Apple…it’s like the exact opposite of terrorism!!

January 16, 2007

So said John Mayer at Macworld, while on stage…the full quote:

“Apple Inc. just kinda makes life more fun…it’s like the exact opposite of terrorism…it’s amazing…makes me feel code green!”

We couldn’t agree more!! Would that make the exact opposite of Apple (ahem, Microsoft) equal to terrorism?? Sitting here at Apple Recon World Headquarters, in lovely (and snowy) Seattle, WA…we probably shouldn’t make those kinds of statements or we may suddenly vanish into the night…if this is our last post, you all know what happened to us!!

If you don’t believe us, check the stream yourself at Apple.  John says it in between the two songs he was playing.

More on this developing story as it unfolds…hopefully the same Justice Department that let Microsoft off the hook for being a monopoly won’t come calling now that we’ve disparaged their friends in Redmond (who apparently get NSA tips on how to secure their operating system)…but seriously, what self respecting Apple rumor site doesn’t have bad stuff to say about them?  Okay, they’re not ALL bad…in fact, we know a couple of Microsofties that aren’t too evil.  If only we could get Jack Bauer and company up here to kick ass on the other 99% of the company…

Keep on fighting the good fight, John…and all the others who got Apple’s back, we’re right there with you.  How does that align with reporting on Apple rumors (which Apple seems to think hurts the company?)…rumors and fan sites keep the fires burning of the faithful, gives us something to think about and talk about…we are NOT in the business of passing on trade secrets or intellectual property of Apple, Inc. and find that type of behavior disgusting…but we are in the business of commentary, entertainment, and excitement…which as John would say, “just kinda makes life more fun”.

Sound off below, or as always, feedback is welcome at applerecon@gmail.com (our first time publishing that as a link, let’s test out gmail’s spam filters!!). We’ll see you all again real soon…

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Quick, beat the street!

January 16, 2007

Argh, where is January going?? Tomorrow is already Wednesday, January 17, 2007…and you know what that means, folks…Apple Quarterly Earnings time!  Aren’t you just about to wet yourself with anticipation?  We would be…maybe…if we had some stock.  Anyway, since we’re all about rumors and recon and so forth, what kind of self respecting Apple fanatic site wouldn’t speculate on the quarterly results?  Without further ado…

Apple’s guidance was revenues of $6-6.2 billion with earnings per share of $.70-73.  Well, we’ll go out on a limb here and say that since they had the top selling laptop on Amazon, top selling MP3 players EVERYWHERE, and didn’t seem to be running out of product most anywhere, they’re going to “beat the street” and earnings will come in around $.80 per share with revenunes more in the $6.8-7.0 billion range.  We wouldn’t be surprised to see revenues a little lower than that, maybe split the difference between us an the guidance…people are worried about margins, thinking that the iPod Shuffle would have hurt them…we don’t think so, Apple knows that if you sell a LOT of something (as they did with the Shuffle this Christmas) you can make up your margins in economies of scale…so, we will go out on a limb and say Apple had a very, VERY good holiday season…and hopefully they won’t prove us wrong!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled rumormongering.

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