Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson
One of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians who was an avant garde recording artist. He ran a practice space called the Birdhouse for a few years in the late 1970s.
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth22 March 1929
CityMonroe, LA
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We feel very good about delivering solid profitability while reaching our goal of 4 weeks of channel inventory ahead of schedule.
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And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.
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Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.
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very optimistic for the strong momentum we have.
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There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,
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We continue to look toward the December quarter as our first opportunity for year-over-year (revenue) growth which we expect to turn into unit growth,
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We expect to catch up on the backlog of the G4 ... But we will have supply constraints for the iBook.
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We're delivering solid profitability while maintaining lean channel inventories in a weak economic environment, ... Our balance sheet remains very strong, with over $4.2 billion in cash, and we are targeting a slight sequential increase in revenues and earnings per share in the September quarter.
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We now expect that the slowdown in retail that everyone's experienced since the attack of Sept. 11 will result in our reporting a small loss for our retail stores for the December quarter rather than the break-even results we had previously expected,
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Some component supplies will be impacted, but we believe the situation will be resolved well in advance of the end of the next quarter,
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Since then, we have filled up this building pretty well.
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We're confident about Apple's future and believe this repurchase program is a good long-term investment for shareholders,
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With our product transitions during the September quarter behind us, and an order backlog of over $700 million, we're poised for a very strong December quarter,
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Strong demand for our professional products combined with superb operational efficiency resulted in very strong earnings. Apple finished the quarter with $3.6 billion in cash and short-term investments.