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AAPL climbs to new intraday high of $27.49

updated 11:05 am EST, Fri March 5, 2004

AAPL up on iPod report

Shares of Apple hit a new said "the company's new iPod mini digital music player has been a runaway success. The paper said the mini iPod is virtually sold-out, with nearly 100,000 snapped up since its launch two weeks ago:

"'I've never seen a product line sell like this," says Jack Wahrman, senior merchandising manager at New York's J&R Music World. "The iPod is a phenomenon.' On its Web site, Apple tells shoppers to expect a one- to three-week wait. 'We're asking people to be patient with us,' says Greg Joswiak, Apple marketing vice president. It's not a component shortage that's causing the backlog. "We're making and shipping them as fast as we can," Joswiak says. He says teens are taking to the cool colors. And the mini is appealing to athletic fans, who like exercising with an ultralight device."

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Hurray!

::waves little flag with Dollar Sign::

Ka-ching!

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Money is good.

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03/05, 11:35am | report spam | close Reply |
Ripe

This is RIPE for another 52-53 weeks of profit

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03/05, 11:38am | report spam | close Reply |
Son of a *bleep*!

And I sold my stock yesterday when it hit 25, expecting it to take another dip! I could have actually made a (very small) profit on some of that sale if I'd held out till today! I gues that's why I'm not a day trader :p

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RIPE.

this stock is just RIPE to buy steve 10-15 more jets.

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25 down, 50 to go

What was the all time high before the bubble burst? $75? On the way up...no thanks to W.

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bleep boy

And I sold my stock yesterday when it hit 25, expecting it to take another dip! I could have actually made a (very small) profit on some of that sale if I'd held out till today! I gues that's why I'm not a day trader :p

Actually, that was like almost 10% profit you could have made if you had held on a day. You couldn't get that in a savings account if you dreamed about it sunny boy, ha ha!

By the way, the iPod is a fad, cheaper more able imitators will follow soon, I mean how many more are all the fanboys going to buy: I say sell your apple stock as soon as it starts to turn.

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Re: iPod is a fad

I'm sure you're just trolling, but come on......... the iPod has long since passed "fad" status. I would buy that argument if interest in iPods died out after the first or even 2nd generation, or if the iPod mini release ended up falling flat. But it isn't. The iPod isn't just another digital music player, and certainly it has faced competition from companies selling products with more features and for less money......... and the fact that the iPod STILL dominates is a testament to what an excellent product it is...... that the iPod is not suffering the fate of other high priced yet excellent products shows just how special it really is. And the message of the iPod has gotten through to people...... people know they can buy other mp3 players for less money, but a lot of them still want iPods. And some people want them for different reasons. Some people love the functionality of the iPod, they love the scrollwheel and the iTunes synching. Some just love the general design. Either way, the iPod has established itself. It's been compared to Sony's seminal walkman, and I think this is a good comparison. The Walkman certainly wasn't the only device of its kind, and people could certainly get other portable radio and cassette (and eventually CD, minidisc, etc.) players..... but the Walkman brand was so strong that it was a huge deal..... it still is to some degree, but not quite what it was once.

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It kind of sucks

how the iPod is gaining so much interest at apple. That's all people talk about any more. s**** the mac, the iPod is what's making apple profitable, so we focus all our attention on that :(

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tiny little troll...

"Actually, that was like almost 10% profit you could have made if you had held on a day. You couldn't get that in a savings account if you dreamed about it sunny boy, ha ha!"

Actually, if you knew anything about finances you'd know that the amount of money earned in a savings acount and sellings stocks are different... Depending on this persons saving account, they could have easily earned more than than if they held onto their stock for another day. Basic finance.

"By the way, the iPod is a fad"

I won't even dignify this with a response. Two theories: One, you're a tiny little troll, and your handbuilt PC serves as a substitute for never getting with a girl. Two, you're a Mac fan who wanted to incite some people on this board. Your sitting at your desk, wasting time on a Friday afternoon.

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An interesting situation

1) Apple makes the mac, and makes cool hardware
2) The cool hardware makes PC users drool.
3) Apple releases it's first major product for PC users - the cross-platform iPod.
4) The iPod suddenly becomes a major source of profit for apple. All the news talks about is how great the iPod is.
5) Apple focuses more and more attention on the iPod.

Does anybody else feel nervous about where this is heading? As anybody with a brain knows, it's much more profitable to develop for windows then it is for the mac. Looks like apple finally figured this out.

