Posts from — January 2008

Daniel Eran Dilger
Throughout 2007, the media consistently reported leading sales of Microsoft’s Xbox 360, dismal figures for Sony’s struggling PlayStation 3, and celebrated the long shot Nintendo Wii as a possible contender in game consoles. This portrayal of the video game market in 2007 was grossly misleading, and I have the figures to demonstrate why.

En Español: Consolas en el 2007; Wii PS3 y la muerte de 360

Traducción: Marcos Limeres Aguín
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Despite its reputation as a vendor of fashion-conscious products–and a resulting exposure to the risk of looking foolish to a specification centric market with fickle taste and an insatiable demand for perpetual improvement–the New Apple hasn’t made many poorly conceived concept product mistakes. In the past decade, the closest Apple has come to releasing a form over function flop was the 2000 Power Mac G4 Cube, an elegantly designed PC in a Kleenex-shaped lucite box.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
I try to avoid reading John Dvorak, because I am the moth to his flame just as he plays the fly to Apple’s ointment. Further, what I write in response to his sticky linkbait is nearly as predictable as what Dvorak writes about any subject, and I don’t like to be predictable. However, Dvorak finally got something right in writing about Apple, and that is indeed noteworthy.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Every Tuesday at noon, the entire city of San Francisco is alerted to civil defense sirens that dramatically blare for a moment, followed by an announcement that nothing really happened and there’s nothing to worry about. Only once a year, at the Macworld Expo, that warning is followed by a worldwide media announcement that Steve Jobs’ keynote disappointed and that everyone should be upset. Like the City’s weekly sirens, that predictable response by pundits makes for a bit of an attention arresting, jarring noise but is then quickly forgotten.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Who would have thought Computerworld’s Mike Elgan, the former editor of Windows Magazine and an incessantly badgering Apple complainer, would feel compelled to excitedly report on the future of Apple’s iPhone product line?

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Daniel Eran Dilger
According to speculation published by pundits, Apple’s iPhone sales have fallen into a mysterious time portal somewhere between Apple selling them and AT&T activating them. The conclusion reached by these wags is that Apple lied about actually selling them and really only pushed them into the channel to fake the appearance of demand, as Microsoft did this year with the Xbox 360. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Back in 2006, I wrote a series of articles looking at the iPod, the as yet unreleased Apple TV, and the unannounced iPhone, and described them all as a single platform that would grow alongside the Mac. I assumed that the three new products would make up a new platform based upon the iPod.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Akihabara News reported today that “NTT DoCoMo will launch in Japan next month the ConnectMail service which will allow you to receive and send @mac.com email as well as the usual @docomo.ne.jp.”

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Daniel Eran Dilger
In a conference call reporting earnings for Apple’s fiscal Q1, the quarter ending in December, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer announced he was “very pleased to report the best quarter ever” for the company, with revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, resulting in $1.76 per diluted share.

That’s an increase of over $2 billion from the same quarter last year, when Apple reported revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share.

The company reported a gross margin of 34.7 percent, up from 31.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 45 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Continues: AppleInsider | Best quarter ever: a closer look at Apple’s record Q108 earnings

Technorati Tags: Apple, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Software, the Media

Daniel Eran Dilger
According to Dan Frommer of Silicon Alley Insider, the Era of the iPod is over. That dramatic conclusion comes from the limited new iPod unit sales increase year over year in the December quarter; this year, Apple sold just five percent more iPods that it did last winter. However, reality isn’t quite so simple, and there’s no reason to buy into the professional panic being advanced by the usual suspects.

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