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Malloy · #**181** (**permalink**) 04-22-2008, 10:31 AM

I saw this yesterday
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com...what-to-watch/

Wed is earnings day

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Originally Posted by MikeinCC

See also, "Stuff White People Like."

Apple is one of those for-profit, take-advantage-of-cheap-labor multinationals that somehow, through their slick marketing, packaging, and above-average customer service, convinces people that they cannot have criticism leveled at them.

sw1863 · #**182** (**permalink**) 04-22-2008, 06:19 PM

I happened to be at the cherry hill mall and stumbled across the apple store - its not really large or special or anything...

can't they put an apple store where Sharper Image is leaving??

anyway - as I was checking something out I mentioned I was from Philly and it was too bad apple hadn't deigned to put a store in our fair city - he smiled and said - yeah this seems to be the philly store.

I guess I haven't been the only one to recently be there!

old old city · #**183** (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 05:03 PM

Thank you Apple !

Mac, iPhone sales lead Apple earnings growth
By Rex Crum, MarketWatch
Last update: 4:46 p.m. EDT April 23, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit rose 36% from a year ago as revenue climbed above $7 billion on strong sales of Macintosh PCs and iPhones.
Apple (AAPL:
162.89, +2.69, +1.7%) earned $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share, on $7.51 billion in revenue for the quarter, compared with the same period a year ago when Apple earned $770 million, or 87 cents a share, on sales of $5.26 billion.
The results topped Apple's forecast of a profit of 94 cents a share and $6.8 billion in revenue. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had estimated Apple would earn $1.05 a share on sales of $7 billion.
Apple said that it sold 2.29 million Macintosh computers, 1.7 million iPhones and 10.6 million iPods during the quarter ended March 31.
For its fiscal third-quarter, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said the company expects to earn $1 a share on revenue of $7.2 billion. Analysts had previously forecast Apple to earn $1.09 a share on $7.23 billion in sales.

Malloy · #**184** (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 05:14 PM

Very nice!

alesis · #**185** (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Malloy

Very nice!

And they bought a chip company today. The same company that once made their powerpc chips. A year from now should be interesting.

Jayfar · #**186** (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by alesis

And they bought a chip company today. The same company that once made their powerpc chips. A year from now should be interesting.

Not exactly, although they do license PowerPC designs from IBM (Motorola and IBM made the PowerPC chips formerly used in Apple Macintosh computers.)

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=207401495

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Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., P.A. Semi was established in 2003 by industry veterans to develop a high-performance, low-power processor family. P.A. Semi is headed by Dan Dobberpuhl, the acclaimed lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the StrongARM microprocessor, and the first multicore systems on chip with the SiByte 1250.

Last year, startup PA Semi shipped chip samples that demonstrate its claim of taking the PowerPC architecture's power consumption to new lows for a range of embedded markets.

More:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9079918