Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders
Thursday, 19 October 2006
Yesterday Apple announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2006, which included the following tidbits:
- the most Macs ever sold in a single fiscal quarter (1.6 million)
- the most Macs ever sold in a fiscal year (5.3 million)
- strong quarterly profits ($546 million)
- high gross margins (29.2 percent)
Two days ago, Gartner “analysts” Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders issued a report recommending that Apple abandon the computer hardware business and license Mac OS X to Dell.