Oct 2007
Prepare For Glory!
October/31/2007 00:30 Filed in:
Apple News
Since releasing Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Apple sold (or delivered, in the case of maintenance agreements) more than 2 million copies of the sixth major release of Mac OS X, far outpacing the first weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. “Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Leopard’s innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac.” [Oct 30, 2007. News from Apple]
AAPL hit 52-week All-Time high of 189.37 at 14:00 Hrs. (EDT) on Oct 30, 2007.
King Leonidas Advised You...
October/28/2007 21:11 Filed in:
Blog News
The Day Of Leopard
October/27/2007 02:50 Filed in:
Apple News
Today, Apple
officially releases Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Hong Kong Retail Price:
HK$1,000.Less Than 6 Hours To Unleash
October/26/2007 12:05 Filed in:
Apple News
Someone Shot The Snow Leopard
October/26/2007 11:04 Filed in:
Apple News
Don't Panic! The snow leopard is still
alive. Someone from Apple Campus sent me the screen shots of true
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Retail Version.
Let's take a closer look...
Full screen view with gorgeous Aurora Desktop Background picture.
Leopard in Mac Pro, powered by Intel QC Xeon 2 x 2.66 GHz CPU, hefty stuffed with 16 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory Modules. I have no words.
Picture shown gear-up with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 display card, 512MB video memory, of course.
Fabulous 3-D Dock with Aqua effects.
Cover-Flow browsing at Finder's level, a look alike of iTunes viewing style. A useful smart feature for photographer to preview tons of photos swiftly.
P.S. Many thanks, Dude!
Let's take a closer look...
Full screen view with gorgeous Aurora Desktop Background picture.
Leopard in Mac Pro, powered by Intel QC Xeon 2 x 2.66 GHz CPU, hefty stuffed with 16 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory Modules. I have no words.
Picture shown gear-up with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 display card, 512MB video memory, of course.
Fabulous 3-D Dock with Aqua effects.
Cover-Flow browsing at Finder's level, a look alike of iTunes viewing style. A useful smart feature for photographer to preview tons of photos swiftly.
P.S. Many thanks, Dude!
Let's Meet Leopard, Today!
October/26/2007 02:34 Filed in:
Apple News
AAPL on Rollercoaster Ride
October/25/2007 23:48 Filed in:
Wall Street
Apple released Q4 Earnings financial results a couple of days ago. AAPL was boosted up to a new All-Time High of 188.60 due to remarkable revenue and growth. “Apple ended the fiscal year with $15.4 billion in cash and no debt,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.
However, investors took profits at high points and dipped abruptly to 180, where the supporting level at 179 and rebounded to 186. Pre-market and Extended Hour trading fluctuated between 186-189 level.
October 25, 2007 (Thu 11:28 EDT). AAPL dipped from 189.35 to 184 level. huge volatility happened. AAPL trades at 183 on 13:19 Hours (EDT).
Apple Q4 Profit Bounces To 904 Millions
October/23/2007 09:25 Filed in:
Apple News
Quarterly Mac Sales Set New
Record
Quarterly iPhone Sales Exceed One Million
CUPERTINO, California—October 22, 2007—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of $542 million, or $.62 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 33.6 percent, up from 29.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac® shipments by 400,000. The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 17 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.
“We are very pleased to have generated over $24 billion in revenue and $3.5 billion in net income in fiscal 2007,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re looking forward to a strong December quarter as we enter the holiday season with Apple’s best products ever.”
“Apple ended the fiscal year with $15.4 billion in cash and no debt,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $9.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.42.”
Quarterly iPhone Sales Exceed One Million
CUPERTINO, California—October 22, 2007—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of $542 million, or $.62 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 33.6 percent, up from 29.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac® shipments by 400,000. The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 17 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.
“We are very pleased to have generated over $24 billion in revenue and $3.5 billion in net income in fiscal 2007,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re looking forward to a strong December quarter as we enter the holiday season with Apple’s best products ever.”
“Apple ended the fiscal year with $15.4 billion in cash and no debt,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $9.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.42.”
Leopard Roars
October/19/2007 02:47 Filed in:
Apple News
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard finally off the cage on October 26, 2007. With 300+ features to unleash the power of your Mac.
Retail Price: US$129 (HK$1,000)
A Fresh Web Look
October/17/2007 18:28 Filed in:
Blog News
I trim a bit to shrink the horizontal width to 950 pixels, and it seems better to suit the cascading styled face-lift.
Picture shown above is the web look in vertical and horizontal orientation of my blog using the 1000 pixels bloated width, browsing through the gorgeous iPhone's Safari Browser.
Keep improving is my goal. I feel good about it.
Wonderful pix. Thanks, Dude!
Caution! Men At Work!
October/16/2007 11:04 Filed in:
Blog News
My blog is under construction.
I asked my buddy, J.T. Lee the other day for a face-lift of my blog's theme. J.T. took the advantage of his insomnia and finished up this refreshing theme early in the morning and I find it stunning, no question asked, no string attached. So we are going to fire up the new blog theme and beta test it now.
This blog theme is viewed best at 1280 monitor resolution, wider horizontal orientation that provided larger photos will be displayed in the future. J.T. retains the dark background theme banner which is best matched for the photo album design.
Please feel free to comment, and hit us with a lot of "iBricks", iPhones, or even iPods, that enable us to trim n' tune to a better interface.
The Cat & The Mouse
October/12/2007 19:00 Filed in:
Blog News
This is obviously the game of the Cat n' Mouse.
Apple released the iPhone, iphoneSimFree team unlocked it with their smart software based decipher. Apple 'iBrick' the iPhone with new firmware upgraded to v1.1.1 and successfully killed all the "illegal" iPhones like a brick.
Apple retaliates, iphoneSimFree escalates. Awesome!
iphoneSimFree team recently released the "un-bricking" SimFree v1.6 version, in order to set free the crippled "iBricks". Details can be further reviewed at iphoneSimFree website.
SimFree is a commercial software, you have to pay for it.
AAPL, Another Day In Paradise
October/12/2007 08:11 Filed in:
Wall Street
What a Bungie Jump of AAPL today!
That's what we called "Speculation" （投机买卖）. AAPL pushed to a new all-time high of 171.88 and slashed to a dip from 167.03 to 159.43 in a short period of 8 minutes. Big-time fund managers dumped and short AAPL for profit taking to trigger the landslide, once dived to a 153.21 day-low, while AAPL trades between the level with 145 to 171 in Extended Hours.
AAPL is expected more fluctuations on Friday. Guys! buckle up and enjoy the ride to US$180.
AAPL Have A Lift-Off
October/03/2007 13:35 Filed in:
Wall Street
Credit: 5-Day Chart from Google Finance.
AAPL was still at $153 position a week ago. Today, AAPL apparently hit another all-time high position of $158, as psychological hurdle at $160. Beware of fluctuations due to rapid growth of this stock. AAPL fundamentals are healthy, aim high AAPL up to $180 in December 2007, however.