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What can we say about Apple’s new iMac that hasn’t already been written? Not much.
But for those who have concerns the styling of Apple’s new iMac is too new or futuristic,
we’d like to put your mind to rest. It’s a design that’s been around for years. How do we
know? Simple. Do you remember the Macintosh Cube? Many critics claimed that it had an
uncanny resemblance to the NeXT Cube, designed by Steve Jobs’s other computer
company years before Apple bought it.
When one critic called the new iMac the Apple iLamp, we got to thinking. The new iMac
does have an uncanny resemble to the characters in a short film produced by Steve Jobs’s
other company, Pixar Animation. Don’t believe us? Take a look for yourself. Don’t even try
and tell us the characters in this short film aren’t early iMac prototypes.
It’s refreshing to know Steve Jobs is looking to the past when he reaches for the future.
Now, if we could only get him to turn his gaze to Apple’s pre-1996 market share numbers.
The new iMac and its 150,000 pre-orders are evidence that the criteria for Yowza! factor
two has also been met!
#3 The stock has to be on the move in a decidedly upward direction.
Apple closed the month of January with a share price just shy of $25.00 per share. The
closing price on January 31st was the highest closing price for Apple’s stock in six months.
Since Apple released its earnings report for the first fiscal quarter of 2002, the stock price
has been gradually moving north. In brief, the numbers for the quarter ended in late
December are as follows:
• For the first fiscal quarter of 2002, Apple posted net earnings of $38 million or $.11
per share, in sharp contrast to losses or anemic earnings reported by most of the
company’s competitors.
• Apple shipped 746,000 Macs during the three-month period that was marked by
great uncertainty in the PC business.
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