http://www.macnn.com/articles/01/12/04/post:.apple/
Post: Apple bucks the trend with retail
updated 08:30 am EST, Tue December 4, 2001
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The Washington Post notes Apple "contrarian style" with its foray into consumer electronics with the iPod and its retail strategy "Apple Computer Inc. in recent months has had an entirely different idea about how to weather the economic downturn that has prompted its competitors to retrench and hunker down."
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Sep 2001
Apple is healthier anyway
Gateway had gross margins of 8% last quarter while Apple had around 30%. Apple's revenues were lower and they posted a loss for the whole year, but all in all they are healthier than many companies making boxes.
When looking at the numbers its interesting to see that Sun and SGI are about the same as Apple, yet Apple is selling consumer products as opposed to high end workstations and servers.
Still I'd rather be working at or hold stock in Apple than anyone else right now. Gateway is on its way out, Compaq and HP can't seem to hook up and DELL keeps desperately copying Apple's product lines and movements in the market.
Who was it who just about sold Maine over 30k computers *with* wireless networking support (AirPort basestations and cards) and other services? It certainly wasn't DELL or Gateway!