Peter Oppenheimer Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

More realistic guidance from Apple results in better analyst estimates

by Steven Sande (Apr 24th, 2013)

Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt put it the best in the subhead for his Apple Earnings Smackdown article this morning when he said "Apple management may have found a way to tame the wild beasts of Wall Street." What he was referring to was the fact that most Wall Street analysts were actually ...

Join us for a TUAW liveblog of the Apple Q2 2013 earnings call

by Steven Sande (Apr 23rd, 2013)

This afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will host Apple's Q2 2013 earnings call to discuss the company's financial fortunes for the quarter ending March 31, 2013. As always, TUAW is hosting a liveblog of the event, during which we'll be providing commentary on the actual ...

Apple's execs are not the best-paid

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2013)

A report earlier this week from Businessweek claimed Apple has four of the five highest-paid employees among Standard & Poor's 500 companies. The figures cited in this report included both base salary and vested stock packages, which has some people, like Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Apple 2.0, ...

Apple employs four of America's top five paid executives

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 15th, 2013)

During a 1998 profile in Fortune, Steve Jobs stressed how true innovation requires hiring the right people. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's ...

Q4 Earnings call turns to iPad philosophy

by Erica Sadun (Oct 25th, 2012)

Normally iPads debuted in March. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered some insight as to why during the Q4 earnings call. Apparently K-12 makes their purchases for the next school year around June. Higher education can and does buy later. Cook stated that he believed the newly refreshed iPad would ...

Apple VP Eddy Cue: Apple TV not likely in the near future

by Steven Sande (Aug 24th, 2012)

If you were hoping for a 60-inch Apple-branded HDTV for Christmas, get prepared to buy yourself another toy instead. Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves met Wednesday with Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Senior VP for Internet services and software, and today he published a company update ...

Apple's components spending increasing dramatically

by Steven Sande (Jul 31st, 2012)

Statements made by Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer during the recent 3Q 2012 earnings call are beginning to make sense in light of news from AllThingsD's John Paczkowski that shows that Apple's prepayments for inventory components are ramping up in a big way. The Apple ...

Apple hosting conference call on March 19 to discuss cash balance

by Steven Sande (Mar 18th, 2012)

Apple issued a press release today (Sunday, March 18) saying that CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will host a conference call bright and early on Monday, March 19 to "announce the outcome of the Company's discussions concerning its cash balance." The call should be of particular ...

A look at Apple's "all-star" executives

by Dana Franklin (May 9th, 2011)

Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Jony Ive, and Steve Jobs are big names at Apple. These top executives are known around the technology industry and around the world for their operational excellence, marketing know-how, design genius and powerful reality distortion fields. While these four men often get ...

The most interesting things from Apple's Q1 earnings call

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2011)

Perhaps, like me, you find most financial news and statistics boring. Perhaps, like me, when the AAPL liveblog came up yesterday, you decided it was probably time to go get some lunch instead. Fortunately, we have access to Business Insider, where they've compiled a quick and easy list of truly ...