2.49 Million Macs worldwide is a 3.5% market share. Well up from the 3% they achieved this time last year. Congratulations!

I think Wall St is full of shit maybe Apple will all just go home and not sell anymore billions of dollars worth of merchandise possibly if St Steve is sick they will all pine away and no more profits ever.

Paris because she is short appl.

Twa@t makes guess at earnings. Actual company earnings different (doesn't matter if bigger or smaller). Tw@t publicly embarrassed at guessing wrong, and thus stock price must be punished. Nobody gets away with making the tw@t look bad. Nobody. Got it!

Tw@t makes new guess, cycle starts again.

how many of the Mac purchasers were closet Windows users who bought Macs just to be cool?

I would not wish anything bad on anyone, but if Mr. Jobs were to retire / step back in some other way, from Apple would they return to the beige old days, or more accurately not if but when, bets?

Purely speculation on my part, but could upturn in sales be actually due to nicely designed, easy to use computers that satisfy customers? We have a Macbook in the office, and I am always pleasantly surprised by its total reliability, quietness, instant-start-up and long battery life.

Compared to my 8-month old hi-end Sony laptop which really should have been a delight to own, but is hobbled by Vista Business - which makes it slow, unpredictable, struggles to find wifi network, short on battery life... All the 'cool' features of Vista we turn off to give it some decent performance. Same goes for the other Vista machines we buy.

So this morning, I made a decision to start buying Macs from now on, and keep the PCs around for legacy apps. I think we'll save money on productivity uptime from not having to keep loading updates. Put it this way, I feel unconfortable about buying a new Vista-based PC at the moment.

Dangers of samples of one obviously, but I wonder how many other SMEs are going through same decisions? I don't feel so sorry for Microsoft, but I think the decent PC makers like Sony, HP, Tosh and Dell are being (possibly) unfairly hammered by the poor quality of Vista.

Now use some of those profits and make a proper midrange desktop, dammit!

10:1 it's the Apple laptot catchup. Although they probably want to drop the mini they can't recycle so how about Apple reinvents the wheel and releases the MacBook Go?

We'll see what they'll bring.

Cannot think of anything wow, as we have more or less all we need.

A bigger touch, yes sure, but that isn't shocking.

Hey, thanks for the heart attack. AAPL is down 10% not 17%.

everyone knows that. The Jobbie being surrounded by 1 million of them will not survive the year. His own fault really.

It's MikeRoweSoft *losing* market. OEM's were stupid enough to hammer Vista into consumers; they did it so well that people just stopped buying PC's. Then, when Average Joe wants to buy a new PC, well... they're forced to change to either crappy Vista, or MacOSX (Linux isn't quite there yet for the average user). Suddenly the Mac doesn't seem that bad anymore... you'd have to re-learn everything with Vista anyway!

Yeah... you're right. Macs are cool...

pfft