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Posted on 04/25/2006 6:07:08 PM PDT by Panerai
PiperJaffray senior analyst Gene Munster today maintained an "outperform" rating on Apple shares with a price target of $99, following an examination of data from his Amazon Top Seller list ratings. Apple's iPod is flourishing on the lists for portable MP3 players and all electronics, holding all 10 spots in the top 10. The analyst believes that Apple's iPod is still gaining market share, noting the device's recent rise to 77.9 percent in March, up from 76.8 percent in February. "We believe the increase is noteworthy given that the last time we recorded 10 iPods in the Top 10 occurred on September 9th, 2005, prior to the holiday shopping season," Munster noted. The number of Macs in the Top 10 and Top 20 decreased to eight and nine, from nine and 11, respectively. "The eight in the Top 10 remains at the upper end of all observations since we began tracking the Top Sellers," Munster wrote.
"For a point of reference, there were five Macs in the Top 10 one year ago. We believe that increase is primarily due to the recent launch of the new Intel=based iMac and MacBook Pros."
Munster also noted the steadily increasing internet traffic to Apple's website, indicating a growing interest in the company and its products.
"Apple.com has had a significant increase in 'reach' over the past quarter, which we believe is mainly the result of Apple's new product launches at Macworld on January 10th," Munster told clients in a his research report. "Apple's three-month average traffic rank of 45 on April 20th is the best value that we have observed for apple.com since we've tracked the Alexa data."
Alexa.com is a Web-based information provider that tracks statistics for nearly every main domain name in existence, and is particularly useful for identifying which websites are important to surfers. The "reach" rating signifies the number of users of a site, and Alexa.com expresses this statistic as the number of users per million.
"Apple's 3-month average reach of 13,255,000 on April 20th is the second best value that has been observed (high was on 13,300,000 on March 1st)," the analyst added. "While we realize Web 'traffic rankings' and 'reach' are not perfect measures of actual sales, we believe they are a decent indicator of overall mindshare."
PiperJaffray believes Apple will have shipped more than 85 million iPods by the end of 2006, providing Apple with a greater scope of awareness for various products, or a "halo effect." The company announced in its March quarter conference call that it had shipped 50 million iPods through the end of March 2005.
thats why Apple sucks! LOL
Basically, it's radio on demand. You don't actually need an iPod® to listen to them; any computer can download them and play them, and any MP3 player can handle them.
>>thats why Apple sucks! LOL<<
And yet they have legions of fans who generally big business...go figure.
And what a world we live in - Apple now has more cash on hand than the market of GM.
how they pull the wool over people eyes is beyond me, if this isn't a monopoly scam I don't know what is.
download your music from napster, you can play it in mp3 players and on your computer.
http://www.emusic.com/about/index.html
better than downloading DRM crippled music from iTunes.
What exactly are the limitations of DRM? I use my iPod pretty much exclusively for my music no matter where I am at, so I'm not familiar where DRM would cause me problems.
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What happens when you stop paying your monthly fee to Napster?
You suddenly have a whole lot of useless files on your hard drive or player.
With Napster, you only rent your music. With iTunes, you own it.
Without the DRM encoded in the files this music would NOT be available legally in ANY digital format.
If you want to get your music from a non-DRM source, don't be surprised when you get slapped with a $3500 lawsuit for copyright infringement from RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). If Apple had not negotiated the DRM with the publishers and RIAA and guaranteed it to the music suppliers, they would not have made it available!
Didn't you say something similar about digital cameras? Funny, they don't seem to be dead yet.
Here's a hint - all-in-one devices rarely do any of their tasks well and people usually hate them. The phone-as-camera still hasn't made a dent in digicam sales, and the phone-as-music player hasn't yet (and probably won't) make a dent in *any* over-$50 MP3 player sales.
Bzzzt. Wrong. You can burn *any* iTunes song to an MP3 or Audio CD. Then you can play it on anything.
Again, Apple lets you own your music. Surprise!
Sony already tried. SonyConnect, remember?
Oh, and if you think AAC is bad, you should have been HORRIFIED at Sony's ATRAC - which the marketplace promptly shot down.
then a "sony walkman/video player"(Ipod) will never catch on!
What about when you download it from P2P sites? FREE
In the 16th century, Apple introduced the iCod, which was a necessary addition to the pantaloons then in vogue...
Meanwhine...
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Posted on 04/20/2006 4:02:59 AM EDT by Swordmaker
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