Gartner: Apple should quit hardware business

ZDNet UK ^ | October 18, 2006, 16:55 BST | Andrew Donoghue

[Swordmaker]

Right, sure... Let's see... Apple just reported 1.61 Million Macs and 8.45 million iPods sold in one quarter... with an average margin of 29.7%. resulting in a half a billion dollar PROFIT.

This guy thinks they would be better off selling $129 copies of OS X discounted to $50 to Dell... how many would they have to sell to Dell at $50 each to equal the profit they just posted???

Only 10,000,000... each quarter. Right, sure.

This guy can't analyze his way out of a wet paper bag!

[Swordmaker]

This is a sublter form of FUD but FUD none-the-less... PING!

Just another form of "Apple's going to go out of business any day now!"... which is the reason a Windows user told me just this afternoon why he wouldn't switch to Macs.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[misterrob]

That's likely because Dell, Intel and Microsoft pay Gartner $1 million each per year in fees and Apple pays $500K.

[Tribune7]

And just Apple doing ignoring Gartner's advice?

[jimtorr]

Eh! Gartner has a long history of stupidity when it comes to Apple. He is reliable. He always says that Apple is doomed just before or after they take off.

Others have that talent, as well. I recall about 12 years ago, when Apple stock was mired down in the $12 - $15 dollar range. The San Jose Murkie News, who like to fancy themselves as the newspaper of record for Silicon Valley, ran a series of stories about how Apple was doomed.

Within two weeks, the stock took off, and went from $12 to $60 in three days.

[BunnySlippers]

Moron! IMO hardware is one solid reason Macs have been easy to use. If I want a piece if cr*p I'll by a PC!

[Richard Kimball]

Some goof writes this exact same column at least five times a year. I think clone manufacturers desperately want a sellable alternative to Windows and push this concept, hoping Apple will bite, and giving them leverage against MS.

[Echo Talon]

even better make the software run on PC.

[Norman Arbuthnot]

This guy sounds like a total idiot. He clearly does not understand how valuable Jonathan Ive has been to Apple.

[coconutt2000]

Gartner is republishing his old work?

[antiRepublicrat]

So instead of this when I open my case:

I get this jumble of wires and cards?

Oh HELL no!

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... but it sounds like something just crazy enough for Jobs to be thinking about it. However, I think his next abrupt and surprising move will be in four or five years, when he changes chip suppliers again.

[Swordmaker]

Lot's of laughts: Gartner reports Apple Market Share up to 6.1% from 4.6%

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[DesScorp]

Gartner are just a bunch of whores....they'll do a position paper touting anything (or ripping anything) if the money is right. Apple's market share is now up over 6 percent, and dollar to doughnuts, when Vista arrives with all of it's myriad issues, Apple will likely hit 10 percent.

[coon2000]

If that were the case, I will go back to an abacus and a typewriter.

[CheneyChick]

Did you see the NASDAQ action on AAPL today?

[antiRepublicrat]

However, I think his next abrupt and surprising move will be in four or five years, when he changes chip suppliers again.

I think Jobs made the smart move this time. Apple could never buy chips in enough volume to justify the R&D on chips that mostly went to Apple. They got bit twice on that. Now they're with a supplier who will improve their chips whether or not Apple even exists. Plus Apple can just move to AMD with relatively little effort.

[Echo Talon]

have fun changing the processor in the Mac Pro. :)

[Echo Talon]

If that were the case, I will go back to an abacus and a typewriter.

OSX ALREADY runs on PC but JOBS makes illegal to do so...
because he sucks.