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Apple Posts 4th Quarter Financial Results

Posted by michael on from the not-broke-yet dept.

theanonymousbrit writes "From the AppleInsider article: 'Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2004 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2004. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $106 million, or $.26 per diluted share.' This profit (on a revenue of $2.35 billion) apparently constitutes Apple's highest fourth quarter in nine years. In terms of actual units shipped, over 830,000 Macs and 2 million iPods were sold over the quarter. The strength of the new iMac G5 is also credited. Pretty impressive figures."

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  1. anyone want to claim by wakejagr · · Score: 5, Funny

    that apple is dying now?

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    1. Re:anyone want to claim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I wont believe it till Netcraft confirms it anyway...

  2. What's the term I'm looking for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Debeleaguered? Unbeleaguerble?

    1. Re:What's the term I'm looking for? by selderrr · · Score: 2, Funny

      undying :-)

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    2. Re:What's the term I'm looking for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Mr. President, is that you?

  3. Just to stave off the Trolls, I'll say.... by Bug-Y2K · · Score: 5, Funny
    They are doomed to fail and die a miserable bankrupt death because they...

    10. Can't survive without Microsoft's Cash Infusion

    9. Have no hope of selling into "the Enterprise"

    8. Sell hardware for too much

    7. Are really a Software Company

    6. Are really a Hardware Company

    5. Can never equal the market share of Microsoft

    4. can never equal the market share of Dell or (heh) Gateway

    3. Their retail strategy will sink them (see reference in #4)

    2. They don't give it away like Linux

    and the Number one /. reason for Apple's imminent demise:

    1. One Button Mouse.

    (Did I miss any?)
    Thanks, I'll be here all week, try the veal.

    1. Re:Just to stave off the Trolls, I'll say.... by Chiron+Taltos · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes ... no one wants a computer you'd be tempted to lick ... yum!

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    2. Re:Just to stave off the Trolls, I'll say.... by desolation+angel · · Score: 2, Funny

      yeah
      the iPod doesn't support OGG.

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  4. Re:do the math by AvantLegion · · Score: 2, Funny
    >> I'm an Apple fan but this arguement is just plain stupid. The developer problem facing Apple is not the lack of big names like Adobe and Microsoft but the lack of small names you're probably never heard.

    Seriously! There's no Spybot or Ad-Aware on Mac OS X! WTF am I supposed to do when I run IE and get 0wnz0red by spyware?!?

  5. I call BS by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
    9. Have no hope of selling into "the Enterprise"

    Not true! Scotty has had an iBook for some time now, and apparently Captain Kirk is saving up for a G5 tower. Mr. Spock, of course, is sticking with his ancient Pentium II running NetBSD....

  6. Re:do the math by grunherz · · Score: 2, Funny

    "BMW could make just one car a year and yet it would still run on all the nation's roads and such."
    Yeah, but who's gonna fix it when it breaks?

    Man, analogies are fun.
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  7. Re:Well, I'm Switching by jcr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait till you find yourself dismantling and re-assembling your G5 iMac over and over, just because it's so easy to do ;-)

    I used to disassemble my NeXTStation once a month or so just to clean the dust off the fan and the power-supply heat sink. It fulfilled my instinctive need to use tools on something once in a while, instead of being a complete software weenie.

    -jcr

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