Apple Posts 4th Quarter Financial Results

Posted by michael on Thursday October 14, 2004 @01:24AM 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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do the math by jeif1k · 2004-10-14 02:58 · Score: 0, Troll

Total shipments were 48.4 million for 2004q4. So, Apple's share of that is 1.7%. HP, in contrast, shipped 7.5 million PCs in the same time frame, a 15.5% share.

Where do you expect Apple to be 5-10 years from now with their platform in terms of market share given those numbers? Where do you expect them to be technologically? What is the motivation of software developers to develop for that platform? Please explain.