Apple Plans to Grow to $10 Billion

mattmcal writes "Fred Anderson, CFO of Apple, this week outlined Apple's strategy for returning to its former self as a $10 billion company. He cited portability, digital lifestyle, and music as the three pimary drivers of this new strategy. Anderson announced last month that he plans to retire June 1 of this year."

iPod

[valkraider]

$5 billion of that will be from iPod replacement batteries...

[obDisclaimer: I own a 1stG iPod and a 2ndG iPod - batteries still as good as new. But the headphones......
And of course, they would get to that $10 billion sooner if they would release a G5 laptop.
I can personally guarantee them to get $3k closer when they do...]

Grammer Nazi

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't take long for the Gammer Nazi to rear it's ugly head. Its a sign of there low esteem.

10G$

[Smartcowboy]

If they wait long enough, inflation alone will bring them to their objective :P

Re:Amazing new thing: iMusic

[valkraider]

Yay! It's the "PCs are better cause they have floppy drives" argument. After lunch I bet you'll hit us with the "PCs have multiple mouse buttons" whammy and we'll all put our Macs up on eBay and head to DELL.com for a *real* machine, with a full-on serial port too I bet! Rippin!

Re:It is the only thing

[Anonymous Coward]

They lack viruses, worms, BSoDs, ...

Re:There is no problem

[BitGeek]

My screen failed when I used it to hammer stakes for my tent on a camping trip.

Imagine how dissapointed I was when I couldn't use the iPod for the rest of the trip!

Now I hear you can't easily replace the battery when it runs out of charge?

Amazing people put up with this product!

(Please note the sarcasm.)

Re:Apple can never die

[cosmo7]

Last time they almost did, Microsoft bailed them out.

And then they found the hook in the car door handle, proving that the story was true.

Re:Grammer Nazi

[pknoll]

Don't you mean:

It doesn't take long for the Grammar Nazi to rear its ugly head. It's a sign of their low esteem.

=)

Re:Current earnings?

[PrintError]

Any idea of what Apple's current earnings are right now?

More than I make.

Re:Margins to end?

[cilix]

Uberblogger Stephen Den Beste has a...

Do you think he would find this description depressing? I can't think of anything more disappointing than uberness wasted on blogging.

Re:What a KLUDGE!

[Anonymous Coward]

iPods don't kill people, I kill people!

Once they hit $10B...

[SensitiveMale]

maybe they can lose the 'beleaguered' moniker.

Re:hopefully by increasing volume not margins

[Endive4Ever]

Everything is invented at Apple first. Therefore you can remain confident that if something were to be invented, Apple would include it in your shiney new Apple system. Since you'd have to wait until later for some scurrilous copy-cat company to produce a version of it for the non-Apple market, you'd already have it on your Shiny New Mac.

Or something to that effect.

Re:This should make one group extremely happy....

[zbrimhall]

If the receptionist is too afraid of the Dock to do her job, she's fired.

Ack! It's bouncing! Help!