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Breaking News: Apple posted record sales in history
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 first quarter ended December 27, 2008. The Company posted record revenue of $10.17 billion and record net quarterly profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 34.7 percent, equal to the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 46 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Things Apple should fix in the mac platform for an even bigger marketshare
Apple has been growing exponentially faster than the PC industry and all its bigger proponents, Dell, HP and others, but to achieve an even bigger marketshare and to cement its position on the living room Apple should do two things.
Missing links in Apple Mac Business
Apple is not the Apple we knew years ago, it’s been firmly growing in the consumer and professional markets, the adoption of Intel technology and Mac OS X’s unix origins have placed Apple in the front of the innovation race, plus the ipod+itunes enormous success and recently followed by the iPhone immediate triumph. But rocks remain in the road, Apple adoption in businesses has been slow, Apple is betting in the iPhone to conquer IT departments.
Apple is suffering Product Quality Distrophia
Apple has been growing and growing faster than any other computer company, the success of the iPhone, the Halo effect and the mass adoption of Macs everywhere have placed Apple in everybody face, but this growing popularity has come with a high price: Quality.
New iMac design from Avertec
Avertec (Trigem Computer) is launching an All-in-One Windows Vista based PC with excelent features, good quality video card, Intel dual Core, high capacity storage disk and the most important feature: it comes in iMac Black, yes, the design is a 95% taken from the iMac and painted in black.
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