Comments on: Apple: Steve Jobs Is Still Fine, and We Still Hate Netbooks

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Fri, 01 May 2009 02:46:07 +0000

[...] become the next phase for Apple, Netbooks, is clearly being turned down by the company. Peter Kafka recently posted about Apple on Media Memo, apart of All Things Digital. He reports that “COO (and temporary [...]

By: Earnings Calls: Yahoo Sagging, Netflix Soaring, Apple Stable | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:58:33 +0000

[...] tidings, the newspaper industry is unlikely to get a bailout from Washington. No big takeaways from Apple’s (AAPL) earnings call–Steve’s fine and the company is still not at all interested in developing a netbook. [...]

By: Did Apple Just Fire 1,600 Retail Workers? Nope. [MediaMemo] | tech.shaundunne.com

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:13:09 +0000

[...] year earlier, and that margins for the retail unit had shrunk accordingly. From the company’s earnings call, via Seeking Alpha: “We believe that the year-over-year decline in average store sales and [...]

By: Did Apple Just Fire 1,600 Retail Workers? Nope [MediaMemo] | FateMaster Tech News

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:54 +0000

[...] year earlier, and that margins for the retail unit had shrunk accordingly. From the company’s earnings call, via Seeking Alpha: We believe that the year-over-year decline in average store sales and segment [...]

By: Did Apple Just Fire 1,600 Retail Workers? Nope | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:46 +0000

By: June Gordon

June Gordon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:50:00 +0000

I really enjoy my MacBook Air. I don’t see how anyone could confuse a full service computer like it with a netbook. Those have much slower processors, smaller hard drives, cramped keyboards, and can only run two or three applications at a time.

I do find my second generation MacBook better than the original, which I used for a year. The newer version, which I’ve had for a little over a month, has a stronger, faster processor, and, most importantly, a separate graphics chip. I no longer get stuttering or freezes when playing video. The bigger hard drive, 120 GBs, is nice, too.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:00:30 +0000

Specific to netbook, this is simple addition by subtraction.

Translation: we are not going to come out with a MAC netbook. We are going to come up with an iPhone OS based variant, as it already serves that “job”; namely, browsing on steroids. Bigger form factor of the iPod touch.

Seems obvious, but with Apple you can never be sure.

By: Eric Welch

Eric Welch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:58:51 +0000

By “hottest part of the PC business” I suspect you mean in terms of volume. Because it certainly isn’t going to contribute much to the bottom lines of the companies making them. What do they make per computer? Twenty, fifty bucks?

If they think they can make it up in volume, I have my doubts. Apple’s vast profit margins in comparison more than make up for the miniscule profits they would pull in after the vast commitment of resources it would take to produce a Mac netbook.

If they made one that made enough money to justify it, people would accusing them of the old meme – the Apple tax – that analysts use when they don’t know what else to say.

Reminds me of the old joke about the company that loses money on each unit sold. “But we make it up in volume!”

Indeed.

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:14:00 +0000

@Mark. Yep, they had a great quarter. Pretty amazing, really.
@Cathy I was debating getting the Air last fall but ended up getting the new 13″ Macbook instead. Quite happy with it, with the exception of the no-button mouse pad, which I *still* haven’t completely adapted to.

By: Market Talk » Blog Archive » Apple’s No Talk, All Game

Market Talk » Blog Archive » Apple’s No Talk, All Game — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:26 +0000

[...] details as possible is “just the way Apple execs like their earnings call,” Peter Kafka writesat [...]

By: Cathy Brooks

Cathy Brooks — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:08:33 +0000

I find it amusing that Apple has such an issue with Netbooks when frankly the Macbook AIR is nothing more than a weekend convertible car type of computer anyway.

I’m not necessarily enamored of the netbooks either (mostly because they force me to use Windows), but having just played around with some netbooks (ones sporting WiMax tech) while in Portland have to say that in spite of the less than simple user experience, once I was up and running it was far more functional to use than my AIR …

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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:52:46 +0000

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By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:30:12 +0000

Peter, while I agree with your thesis that the earnings call was “news free,” I have a slight different take; namely, that no news is GREAT news, something that I blogged about in:

ANALYSIS – Apple March Quarter Earnings Call: When No News is GREAT News. (http://bit.ly/2DmNZ)

Check it out if interested.

Mark

By: Trade Jim Dow 30 » Apple: Steve Jobs is Still Fine, and We Still Hate Netbooks (at AllThingsD)

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:10:23 +0000

[...] Next to no news from the Apple earnings call this afternoon, which is just the way Apple execs like their earnings calls. Once again, the company provided no information about CEO Steve Jobs’ health, except to note that he is still scheduled to come back to work in June. Go to Source [...]

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