Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Software, Apple, App Store
There's a flurry of rumors this morning that Apple is planning an event as soon as this January, though exactly what they'll be showing us is still in question. Most...Munster: An Apple tablet in March?
Piper Jaffray's senior analyst weighs in on the chances of a January announcement
In a note to clients Wednesday, Gene Munster put his spin on recent rumors regarding the Apple (AAPL) tablet computer that nobody has seen but everybody is talking about.
Acknowledging media reports — including one in the current Financial Times — of an Apple...
Overall Mac sales up 21%, desktops up 74% year over year
Filed under: Hardware, Retail, iMac
The Mac's holiday momentum
A pair of analysts see an end-of-the-year uptick in Apple's computer sales
"Our conversations with industry contacts suggest that the Mac shipment levels have improved over the last two weeks," writes J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz in a report to clients issued Monday morning.
In that report, he raised his both his estimate for Mac sales in the...
Next year's iPhone
An analyst describes the smartphone innovations he expects from Apple in 2010
In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster suggests three ways Apple (AAPL) can stay ahead of the coming wave of smartphones powered by Google's (GOOG) Android OS.
Build an iPhone for Verizon. Munster continues to believe there's a 70% chance Verizon...
Why did AAPL tank on Tuesday?
Apple fell 2.6% on Dec. 1 in an ugly close that left investors deeply suspicious
Apple had already dropped sharply twice on Tuesday — once at 10 a.m. and again at 3:25 p.m. — when, 12 minutes before the close, the volume of trading suddenly spiked and the stock went into freefall.
More than 3.5 million shares...
The Mac's cyber Black Friday
Apple's in-store sales fell sharply from 2008, but its online store traffic soared
A pair of reports from Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster tell the story.
The first, issued early Monday morning, gave the results of a headcount performed at three Apple (AAPL) retail stores on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday selling season. Although the...
China iPhone launch a 'disappointment'
Analysts adjust their Chinese iPhone estimates following sales that one describes as "soft"
Following press reports that China Unicom (CHU) only managed to sign up 5,000 new iPhone subscribers after four days of sales, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster and Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes each issued notes to clients Tuesday that tried to put a positive spin...
Retail data show Mac sales up 13%
Several analysts waited until Monday morning — the same day Apple (AAPL) is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings report — to send clients their estimates of the company's unit sales (see here). But Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster waited longest of all.
Munster released a note at 1:54 p.m. Eastern — about two and a half...
A guide to Apple's guidance
How to make sense of the forward-looking statements in next week's earnings report
If history is any guide, traders will reward or punish Apple's (AAPL) shares in after-hours trading Monday based not on the quarterly earnings it reports, but on what the company says about the quarter to come — which will almost certainly be disappointing.
You...
Apple's 2009 earnings up nearly 44% under new accounting rules – analyst
How much will Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings be affected by the new accounting rules approved Wednesday?
A lot, says Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster.
In a note to clients issued early Thursday, Munster offered his estimated earnings per share under the new and old rules for fiscal years 2009 (which ends in two days) and 2010:
2009 EPS: $8.21,...
Munster Answers 14 Questions No One Was Asking