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 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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Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,
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We still have a couple thousand people split between hardware and software. When you look back at the people that originally created the operating system, it was a small team. We've done creative things at Apple typically in small teams.
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We are currently re-evaluating our plans going forward, and will provide lower growth targets for next quarter and the next fiscal year when we announce our final results on Oct. 18,
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Apple is committed to making the investment to gain market share and grow the company,
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Apple has been cleaning up the way it does business and that's good, but ultimately we need to begin growing this business. We need to make sure we have competitive cost structures so we can grow.
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I prefer to wait until we complete the quarter.
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In light of the lower results anticipated for the December quarter, we now expect revenue for fiscal 2001 to be in the $6 billion to $6.5 billion range,
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In light of September's disappointing sales and higher-than-planned ending channel inventories, we are resetting our revenue estimates for the December quarter to about $1.6 billion and are targeting a slight profit,
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It's really a teaching gallery. I think it's important that faith stories be told.
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The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter,
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The consumer market is pretty soft. We are seeing things similar to what our competitors are.