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Apple Stock Soars on Earnings  
Apple Stock Soars on Earnings
Hollywood Backstage Staff Writer 
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 CUPERTINO, California

Apple's stock price surged again on the news that Apple Computer's sales have outperformed industry experts sales estimates. iPad sales in the U.S. are hot. In addition, iPhone sales in China have gone far beyond expectations. Apple's revenues are up 49 percent and their profits are up 90 percent.

Perhaps, Apple has finally toppled the Microsoft juggernaut which has dominated the computer industry since its inception.

The iPhone and iPad have launched Apple's earnings into the stratosphere, even beyond the experts predictions. The iPhone and iPad and the entire line of Apple Computers do not rely on Windows wretched operating system.

The brilliant CEO Steve Jobs has even unshackled the iPad and iPhone applications from the archaic tyranny of Adobe's misguided and buggy flash environment. Apple will not approve applications which use flash coding, however sneakily Adobe attempts to work that into their system. Apple developers are not going to risk months of development, only to be rejected because they were created in an Adobe flash environment. Besides, Apple's own development tools for the iApplications are exceptional and flawless. Adobe flash has been the source of crashes and bugs that Apple has rejected as a way of life.

Apple's market capitalization has reached 234 Billion Dollars and with the rapid stock price increase, will soon pass Microsoft as the largest computer maker in the world. This is good and right. Apple has always led the way in innovation. Microsoft has always led the way in sneaky underhanded manipulation.

Microsoft swiped the original operating system for the IBM PC and engineers reverse engineered the machine ic chip on the original IBM PC to make the operating system work independently from the IBM PC computer. As a result, the PC clone industry was born -- all running on the Windows operating system. The downside of this was that millions upon millions of users spent the next twenty years dealing with Microsoft's bizarre and illogical blue screen crashes, operating system window pop-ups, viruses, obsolete software, updates that made the computer not work, and error messages that made no sense. What a waste of humanity.

Apple's operating system on the other hand, is a dream fulfilled. Ever since OSX, which is based on UNIX, Apple has blown away Microsoft. Apple programs work out of the box, they install easily, drivers are accessible, the machine is rock solid, sophisticated, elegant and logical.

The iPad and iPhone are so easy to use, even a child or a grandmother can get the hang of it all very quickly. There are no traps or confusing operating system inspired garbage which Microsoft loves to heap upon users.

The iPad puts Microsoft to shame and deservedly so. All Microsoft was, was a monopoly on the operating system that ran most computers. With Google climbing alongside, Microsoft no longer has their evil empire to run amuck. They have been sued by governments. They are now being forced to play the game fairly, and that just doesn't give them any of the advantages they had in the past. They are finished as the disgusting dominating force in the computer industry.

Like the 1984 commercial, Apple has flung the hammer into the "blue screen of death."

Note to PC fan boys: Your days are numbered.

Juggernaut: A juggernaut is a term used to describe a literal or metaphorical force regarded as unstoppable. It is often applied to a large machine or collectively to a team or group of people working together, and often bears association with crushing or being physically destructive.

In this chart, you can see Apple in the orange line. If you bought Apple stock yesterday, you made money.

Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple sold 2.94 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 8.75 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 131 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 10.89 million iPods during the quarter, representing a one percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.