Max: God Is A Whackjob
On the day that Apple annouced its first Intel based laptops, Apple's share price closes at $80.86.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 1/10/2006 07:22:00 PM
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
posted by Max Dobberstein at 1/10/2006 07:22:00 PM
6 Comments:
I don' get it. Is that good or bad or what?
(sigh)
No one gets me.
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I'm kinda miffed that the new machines will all be converted by the end of 2006 and will be the SAME price as what we just paid....for a machine 2-3X faster.
It's now at $85.
The market, I'm sure, feels that Apple will now be able to provide cheaper computers. Thus more sales and higher profits. The new iMacs are the same price but twice the speed. I'm betting the new mini Macs, when released, will be much lower in price and they will fly off the shelves.
Apple, for the first time since the 70s, is becoming a company about profits. The iPod is the best selling MP3 player on the market. Period. Now, Apple wants more than it's ususal 10% share of the desktop pc market. If it can hit the right price point, they may just do that. Using Intel chips is a step in that direction.
Is it the right thing to do? Maybe. I said a while back that if Apple released an operating system that could run on any Intel based machine, like Windows, it would give Windows a run for it's money. But, that has never been a very "Apple" way of looking at the world. This move is closing in on that concept.
In the next six to eight months, we'll see how sales do. If the market is right, there will be more desktops sporting an Apple logo.
I have heard tell that the new Macbooks (McBooks?) will allow one to dual boot Windows with one's Mac OS. That would be cool.
If only the name weren't so lame.
Yeah, MacBooks doth suck. PowerBook was god, but still sounds like you need to pull start it. The iBook was kinda gorey!
You were talking about stock prices. I remember having conversations with people about Apple stock several years ago. I said then that if I had some cash, I would have invested in Apple. Stupid me! I should have taken out a credit card and invested the whole thing! At the time, Apple was around $10. A $10k investment at the time would now be netting me $80k. At the time, I had a credit rating that would have gotten me a $10k credit card. Now, I couldn't get a secured $10 credit card.
I'm a moron!
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