Apple Plans to Grow to $10 Billion

mattmcal writes "Fred Anderson, CFO of Apple, this week outlined Apple's strategy for returning to its former self as a $10 billion company. He cited portability, digital lifestyle, and music as the three pimary drivers of this new strategy. Anderson announced last month that he plans to retire June 1 of this year."

Comments

Re:Should be possible

[Anonymous Coward]

"Innovation is critical. 'Because we have this modern Unix-based technology in Mac OS X we are able to innovate much faster than Redmond (Microsoft Corp.). Their last release was in 2001, but you'll see us continue to innovate in our OS.' "

Innovate == charge for security patches and lock out older versions of the OS?

Huh.

Way to spin the fact that you had a slow ass pretty but unusable system until recently, and charged $129 a year to stay current while abandoning most patching and applications for versions barely a year old. That sure beats those bastards up in Redmond who don't "innovate" fast enough. Maybe they should disable new machines from booting NT4, quit supporting it (it's 8 years old and they're still supporting it, BASTARDS!), and lock out 98 and 2000 too. Force everyone to upgrade and buy XP or Server 2003, then they will be INNOVATIVE (TM)(C).

Or is it because Apple continues to lose money on the computer end of the business and make it up with investments (ARM Holdings) and MP3 players?

There is no problem

[Anonymous Coward]

"There is no problem" said the man in the burning house.

Of course there is no problem.

The rather high chance of DESTROYING the iPod (both regular and mini) just by trying to open it to get to the battery is well documented.

A fragile, badly-designed case? That's no problem. When I need to open my transistor radio, I use a hammer, so I am used to damage already.

The ludicrously high price of the replacement battery is also also well-documented. Before there were complaints. Apple's semi-official position was "just throw the iPod away" when the battery died.

A $250 disposable music player? That's no problem at all. I have a habit of sinking my cars in the lake when they run out of gas.

Re:There is no problem

[BitGeek]

Apparently you didn't read the directions, but, you see, the battery in the iPod is rechargeable.

Just plug it into your PC with a firewire cable, or use the conveniently supplied plug-in power supply to recharge the battery.

I know, its such an amazing technology... I'm sure you're quite used to throwing away batteries once they are dead. But I assure you the iPod's battery is meant to be recharged, not replaced.

Re:There is no problem

[Anonymous Coward]

"(Please note the sarcasm.)"

Thanks, WunderMacTechnophile! I had completely missed the sarcasm. Thank goodness we dumb open source tools have you wonderful all-knowing proprietary Mac zealots to keep us on the straight and narrow, understanding the big, wide world around us!

Re:It is no joke

[Lars T.]

What are they supposed to do, shoot you and the other morons?

You know ...

[Sonic McTails]

When I read the Article Title, I though Apple was going to litterary grow 10 billion dollars with the money tree they stole from Microsoft.

Re:It is no joke

[Lars T.]

Well, hatefilled people were talking about a "problem" only they can see, and that it has to "solved". And every fucking country, most certainly including the US has a history of militarism. And if there is one place on earth were shooting somebody has been the top choice of "solving problems" by private citizens, it's the USA.