Apple is among ten tech companies featured on a front page CBS Marketwatch Poll that asks readers which company's stock will fare the best in 2001. Apple was in sixth place with six percent of the vote at the time of this writing.
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Before we know it, AAPL will be in the lead because many Mac zealots are going to go and vote for AAPL. I wish all sites, except for the ones hosting the poll would refrain from posting pointers to these polls. All it does is make already unreliable results even worse.
--Ryan
Epecially when it comes to topics like this. If ZDnet, which is probably read 10x more by PC users, asks a question related to Macs, what do you think the outcome is going to be?
The only accurate polls are those taken by a random sample. Everything else is just for amusement.
Personally, I think People PC will be the best tech company of the year. Ignore the fact that it's down 80% from its IPO (and that it's never traded above its IPO price) -- that little black dude is just too cool!
Apple: proudly going out of business for over 20 years!
I agree with Tom Barta; there's pent up demand for OS X and (hopefully soon to be announced) faster CPUs. I've put my money where my mouth is two ways: bought an iMac for my mother (Christmas present) and bought a block of AAPL (investment bargain).
As for polls? ZDnet and others just do polls (and those anti-Apple articles, for that matter) to get banner ad impressions. Don't fall for it.
Apple's downside is based on an emotional market. You might say all market moves are based on emotions too. But for a company that has so much cash on hand, the stock price is unrealistically low when compared to similar companies. It will go back up once the institutional investors start buying the huge blocks they sold off when it went down. Apple led the way with profit warning and the industry followed. No matter whether it is good or bad, Apple does lead the way, and when they start moving up (today I think they went up about 10%) it's time to start purchasing in the NASDAQ and go along for the ride.
While there is certainly some demand for systems with OS X pre-installed, the big demand for Macs will come when Apple finally gets around the performance issues with the G4. Limited supplies of 650MHz G4's aren't going to generate huge profits, especially when the Wintel markets are beating each other up with much lower prices and gigahertz systems becoming the low-end by this summer, about the same time that MP gigahertz Wintel systems begin to appear. While the new systems may return Apple to limited profitability (it depends on how they are priced and that old supply-demand thing), it won't be really profitable until they can shop lots of 2 and 4-cpu 700+ GHz G4 systems, which isn't going to happen until at least summer, and maybe not until year-end. Motorola's track record does not provide much in the way of hope.
As of 4:11 PM pacific time Apple is in 2nd place with 18% of the vote.
Yeah!!!! Apple's in first place with 22% as of 9:40 PST.
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Apple's december sales were way down in spite of price cuts-- twice as "down" as other PC maker's sales were. Gee-- it couldn't be that people are waiting for OS X-- due very soon-- to avoid the potential hastle of installing it? I expect a few bad quarters from AAPL, but I would be surprised if they didn't end up at the end of '01 at $100 or better. The iMac gave Apple WAY s*** machines; OS X will give them credibility in the lucrative server arena. Quicktime will surely become the TV of the 21st century. I see nothing but "upside" for the company.--Tom Barta