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Subject: Mystery Apple products hinted July 22nd 2008, 9:44 am |
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On multiple occasions during Apple’s earnings conference call yesterday, CFO Peter Oppenheimer cited a “future product transition” as one of the reasons the company expected somewhat lower gross margins for the September quarter.
That any Apple executive would hint at an imminent new product in a public forum is extraordinary. It means whatever is coming will make a big splash, though probably not of the magnitude of the iPhone.
But what is it? It’s likely that the mystery product or products – or as Oppenheimer put it, “state-of-the-art new products that our competitors just aren’t going to be able to match” – will involve a touch screen.
I believe it could be the long-rumored Mac tablet PC. In any case, Oppenheimer’s remarks about it affecting the September quarter tells us it will arrive soon. He also hinted at other products in the pipeline that might shave gross margins in 2009.
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