Apple - Chancen und Risiken
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das wâre aber typisch für das marketing/management von apple. Apple versucht bei allem zu 120% "in control" zu bleiebn und so gut wie Nichts aus der Hand zu geben um dann die follow on Geschäfte (halo) zu machen.
Das ist m.E. auch die Idee beim apple TV, es geht gar nicht um die hi speed set top box...sondern was man hinterher damit macht..sprich ansieht, sprich kauft...deshalb auch der integirerte "H.264 Standard encrypted"/ protected H.264 (from iTunes Store)(= itunes store gekauft...).
Währendessen wartet man auf idie neuen i"macs:
Appleinsider claims that the next version of Apple's iMac will showcase "striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten."
The new designs are said to be sleeker and slimmer than the current iMac designs, however, the new looks may only be deployed on the 20" and 24" models, leaving the 17" model's future uncertain.
und natürlich Leopard + keynote + iLife etc
ganz abgesehen von den Pro applicationen Final cut etc...
also nur Gutes was da kommt...
Appleinsider claims that the next version of Apple's iMac will showcase "striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten."
The new designs are said to be sleeker and slimmer than the current iMac designs, however, the new looks may only be deployed on the 20" and 24" models, leaving the 17" model's future uncertain.
The rumor site has no solid timeframe for the release of the new iMacs, but our Buyer's Guide suggests the iMac is overdue for an update, with the last update being delivered in September 2006.
This would represent the 4th major iMac design revision since its introduction. (Original, iMac G4, Current)
cultom
Ich weigere mich daher (bis ich gegenteiliges sehe) von einem Branding beim iPhone auszugehen.
Zu den Themes: die wird es auch wegen des Grundes, der auch Fremdsoftware vom iPhone verbannt, nicht geben: Alles soll so aussehen, wie es Apple sich überlegt hat. Das ist doch bei Mac OS und X und allen Anwendungen so. Skins sind verpönt bei Apple und Benutzeroberflächen-Experten. Und die Oberfläche ist doch das wichtigste an dem ganzen Gerät. Wie beim iPod. Musik spielen sie alle, aber die Bedienung macht den Unterschied. Und die 'User-Experience' wird sich Apple nicht von einem übermotivierten Vodafone-Marketing-Praktikanten mit komischen Animationen und Themes verhageln lassen. Darauf könnte ich fast schwören so sicher bin ich mir.
Ein kleines Logo beim Einschalten? Wahrscheinlich schon. Aber höchstens ein Apfel :)
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless, the mobile unit of AT&T Inc., has received about 1 million requests for information on Apple Inc.'s new iPhone, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday.
Cingular, which is being rebranded as AT&T, will be the first U.S. wireless service to sell the music-playing iPhone when Apple, the maker of the popular iPod music player, begins selling the phones in June.
While the biggest U.S. wireless service is not taking advance orders for the phone, it set up a section on its Web site inviting visitors to leave their e-mail addresses to receive information about the phone when it is released.
"One million people have asked us to call when this phone is available," Stephenson said during a keynote speech at the CTIA wireless technology conference.
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Microsofts Wechsel auf Windows Vista sorgt im ersten Jahresquartal für schlechte Absatzzahlen im internationalen Computermarkt, allein Apple bleibt auch 2007 sorglos. Das zumindest legt eine Untersuchung des Finanzdienstleisters Morgan Stanley nahe: Während der ersten zwei Monate des Jahres sei es Apple unter allen Computerherstellern am besten gegangen, erklärt Analystin Kathryn Huberty vor Investoren. Die Einführung von Microsofts neuem Betriebssystem habe auf den Mac-Hersteller keine Auswirkungen, sein Wachstum gehe unvermittelt weiter: Im Vergleich zu den jeweiligen Vorjahresquartalen sei die Anzahl verkaufter Macs im Januar um 71 Prozent gestiegen, im Februar sogar um 72 Prozent. Die Zahlen beruhen auf einer Befragung ausgewählter Business-Kunden und Retail-Händler. Im PC-Markt hingegen konnten sich zu Anfang des Jahres viele Anwender nicht dazu entschließen, vor der Einführung von Vista im Februar noch einen neuen Computer zu kaufen. Die saisonbedingte Flaute nach dem Weihnachtsgeschäft habe ihr Übriges getan und Lenovo im Vergleich zum Vorjahresquartal lediglich 3 Prozent Wachstum verzeichnen können, Hewlett-Packard gehe es ähnlich. Morgan Stanley rechnet damit, dass Apple im April bei der Bekanntgabe der Zahlen das zweites Finanzquartal die eigenen Erwartungen und die der Anleger übertreffen wird.
