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01/13/2006, 7:50pm, EST
Friday, January 13th
Briefly: Apple surpasses Dell marketcap
In Brief: After years or waiting and anticipation earlier this week, Apple today closed with marketcap of $72.13 billion, surpassing Dell's $71.97 billion and making it one of the most valuable PC vendors in the world (behind HP).... Apple closed today at $85.58, up almost $1.30 (1.54%)--another all time high-- following several analyst upgrades.... While Apple has chosen not to participate in the "Intel Inside" program, which gives the vendors marketing dollars co-branding on the box and in marketing materials (including TV ads), Apple will includ Intel's dual-core Duo processor logo on its new iMac box--in part to distinguish it from the existing PowerPC-based iMac.... A newly filed Apple patent suggest that Apple may be looking to integrate a FM transmitter into its iPod as patent application No. 20050286481 describes "a method, apparatus, and system" that wirelessly plays iPod audio files over an FM radio receiver, such as a car radio... The recently released iPod Software Update 1.1 is causing a headache for many iPod users and many problems, including problems with sound after 20 seconds of playback.... Seattle software company Delicious Monster continues to be successful with its software for cataloging books, CDs and other items on a Mac, despite losing two employees to Apple. [updated]
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(no offense intended to Intel, just really didn't like the marketing schtick)
Keep in mind that Apple has just ONE product that their entire current run-up is based on, the iPod. Their computer market, while 'growing', is still just getting back to where it was in the late 90's. And all the talk of the MacTel's switching people left and right is great, at the moment its all talk and anecdotal.
Will Dell be able to do the same? He hasn't shown any signs of it so far, but he still may, one day.
iTunes? Yeah, nothing like breaking out the iPod from iTunes to make it sound good. They have a huge market share, but the market for iTunes and such is small.
And Computers? Please. They barely can sell a million a year. And that's generally to Mac users. And like I said, it still barely reaching 1999 heights. (Oh, and if computers were such a great product, you'd think Apple would actually have, um, I don't know, marketed them over the past three years?)
As for dell, they've only go PC hardware? Well, I guess if you count their monitor business (which blows apple's monitor business away) as just PC Hardware. And their printers, yeah, I guess that's PC hardware too. (We'll ignore those multifunction printers that don't need a PC to work for most tasks and just call it PC hardware).
BTW, by the same analogy, Apple only does PC hardware and software. iTunes is software, for which a computer is needed to run. iPod is hardware, which, yes, you need a PC to run.