Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo Last Christmas Quarter ONLY -Apple Retail Stores had in excess of 50,000,000 purchases in 4th quarter alone. -Last quarter Apple sold it's 250,000,000 iPod. -In 18 months, Apple has sold over 3 BILLION apps. 3,000,000,000. -There are now 284 Apple Retail Stores and growing. -Steve claims that Apple is now a mobile device company. They sell three product lines... the iPhone, the iPod, and the Mac (vast majority of Macs are notebook/laptops) -Since 1976, 34 years in business of innovation. -In 2010 ALONE Apple had $15.6 Billion in revenues. 15,600,000,000.00 -Today Apple is the largest mobile device company in the world, out selling Sony's mobile division (including camcorders, phones, etc...) Samsung, and even Nokia. -Hate Apple if you like, but the margin will only grow, because no one else innovates the way Apple does. The big secret is that the devices just work on a simple "anyone can use it" intuitive level. Congratz Steve and Co. The iPad looks awesome and who knows what's in development now for the future. I hope they invent something like iRobot that will do my housework. Thoughts? Anyone?
Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo Oh and by the by, the iPad runs the App Store applications unmodified, right out of the box. Odd. Why'd they do that?
Originally Posted By DAR <<Congratz Steve and Co. The iPad looks awesome and who knows what's in development now for the future. I hope they invent something like iRobot that will do my housework.>> I'm going to hold off on the iPad for now until they make a few improvements. But I love my Mac and my iPod is definitely one of my favorite gifts over the past few years. And that includes a new 1080p hi def tv I received this year and a trip to Florida and Mexico.
Originally Posted By DAR As for that iRobot thing I don't know about that, that might be like Skynet and we know what happened there.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I already have an iRobot that cleans my floors and carpets. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple repackaged and marketed this technology into something that cleans house while it plays music from the iTunes store.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I know this is off-topic but I just purchased a WALL-E MP3 compatible toy. It is so cool. I bought it on the clearance for a gift but don't want to give it now! SO the iRobot music playing would be cool. Do you like the iRobot? Back on topic If Steve could please make the world even more futuristic I would be happy! He can own the world if he could just resolve the wars. STeve for the leader of the new political party of futuristic robots controlling our minds!
Originally Posted By JeffG Apple is clearly extremely successful, although it is important to remember that Jobs was definitely doing a lot of spinning in his presentation. First of all, his claim that they are the "largest mobile device company" may be true, but it is pretty heavily dependent on the iPod, a product line that peaked a couple years ago and is now in decline as mobile phones increasingly double as music players. While the iPhone is obviously a huge hit, Apple's market share for cell phones is still way below Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericson, and even RIM (Blackberry). Apple is also facing an increasingly competitive marketplace where newer operating systems (particularly Android and Palm WebOS) have pretty seriously diminished Apple's big user-interface advantage. They do still have a big competitive advantage when it comes to the number of applications available for the iPhone (and now the iPad), although Android is growing so fast that it could be a close race by the end of this year. One big correction to the first post in this thread, though, is that they have not SOLD 3 billion apps. Instead, there have been 3 billion downloads. A very large percentage of those were free applications. The apps store is likely very lucrative (at least for Apple), but it is unclear how much money it really does bring in. Finally, Jobs did lump the Mac laptop sales into his overall "largest mobile company" speech, but Apple's overall worldwide market share for PCs still hovers around 5% (about 8% in the US). Even among individual manufacturers, they lag behind HP, Dell, and Acer. In the computer business, they profitable, but really a niche product, although one with an extremely loyal audience. Of course, they aren't infallible either. Apple TV has pretty much been a flop for them. The iPad generated decidedly mixed reactions yesterday (even among Apple's fans), so it is safe to say that the jury is still very much out on whether or not it is going to end up as a success or not as well.
Originally Posted By mele It's great you love your phone so much, DVC, but you're kind of coming on a little strong while accusing others of having "hate". I'm not sure why you care so much what other people think of iPhones or their own services. I love my new phone (got it for my birthday in November). Love it. Love to tell people how much I love it. No way am I going to argue with people about how my phone is better than theirs. Who cares?
Originally Posted By Manfried First it was Walmart, then it was Starbucks, next it was Subway, now its Apple and Steve Jobs.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I've always wanted to try that chocolate, pecan apple, but am too cheep to lay down almost $10 for one.