Zur Visualisierung habe ich mal ein bisschen in Photoshop gebastelt. In den Chart unten habe ich den Kurs sowohl in USD (schwarz) als auch in EUR (rot) reingefriemelt. Man sieht sehr gut, wie der schwache Dollar (grün) an der Performance nagt.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - There are lots of good reasons to own shares of Apple Inc.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs has transformed the iconic PC maker into the dominant player in the digital-music market, posting top line growth that has left its traditional rivals in the dust.
Thanks to continued strong demand for the company's iPod media player, Apple sales are expected to rise 26% to $24.3 billion for its fiscal year ending in September.
By contrast, big PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. are expected to post single-digit sales growth at best. And Microsoft Corp., Apple's archenemy in markets ranging from software to handheld music players, is seen posting top line growth of 14%, helped by its first update of Windows (now Vista) in five years.
And just when analysts were beginning to question how long the iPod could continue to drive growth, Jobs unveiled the iPhone, which puts Apple into the market for a combination cell phone and MP3 player. Some fund managers see the gadget as providing another leg for the Apple growth story to stand on.
Clearly, if you're looking for growth in the universe of large-cap PC-related issues, Apple has been the place to be.
Still, there's also a good reason not to own Apple shares - they're relatively expensive after a 12-month bull run that has seen the stock surge 50%, compared to a 4% rise in the Nasdaq Composite Index.
For its fiscal year ending in September, Apple is expected by Wall Street analysts to earn $3.25 a share.
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By contrast, the average P/E of technology shares in the S&P 500 Index was 20 at the beginning of March.
The latest leg up in Apple shares came after Wall Street analysts began goosing their fiscal year earnings estimates to reflect what Apple might earn from the iPhone.
The fact that analysts were raising estimates BEFORE Apple announced the product was a red flag to one fund manager, who sold off his Apple stake after holding the shares for about a year.
"That told us things were getting a little bit crazy," said Connor Browne, co-manager of the Thornburg Value Fund (TVAFX :
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It's worth noting that Browne is by no means bearish on Apple, which he thinks will continue to see strong growth in sales of both iPods and Macintosh computers.
Still, when Wall Street analysts begin building in assumptions for a product that doesn't have a shipping date, as the iPhone didn't until two months ago, "you can assume that most of the optimism is already built into the stock price," said Browne.
The most recent run-up in Apple shares have them back trading near all-time highs, despite the market turbulence that has knocked down other big tech stocks from near-term highs.
With Apple shares having risen about sevenfold during the past three years, dwarfing the returns of the broader market for tech shares, investors sitting on profits may want to think like Browne and prudently take them off the table. End of Story
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. and music label EMI Group Plc plan to announce "an exciting new digital offering," EMI said on Sunday, a move that could involve putting the Beatles music catalogue online.
EMI said it plans to hold a news conference on Monday at its London headquarters where EMI Chief Executive Eric Nicoli will be joined by Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs, the company said in an e-mail to reporters.
A live Webcast of the event, which will feature "a special live performance," will be available at http://www.emigroup.com beginning at 1 p.m. local time in London.
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Currently, no Beatles songs can be downloaded via online music services. EMI has been the distributor for the Beatles since the early 1960s.
The news event follows the settlement in February of a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Inc., which recently changed its name from Apple Computer Inc., and the Beatle's company, Apple Corps Ltd. This cleared away a major hurdle for selling the Fab Four's songs on Apple Inc.' iTunes online music store.
Apple Corps is owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison.
The music company had maintained that the computer company had violated a series of agreements stretching back decades over use of the Apple trademark by entering the music business through its now market-leading iTunes online store.
The Beatles are high-profile holdouts from Internet music services such as iTunes, but it also emerged during a trial last year that Apple Corps was preparing the band's catalogue to be sold online for the first time
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) and EMI Group PLC (EMI.LN), Monday unveiled a plan to sell digital music in unprotected formats in a bid to buoy sales of digital music.
The announcement marks a major strategy shift both for Apple, whose iTunes Web site accounts for around 80% of legal music downloads, and for EMI, one of the world's four largest music companies, whose major artists include the Beatles, Norah Jones and Joss Stone.
