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Despite Profitable Comeback, Challenges Lie Ahead for Apple Computer.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

| January 04, 1999 | Bray, Hiawatha | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 5 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Nearly two years after Apple Computer Inc. advertisements began imploring coales for its Macintosh computers, Apple has mounted a comeback that has astonished the industry. Its new iMac personal computer has become the best-selling desktop machine in America, boosting Apple's share of the market for the first time in years. Better yet, the company is making money again -- $309 million in fiscal 1998, which ended in September.

All of which means that this week's MacWorld, a gathering in San Francisco of Apple computer users, is the most upbeat in a long time. A crowd of about 600 responded yesterday with lusty cheers to the greeting from computer industry journalist David Pogue: "Welcome to the first MacWorld conference that nobody thinks will be the last MacWorld conference."

But despite the dramatic revival of Apple's…

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