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Still Making Bank (10/4/98)
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Hey, the final quarter in Apple's fiscal year just ended on Wednesday, September 29th, and the press appears to expect some pretty good results. Instead of seeing the vultures circling lazily over Apple's near-carcass, now our favorite computer company seems to have pulled off four consecutive profitable quarters. That's a solid year of black ink. Whodathunkit? For one perspective on the upcoming numbers, check out this NewsBytes article.
The great news is, not only is everyone expecting Apple to announce its fourth straight profit, but several seem to think that this latest quarter may be Apple's best one yet. That'd be a nice coup, because it would mean that Apple's profit grew during each consecutive quarter of the past fiscal year. That's growth-- of one kind, anyway. We expect to hear about all kinds of growth in the near future: not just profit growth, but unit sales and market share growth due to the iMac's overwhelming success, and perhaps personnel expansion due to the need for more bodies to help build all the computers that customers want to buy. (iMac supply certainly appears to be under control-- on Saturday our local Microcenter had five display units up and running and dozens more boxed and ready for sale. Now how about doing the same for Power Macs and PowerBooks, which are still rumored to be relatively scarce?)
While we're on the subject, keep your eyes peeled for the latest AtAT "Beat the Analysts" contest, our quarterly shindig in which you, our viewers, try to put those snooty analysts in their place by guessing Apple's end-of-quarter financial results more accurately than the so-called "experts." If you win, you not only receive some lame software from the Baffling Vault of Antiquity®, but you also gets to bask in the glory that is a cameo appearance on AtAT (i.e., your name in lights). So start working those slide rules; your guesses will be solicited shortly.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/4/98 episode: October 4, 1998: The first non-warranty-voiding floppy option for the iMac makes its grand entrance. Meanwhile, Apple's dress code for volunteers seems stricter than its code for employees used to be, but they do keep that black ink flowing...
Other scenes from that episode: 1052: Ballad of the Floppy (10/4/98) Ah, the 3.5-inch floppy drive... that long-entrenched yet much-maligned storage device that graces almost every modern desktop computer in existence-- with the exception of the iMac. Never mind that the floppy drive is old, slow, unreliable, and very low-capacity; apparently some people would rather drive meat thermometers into both their ears than buy a computer without a floppy... 1053: Gotta Be The Shoes (10/4/98) It's official-- the debut of Mac OS 8.5 is slated for less than two weeks from now. On October 17th, Mac users all over the world will have yet another system software upgrade to consider buying. It's hard to believe that Mac OS 8 has been out for well over a year, now-- about fifteen months, actually...
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