Apple’s Bull Market: Where Are The Naysayer Bears?

Apple does it again with breakthrough revenue and earnings results for 2006.

More Macs, more iPods, more profits. Naysayers beware. You’re an endangered species.

It was just a year or so ago when media pundits and analysts said Apple was struggling; their projections for iPod sales showed flat or declining.

Others said the switch to Intel Macs caused slow downs in PPC orders. Even Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said, “So what?”

Today Apple poured it on with results for 2006 at record numbers:

The facts speak for themselves.

Apple’s 2006 earnings and unit sales information, Q1-Q4:

The only blemish on the whole announcement was Apple reiterating their restatement warning, though most analysts believe any restatement would be modest. The restatement probability is related to the so-called stock options scandal.

Where are the naysayers? Where’s the bandwagon of pessimistic Apple haters who were certain that Mac sales were going down or stagnating?

Where are the iPod critics who said Apple’s iPod sales were leveling off, even declining?

The bandwagon has stopped, crashing on a rough road, and everyone has gotten off and headed for the woods.

Apple is roaring into the holiday season with a brand new line of iPods, new Macs of every flavor, and every click that can click is clicking.

Competition from Microsoft’s Zune? Don’t hold your breath. Problems with movies at the iTunes Store? Hardly.

iTunes Store runs an 85-percent market share.

How about those expensive Apple Stores? Record revenue total, per store, per square foot—60-percent growth.

Is there a cloud in Apple’s silver lining? I can’t see it, can you?