At Citigroup’s 15th Annual Global Technology Conference, Apple chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, fielded the future product questions in Apple Style, without giving any detail. Few points that he did talk about were related to MobileMe, iPhone expansion and Apple’s plan to offer new products a reasonable margin.
Oppenheimer said that the company’s management regrets not delaying the MobileMe launch. He also said that iPhone expansion in various markets is going according to Apple’s plan and Apple wants to introduce the iPhone into China as soon as possible.
The most important statement of the conference was “We plan to keep offering products at a reasonable margin, but not so high to benefit our competitors.” He further added that Apple is planning to introduce new products at reduced margins to keep it competitors under pressure. Apple presently has 80 percent market share for consumer notebooks priced above $1,000.
Peter didn’t say anything about new products that Apple is working on but promised, “we’re going to rock” at next week’s Apple event. The understatement of the night was “We expect to sell more iPhones in September quarter than in any prior quarter.” Many analysts have estimated that Apple will sell more that twice the number of iPhones in September quarter than in any previous quarter.
One statement that we liked most was when asked about iPhones lack of voice-activated dialing; he said, “That’s the beauty of our software model. We have a team of people who are working on new innovations; can make them come out for current and new customers. Wouldn’t rule anything out….” One of the two features we think iPhone should get as soon as possible is voice-activated control.
[Via 9to5mac]