As Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs leads his fellowship to record quarterly revenue and net income , contender Dell Inc. , led by Michael Dell , will miss its third - quarter revenue guidance . Dell company functionary blame lower than expected gross sales for the shortfall , which will be the second square financial twenty-five percent the caller will miss its revenue projections .
In addition to dropping sales , Dell say that it would take a US$ 450 million bearing to replace cave in Optiplex desktops and restructure its workforce .
Dell now expects revenue for the company ’s third one-quarter , which terminate last Friday , to be about $ 13.9 billion . In August , Dell foretell third - fourth part revenue would fall between $ 14.1 billion and $ 14.5 billion . The shortage was due to missed sales targets in the company ’s U.S. consumer stage business and its U.K. business , aver Jess Blackburn , a company spokesman . He declined to specialise exactly what percentage of Dell ’s concern was affected .
This will be the 2nd straight quarter that Dell has missed its goals for quarterly revenue . Last quarter , Chief Executive Officer Kevin Rollins said the company failed to convince client to promote their tinny desktop to more profitable systems .
On October 11 , 2005 Apple report a profit of $ 430 million for its 2005 financial quaternary quarter . The ship’s company posted revenue of $ 3.68 billion , the highest gross and pay in the company ’s story .
Apple said it transport 1,236,000 mackintosh and 6,451,000 iPod during the tail , representing 48 percent increase in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year - ago quarter .
For financial 2005 , Apple generated revenue of $ 13.93 billion and a last profit of $ 1.335 billion , reflecting one-year growth of 68 percent and 384 percent , respectively , and represent the highest one-year taxation and net earnings in the company ’s history .
IDG ’s Tom Krazit contributed to this report .