How much do you want to bet that as apple starts releasing more and more things for windows? Windows people are already clammoring for iLife to be ported. I don't think apple would do it, because they might get to the point where the advantages of owning a mac become nill.

But... what if apple is headed that way already? Mac market share still keeps going down. I think the whole iPod push is partly apple grasping at something that will be profitable for them that doesn't rely on the mac. That really makes me nervous.

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re: 25 down, 50 to go

"What was the all time high before the bubble burst? $75? On the way up...no thanks to W."

When are people going to realize that W had nothing to do with the current state of the economy. Even if President's did, the bubble burst in early 2000. Furthermore. If you knew anything about Dow theory, you'd know the Dow 20 was predicting the meltdown almost a year in advance of the decline. You should learn a little about the market before making unsubstantiated, irrational comments.

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return of bleep boy

Actually, I would have made about $1 a share in profit on 20% of what I sold... the rest would still have been underwater by a long shot (half of the stock was at a post-split-adjusted purchase price of $50 a share). It's just the principle of trying to make a profit on *some* of the stock... ah well, at least the sale left me with enough to buy a low-end g5 :) (Providing I can find a job and not put the money towards the mortgage - thanks, Shrub!)

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It kind of sucks to be U

By the way, the iPod is a fad, cheaper more able imitators will follow soon.

Yea, RealSoonNow. Its been what, two years now buddy boy(?) and the iPod and now the iPod Mini are both in the #1 spot. Little WinTrolls like yourself have been saying this ever since the original iPods were first introduced but as you can see despite the fact that there are dozens of cheaper players out there, its the combination of design and quality that has been kicking the living s*** out of the competitors best offerings.

Go back to the bottom of the septic tank where you belong....but thanks for stopping by and remember Apple ownz you. :)

ROTFL

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re: re: 25 down, 50 to go

"When are people going to realize that W had nothing to do with the current state of the economy. Even if President's did, the bubble burst in early 2000. Furthermore. If you knew anything about Dow theory, you'd know the Dow 20 was predicting the meltdown almost a year in advance of the decline. You should learn a little about the market before making unsubstantiated, irrational comments."

Oh, didn't you know that we are now supposed to blame everything and anything negative on George Bush... 9/11 = Bush's Fault, Bad Economy = Bush's Fault, Pollution = Bush's Fault, etc. etc. Anything good is a remnant of Clinton. :-P

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Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

Apple is back and better than ever baby!.

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RIPE

That stock price is just RIPE to spur a big sell-off of Apple stock...pushing the price down.

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Re: 25 down

Oh, didn't you know that we are now supposed to blame everything and anything negative on George Bush... 9/11 = Bush's Fault, Bad Economy = Bush's Fault, Pollution = Bush's Fault, etc. etc. Anything good is a remnant of Clinton. :-P

Wait, but everything good in the clinton administration was thanks to Reagan, the greatest President this country has ever seen (he must've been great, the Speaker of the House wants to name everything in the country after him). All the bad stuff was clinton's fault (which of course wouldn't have happened if he could have kept his d*** in his pants - and I mean his p****, not Hillary).

Thank goodness we had the republican congress during his tenure, to best reign in that liberal spending on frivilous programs, and actually cutting the budget deficit into a surplus. Just pray that Americans vote in another republican congress so we can get back to the tight spending policies we've been missing the last several years that's led to this wonderful $500 billion deficit.

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"But... what if apple is headed that way already? Mac market share still keeps going down. "

Please stop talking about marketshare. It is irrelevant. Apple's market is growing, even if the PC market is growing faster. Apple has millions of Mac customers. They are not going to abandon them.

Imagine if you had a convenience store in the suburbs. You make a good living there. Now, you know there are convenience stores downtown that collectively have a lot more customers. If one year you got 10% more business because your neighbourhood expanded, are you going to close your store and move it downtown because the hundreds of stores downtown served 20% more people? There's no guarantee you would succeed - why would they pick your store over others?

Apple's in the same boat. They are the only Mac dealer selling to a growing market. The share of the overall computer pie is irrelevant. To give up on it is just plain stupid.

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George Bush is just RIPE for an education in public speaking. I don't care what he does I can't listen to the man speak. He sounds like an absolute idiot.

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You are a moron

if you think Bush is fiscally conservative. In 3 years, he has increased government spending more than clinton did in 6. You can hide behind your tax breaks for the wealthy and barely legal corporate tax havens, but you can't deny that he has done the opposite of every conservative republicans desire. He even irritated Greenspan and he about as fically conservative as they get.

