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Apple Reports $19 Million Profit for Q3

Posted by pudge on from the i-want-my-cut dept.

pinqkandi writes "Apple released it's quarter three results today, which revealed a $19 million net profit ($0.05/diluted shared). Revenue reached $1.545 billion as 771,000 Macs were shipped. CEO Steve Jobs called it 'a great new product quarter', citing the new generation of iPods, iTunes Music Store, and the PowerMac G5."

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  1. G5 Laptops Highly Unlikely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess that last Anonymous Coward was trying to be funny by making everyone double check Apple.com for new laptops.

    However, it is unlikely we'll see G5 laptops anytime soon. The current IBM 970 chips run way, way too hot. Until a low-power version of the G5 is designed, expect G3's and G4's to continue to be the chips in laptops for some time.

  2. Re:my mac is simply too slow by daviddennis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Either you're a troll, or something's wrong with your system.

    I've passed gigabytes from my PowerBook G4/1ghz to my LaCie 200gb FireWire drive in less time than that, and generally I've found performance of internal drives is much better than external.

    I would bring your system to an Apple Store and ask the Genius Bar people to take a look at it.

    That being said, in my experience, the speed of a Mac isn't much different from PC speed one way or the other, and the aesthetics are a great deal more attractive. I find it more enjoyable to use a Mac, and that pretty much closes off debate for me.

    Hope that helps.

    D

  3. Re:Mac Units? by tenton · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can see the breakdown.

    The iPods are considered "Peripherals & Other HW"

    The 771,000 doesn't include iPods...it's only PowerMacs, Powerbooks, iBooks, and iMacs (the eMacs are part of the iMac numbers, the server units, ie XServer is part of the PowerMac units).

    The breakdown is like this (in the thousands, of course):
    iMac: 256
    iBook:133
    Power Mac G4: 156
    PowerBook: 166

  4. That was *last* quarter by overunderunderdone · · Score: 3, Informative

    This did in fact happen last quarter (the profits being all in interest on the $$ in the bank while the business otherwise would have shown a loss). THIS quarter however they did in fact run a profit off of their business of selling computers. Also to be fair they are doing some things this quarter that cost a fair amount of $$$ that are investments that will reap rewards in future quarters. Opening new stores and opening the iTunes music store - which is actually supposed to turn the corner as soon as this next quarter, and may be a real cash cow when it comes out for windows.

  5. Re:A long road still ahead by Juanvaldes · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this in 1993 apples share was 10%. While this chart gives no idea on actually installed base we do know the PC market is MANY times larger today then it was 10 years ago resulting with a small % that apple can serve.
    But you are very right in apple still has a LONG road ahead, hopefuly apple from one side, Linux from the other and the PC market can be broken into three dominant platforms.
    Hey, I can dream can't I? ;)