alleyinsider.com - 12/16/2008
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A few more data points out of research firm NPD Group's report of Apple's (AAPL) November U.S. retail sales: Growth didn't just hit a wall last month -- Apple's sales shrank , and the company lost market share to rivals. Desktop sales were especially bad.
Specifically, Apple's November retail ...
apple.com - 12/16/2008
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apple.com —
CUPERTINO, California December 16, 2008 Apple today announced
that this year is the last year the company...
will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote ...
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Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
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computerworld.com - 12/16/2008
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computerworld.com —
December 16, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc. will introduce
two netbooks at the MacWorld Conference and Expo next...
month that will be tied to the company's App Store, as is its iPhone , an analyst said today. "I don't have any inside information," said ...
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Apple will unveil netbooks next month, says analyst
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Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... about two-thirds Macs sold, and will probably make up for the desktop shortfall. What’s unclear is December demand. You can chalk up the November decline as an anomaly citing all the reasons above. The results so far suggest that Mac sales will grow this holiday quarter versus last year. Given October’s surge, December could turn out weak and Apple could still finish the quarter ahead, but it would telegraph greater difficulties heading into the 2009 calendar year. Additionally, as Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider points out , NPD sales data doesn’t account for enterprise ...
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