"By providing DRM-free downloads, we aim to address the lack of interoperability which is frustrating for many music fans. We believe that offering consumers the opportunity to buy higher quality tracks and listen to them on the device or platform of their choice will boost sales of digital music," said Eric Nicoli, chief executive of EMI in a statement Monday.
"Selling digital music DRM-free is the right step forward for the music industry," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
Digital Rights Management (or DRM) software has been the cornerstone of the music industry's attempts to prevent the unauthorized downloading and copying of music since the launch of digital download services.
In recent months an increasingly vocal lobby of executives and technology experts have argued that the DRM system does little to prevent piracy and acts as a disincentive to consumers.
DRM software typically restricts music to certain listening devices, such as Apple's iPod, and bars consumers from making multiple copies of the music.
In February, Jobs issued a call to the music industry to abandon DRM in an "open letter" published on the Apple Web site.
On Monday, Apple said iTunes will make individual tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/EUR1.29/GBP0.99. iTunes will continue to offer tracks to consumers at $0.99/EUR0.99/GBP0.79 but these will have standard sound quality and with DRM still applied. Customers who have already purchased standard tracks with DRM will be able to upgrade their digital music for $0.30/EUR0.30/GBP0.20 per track. All EMI music videos will also be available on iTunes DRM-free with no change in price.
It remains unclear whether the other large music companies, which include Universal, a unit of Vivendi (12777.FR), Sony BMG, a joint venture between Sony Corp. (SNE) and Bertelsmann. A.G. (BRT.YY) and Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) will follow suit.
Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music's chairman, said at a conference shortly after Jobs's call to action that Apple's argument was "without merit."
"DRM and interoperability aren't the same thing," Bronfman said.
Industry analysts have argued for some time that the removal of DRM will give consumers an added incentive to buy digital music.
But stock analysts who cover EMI said the news would have a limited short-term impact on the company's shares.
Miranda Carr, of Teather & Greenwood, said that while the initiative was "generally welcome", there was "limited visibility" on the impact it would have on EMI. She pointed out that until most or all of the major music companies agreed to scrap copyright protection, EMI's actions would have limited momentum on consumers, who identify music by artist and label, more than its ultimate corporate owner.
EMI has issued two profits warnings since the start of 2007 amid a steep decline in U.S. CD sales.
The company has been involved in repeated attempts to merge with Warner Music. In the most recent set of discussions, EMI said it had received and rejected a "non-binding" proposal from Warner Music at 260 pence per share, in early March.
Record industry mergers are currently overshadowed by continuing uncertainty over the legality of the Sony BMG merger. The European Union in 2006 overturned previous merger clearance granted to the deal.
At 1230 GMT, shares in EMI were up 0.75 pence, or 0.3%, at 228.25 pence in a higher U.K. market.
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DRM-freie Songs von EMI ab Mai für 1,29 Euro erhältlich
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München, 02.04.07 – Apple hat am 2. April angekündigt, dass der gesamte digitale Musikkatalog von EMI Music ab Mai im iTunes Store DRM-frei (ohne Kopierschutz) zur Verfügung stehen wird. Jeder Song wird für 1,29 Euro, in einer höheren Audioqualität mit 256 kbps im AAC-Format kodiert, angeboten und ist damit von der Originalaufnahme nicht mehr zu unterscheiden. Zusätzlich haben iTunes Kunden die Möglichkeit, ihre komplette Sammlung an bisher erworbener EMI Musik für 30 Cent pro Song in eine qualitativ höherwertige, DRM-freie Version umzuwandeln. iTunes wird weiterhin seinen kompletten Katalog, derzeit über fünf Millionen Songs, im AAC-Format mit 128 kbps und DRM, zum bisherigen Preis von 0,99 Euro pro Song anbieten. Daneben wird es, je nach Verfügbarkeit, kopierschutzfreie Versionen in höherer Audioqualität geben.
"Wir lassen den iTunes Kunden die Wahl - entweder die jetzigen Versionen unserer Songs zum gleichen Preis von 99 Cent oder neue DRM-freie Versionen in noch höherer Audioqualität und der sichergestellten Interoperabilität für gerade einmal 30 Cent mehr", sagt Steve Jobs, CEO von Apple. "Wir gehen davon aus, dass unsere Kunden das zu schätzen wissen und erwarten, bis zum Ende des Jahres mehr als die Hälfte der bisher auf iTunes verfügbaren Songs in DRM-freien Versionen anbieten zu können."
