Analysts: Macs will continue to take market share from PCs

Are you sitting down for this one? Good. Here goes: Apple is going to keep taking market share from “traditional PCs.” I know, it’s a real shocker. But so says Zacks Investment Research (which is not, apparently, run by a dude named Zack as you’d think). They say that consumers are enjoying Apple’s innovations, and that a strong product line lead by the iPod, iPhone, and the MacBook Air will continue to increase Apple’s business and give them a bigger piece of the personal computing pie. Who knew?

But Zacks isn’t jumping into anything — they still say that the iPod line will slow down over the next few years, so they’re going “hold” with AAPL. Still, it’s a good thing they told us about that marketshare thing. Without analysts like these, we’d have no idea what we’re buying lately.

[via MacBytes]

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AAPL recovering after initial WWDC nosedive

In heavy trading volume today, Apple stock (AAPL) is down four percent after initially dropping to 176.23 halfway through the keynote at 1:55 p.m. Eastern time.

At the time of posting, AAPL was trading near 177, which is a decline of over four percent since the closing bell yesterday.

Apple stock has taken hits in the past on announcement days, usually due to traders looking to make a quick buck from the high interest surrounding coverage of the event.

An update, after the jump.

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Number of iPhones to be Sold in 2008 will shatter 10 million

Number of iPhones to be Sold in 2008

I have read many analysts reports about how many of the iPhones will or will not sell and their thoughts as to why Apple will break the magic 10 million sold mark and found the analysts just do not get Apple or the iPhone sales.  I thought I would pass on a collective of what I know as to why the iPhone will shatter the 10 million mark this year.

1. Number of countries to sell the iPhone for the initial release was 1.  I believe Apple sold 700k of the iPhones the first weekend it was on sale.  Number of countries to sell the iPhone this year so far is 69.  Apple should see a sales boost by adding carriers in 68 countries selling the iPhone.
2. Many people have been waiting some as long as a year to buy the iPhone because they read in the news it was slow on the Edge network and are still waiting for a 3G iPhone to buy.
3. Apple has most likely sold over 6 million iPhones have been sold to date.  Many of those people will buy the new faster 3G iPhone to replace the Edge iPhone.
4. Quarterly sales for the first quarter was 1.7 million iPhones in 5 countries.  What will quarterly sales be in 14 times that many countries for say the 3rd  quarter.
5. Supplies of the iPhone have dwindled to the point it is sold out in various outlets causing Apple to have to resupply all the outlets in the 5 countries it is currently sold in with the new models.
6. With 64 new countries to sell the iPhone Apple will also have to sell iPhones to all the carriers and outlets that will be selling the iPhone.  The numbers just to supply them with iPhones to sell is huge as it was reported that 250,000 outlets in India alone may need iPhones supplied to them for sale.  Even if Apple supplied each of those outlets with 5 each of two versions of iPhones that is 2.5 million iPhones leaving Apple with another 68 countries to supply.  If, as some rumors report, 3 versions of the iPhone are released the number is even higher.
7. 2.0 software.  Many people have been trained not to purchase 1.0 anything because of problems they experienced in the past so they have been waiting, some for as long as a year, for the 2.0 iPhone to come out to make their purchase.  This will only add to the sales.
8. 2.0 software again.  Corporate America has shown an interest in the iPhone.  According to Apple the software developers kit for the iPhone has been downloaded by 1/3 rd of the fortune 500 companies so they can design applications for the iPhone.  These same companies will also need to purchase iPhones for the employees so they can use those applications.  Reports of 3rd party companies are being released where they are building custom iPhone applications specifically for business customers who will need to purchase iPhones for the employees to run that software on.  Many businesses who said they could not use the iPhone yet because they wanted increased security and push e-mail will find the 2.0 software is designed to provide the security and functionality they need to switch.
9. 2.0 software yet again.  From cool games, home security, social networking apps, to applications many people have not even thought about are being created to run on the iPhone.  These new applications will boost demand for the iPhone further as some will want to play the cool games on them, some will feel they need the iPhone because of specific job related applications, and some will just buy the iPhone to use the home security features or the social networking features, etc.
10. Sales boost by discounting.  In the UK they discounted the 8 gig iPhone and sold out in a few days showing demand is very high for a discounted iPhone.  Rumors are floating around AT&T will discount the iPhone when purchased under contract.  This will spike the sales of the iPhone even higher when carriers around the world discount the iPhone like they do with other cell phones when purchased under contract.
11. Growing number of countries to sell the iPhone.  The list is still growing as more countries were added today.  Apple most likely will add carriers in more countries to the list in upcoming days or weeks that will be selling the iPhone. Read the rest of this entry

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