Aaron posted Apple’s Q3 financial results yesterday, ending with a fingers-crossed hope that the company’s stock price would be heading uphill. Now if only he’d hope that I’d finally get that pony I’d always wanted. As of the moment, AAPL is trading at just shy of $61. Excellent.
Anyway, there were some other interesting tidbits in the conference call with Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppenheimer (pictured): the Intel Xserve and Power Mac will appear by the end of the year, as scheduled; Apple’s marketshare in the US laptop market has reportedly jumped from 6% to 12%; and the iTunes Music Store did a not too shabby $457 million in revenue. Also, Oppenheimer commented that almost half of the Mac buyers in Apple stores are new Mac owners, suggesting that perhaps the latest Get a Mac campaign has had some effect, though, according to Apple COO Tim Cook, much of the enthusiasm could also be attributed to the beta release of Boot Camp, of which Apple has had “significant” downloads.
And when asked about France’s recent DRM law, Oppenheimer got to drag out the old “state sponsored piracy” chestnut. Still, with loopholes so big you could drive a truck through them, it remains to be seen how much of an effect the legislation will have on Apple’s business.