"EMI und iTunes haben sich erneut zusammengetan, um die digitale Musikindustrie voranzubringen und den Fans DRM-freie Musik ihrer Lieblingskünstler in besserer Audioqualität, die von den Originalaufnahmen nicht mehr zu unterscheiden ist, anzubieten", erklärt Eric Nicoli, CEO der EMI Group.
Analyst erwartet starkes AAPL-Wachstum, Q2-Ergebnisse am 25. April
Die Apple-Aktie wird noch weiter steigen, davon ist Stephen Coleman laut einem Bericht des Finanzmagazins SeekingAlpha überzeugt. Die iPod Verkäufe wüchsen bislang von Jahr zu Jahr um nahezu 50 Prozent und laut dem Analysten könne sich dieser Trend fortsetzen. Er geht davon aus, dass Apple im Jahr 2007 60 Millionen iPods verkaufen wird. Im Januar 2007 könne Apple sogar doppelt so viele Macs verkauft haben als noch im Januar des Vorjahres, insgesamt könnte der Hersteller über das ganze Jahr hinweg 12 Millionen neue Geräte absetzen. Ob Coleman mit seiner Prognose für die ersten drei Monate des laufenden Jahres Recht behält, lässt sich spätestens am 25. April mit Bestimmtheit sagen: Dann stellt Apple die Finanzergebnisse für das zweite Geschäftsquartal vor, das am 31. März zu Ende gegangen ist. (tkr)
In den letzten Tagen kamen nur gute NEWS um APPLE, aber der Markt macht nix draus. Ich hoffe das Buck sein Scheinchen nicht noch ausgeknockt wird. Ansonsten bin ich auf Sicht von 12 Monaten sehr sehr positiv gestimmt.
cultom
Ich glaub die Meldung über die geschlagenen Erwartungen in Q2 ist einfach schon im Kurs drin, beim Ausblick hatt Apple selbst ja ordentlich tiefgestapelt. Daher kaum eine Reaktion.
Die DRM-freie Musik sehe ich aber auch positiv. Zum einen entkommt man dadurch der europäischen Verbraucherschutz-Debatte. Zum anderen kann sich die neue Freiheit wenn überhaupt dann nur positiv auf das gesamte iPod-iTunes-Ökosystem auswirken. Und das bedeutet ein dickes Plus. Es gibt zwar das Risiko, dass sich die freien Titel schlechter verkaufen (da leichter kopierbar). Aber nach wie vor ist ja der Gewinn aus dem iTunes-Store egal. Das hat Apple ganz schön schlau angestellt.
Da haben wir nochmal die Kurve bekommen. ;o) Der Schein steigt auch wieder und der Turbo wurde im Depot gezündet. Ich denke das wir jetzt sehr schnell wieder in Richtung 97USD steigen. Eine Überwindung der 100USD Marke erwarte ich bei überraschend sehr guten Quartalszahlen. Ich setze hierbei auf hohe Mac-Verkäufe. Alleine in meinem Freundeskreis wurden 4 neue Macs gekauft von sogenannten Switchern. Apple ist in aller Munde und entwickelt sich immer mehr zur Style-Marke mit gigantischem "Haben muss" Faktor! ;o)
cultom
Acht Kerne für den Mac Pro
Ein gigantisches schwarzes Banner auf Apple.com kündigt an: Apple rüstet den Mac Pro nun auf Wunsch auch mit acht Prozessorkernen aus. Die neue Konfiguration basiert auf zwei Xeon-Prozessoren mit je vier Kernen und kostet in den USA gegenüber der Standardvariante für 2.499 US-Dollar 1.498 Dollar Aufpreis. Darüber hinaus hat der Hersteller die Preise für Displays gesenkt
First iPod Came Out in November 2001
Apple said Monday that it has sold 100 million iPod music players since the first version was introduced in November 2001.
Since then, there have been 10 new models, including added features such as full color screens, devices that can play video, and smaller, lighter models, including those with no screens at all.
"We want to thank music lovers everywhere for making iPod such an incredible success," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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The company, which recently changed its name from Apple Computer, is expected to release its first cell phone, the iPhone, in June. That device combines a digital music player with a version of Apple's OS X operating system that makes it a palmtop computer as well.
It was also noted for its buttonless touchscreen interface that takes up almost all of one side of the gadget.