“We touch on Apple’s remarkable story throughout every quarter, but earnings provides the chance to back up so much sizzle with a whole lot of steak, they put meat on the bone, show the fire beneath all that smoke, and give Macolytes the chance to stare down the non-believers,” Goldman writes. “And laugh.”

“Apple has captured a kind of perpetual motion in the market completely elusive to all others who have tried to match its performance,” Goldman writes. “Monday’s numbers should be a knock-out, but longer term, there simply is no better company in a better position than Apple.”

Goldman writes, “Consider that sales are growing, Apple has a cash war chest of $35 billion (more than Cisco, Microsoft, Google, GE, etc.) …Mac sales of 3 million units a quarter are the best in the company’s history, iPhone continues to soar. Heck, iPod is an incredible story even after all these years. And yet, Apple still has enormous global opportunities ahead in both Macs and smart phones. It borders on the mind-blowing.”

“Oh, and there’s that other little piece of hardware on the way,” Goldman writes. “Something about a tablet?”

Much more in the full article, including analysts’ expectations for Apple’s Q110 financial results, here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Mintz reports, “But the use of the Rolling Stones line in the invitation has quieted most proponents of this [last] scenario. It might just be standard Apple misdirection, but a person familiar with the situation told the AP there’s no Beatles-Apple deal… [As for the tablet], analysts including Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. both see a 2010 release as more likely.”

“CEO Jobs hasn’t presided over one of these pep-rally-style product launches since Apple gave its laptop line a light makeover last October. His lieutenants, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller, Apple’s COO and top marketing executive, have been holding their own,” Mintz reports. “But now that Jobs is back from his nearly six-month medical leave, fans are still holding their breath for an appearance from the maestro.”

More in the full article here.

The event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Calif., located in the same complex as the Moscone Center, site of Macworld Expo and Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). It will occur at 10:00 AM Pacific Time on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2009.

Apple offered no details about the event, though the e-mail invitation displays one of Apple’s trademark silhouette figures dancing with iPod in hand. The caption reads “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it,” an homage, perhaps, to The Rolling Stones’ 1974 classic “It’s only rock ‘n’ roll.”

Since 2005, Apple has used special events timed near the beginning of September to highlight changes to its music business. In 2008, the company introduced a new iPod nano, made changes to the iPod touch and pared the iPod classic to a single offering, and introduced iTunes 8. In years before that, the company has unveiled the iPod nano, refreshed other iPod offerings and announced changes to its iTunes Store offerings at similar events.

Speculation for what Apple has up its sleeve at next month’s event run the gamut from another major revision to iTunes to a significant refresh to the iPod touch, which has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s revenue stream in recent quarters. Some pundits also want Apple to introduce its long-rumored but as-yet-unannounced tablet device. Hope springs eternal.

Full Article: MacWorld

For the ipod we can expect new features to it, higher capacity, increase in price and of course the ipod with camera, but i think its not just the camera that apple would present, there would be more stuff with apple and cool services that they present.

And another thing will Steve Jobs be there? We just have to see and wait for things