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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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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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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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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There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,
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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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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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what we believe will continue to be a tough economic environment.
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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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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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I prefer to wait until we complete the quarter.
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I don't think we have any evidence that it is an industry-wide slowdown,