number of consumer electronic stores and has three floors with a total floor space of about 397 square meters (4,270 square feet)...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., annual sale, sales, retail company

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Analyst suggests Dell-Sun alliance

Analyst suggests Dell-Sun allianceAMD is the big loser thenIf Sun and Dell hooked up, what would happen to the Sun/Opteron server strategy? Dell would lose BIG BUCKS if they went against their exclusive InHell deal. Sun could care less about Linux and x86 servers - so if this pairing did...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, alliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dell Computer Corp., server

Discussion threads 2005-03-10