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if only

they could sell as many computers as they do ipods. But then, apple is a music company, not a computer company like apple corp is.

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Cut the RIPE c***...

Jeez. Grow up. RIPE was funny the FIRST 100,000 times but it is NOT funny, nor is it cute anymore. It's LAME.

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Apple and PC sales

The idea is terrifying! Apple joins the bandwagon, realizing that even PC people love their non-computer products and discover the huge profit potential! But it isn't realistic. Apple has no incentive to abandon the monopoly they have with Macs. However, increasing their profits by selling to PC users will be a good thing. For example, it may translate into more income for R&D.

Anyway, I think this line of though is ripe for more analysis.

BTW Go Nader!

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Is Apple making money...

...on the new iPod mini? The flash card drive inside the mini is being sold for almost $500 elsewhere (as a flash card for use in things like cameras). I heard some people are buying the iPod mini (for $250) and disassembling them to get at the flash card drive.

Granted, Apple probably got a huge volume discount from Hitachi, but considering the current price for the drive (not to mention the rest of the iPod components), I think this is at best a break-even proposition for Apple.

But the value of building market (and mind) share is probably well worth it, and in the long run, the drives will become much cheaper (while increasing capacity).

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There is no "Mac Monopoly." When are people going to learn what words acutally mean.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything. To say they do, is like saying Canon has a monopoly on Canon lenses. Thats is a ridiculous statement. Get it through your head. There is no Apple Monopoly.

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Bush.

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MS Stock

Anyone else notice that Apple's stock is currently trading for $0.50 more than Microsoft's?

I don't know if it has happened in the past, but I thought I'd never see the day.

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'nuf said. Take your W. bashing somewhere else.

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Actually you need to learn what a monopoly is. First, there are two kinds...good and bad. Microsoft is a bad monopoly. They purposefully tried to hurt other companies for their gain. Second, Apple has a monopoly on Macintosh computers, since they are the only ones who make them. They have "cornered" the market. But it's what people would call a good monopoly. Dell has a monopoly on Dell computers. GM has a monopoly on Pontiac cars

Monopoly definition: Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service

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Re: Politics

I think it's very hard to defend Bush's marriage amendment on any logical, rational, or analytic level. We can talk about liberals vs. conservatives all day, but the fact is, this amendment is just RIPE to inject discrimination into the constitution, and that's something that hasn't been done since segregation times. Do you really want to go back there?

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Just heard

Just heard on PBS news- Sony poised to buy Apple.

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Stock Price

I remember seeing Apple's stock price above M$'s before and thinking how cool that is. It would be cooler if it *meant* something (like if Apple had more shares of stock than M$) but of course there is not even a tiny bit of significance there.

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"Any man over 30 who can not think for himself and must use quotes instead, has no brain. Any man who can think for himself at any age without being told how to think is a wise man indeed."

-A wise apple user over 30

Go shove your nuf up your arse....this is a public board and people can be free to bash W if he/she so pleases. How bout you take your republican a** somewhere else!

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Full of misinformation

This is a boatload of s***! There's no way the iPod mini is selling like hotcakes. Its a flop! No one would buy it when they can get a ton more for just $50 extra. This has been said since MWSF. No reason its changed since then, so all this talk is just Jobsian propoganda. He's probably hired people to purchase it to shore up the sales numbers so he can dump his stock for a profit!

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>No one would buy it when they can get a ton more for just $50 extra.

You do get "a ton" more for $50. A ton more weight and volume.

Jobsian propoganda? That's funny. Apple would not risk getting sued for lying to investors. A sale is a sale; it's easy to count the number of iPods being sold.

You've obviously never seen an iPod mini in person and held one in your hand. Try it. You'll see why people would buy one instead of instead of big brother iPod for "just $50 extra." It would have sold well even if the price was the same as the big iPod. The difference since MWSF is that the only people who attended MWSF got to see it in person. Even the journalists who criticized it probably just saw the stats and pictures. Now, everyone can see one in person. Obviously, people are liking what they see.

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RIPE

I am RIPE to buy 10 to 15 more iPods.

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Two, you're a Mac fan

You gave me an idea to relieve people from all the 10-15 RIPE posts. Use "Macfan" in place of "Batman" to the original 60's show theme song.

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[i]the worst president in this country's history. period. h***, a GOOD b movie actor could have done a better job. [/i]

I thought that too. Then about a year ago, that crown was ripped away. Ladies and gentleman, we have a new winner.

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