{"id":231478,"date":"2010-01-26T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:386739"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:13:00","slug":"mac-tablet-a-new-growth-engine-for-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231478","title":{"rendered":"Mac tablet a new growth engine for Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that investors have digested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/story.html?id=2484196\" >another record quarter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/markets\/company\/index.html?symbol=AAPL&amp;id=253929\" >Apple Inc.<\/a>, the focus shifts to the iPhone maker&#39;s scheduled event this Wednesday, when cross your fingers, a new tablet version of the Mac is introduced.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Given high expectations, near term valuation volatility around Apple&#39;s Jan 27 event may offer accumulation opportunities,&quot; said Mike Abramsky, analyst, RBC Capital Markets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the expected &quot;wow&quot; factor should the new tablet be introduced, Mr. Abramsky thinks investor sentiment will be driven by the new gadget&#39;s price point. A range between US$500 to US$700 represents the &quot;sweet spot.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He thinks the perceived scope of the tablet will also be an important driver, with success dependent on broad cooperation from disrupted content providers, including news, books, music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the tablet is considered a niche product, it implies sales of roughly $1-million units, A &quot;hit&quot; product, however, would see more than $10-million units sold per year. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A &quot;hit&quot; would could provide a possible new growth engine for Apple,&quot; said Mr. Abramsky. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=386739\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that investors have digested another record quarter from Apple Inc., the focus shifts to the iPhone maker&#39;s scheduled event this Wednesday, when cross your fingers, a new tablet version of the Mac is introduced. &quot;Given high expectations, near term valuation volatility around Apple&#39;s Jan 27 event may offer accumulation opportunities,&quot; said Mike Abramsky, analyst, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}