According to Piper Jaffray, Apple has the best financial prospects of all the companies followed by the firm. Apple, Inc. has officially been added to the Alpha List. The Alpha List is a prestigious list of the companies in the best financial situations, and with the best outlook in the near future.

According to the analysts at Piper Jaffray who put Apple on the list, the decision to add them was three-fold.

Check out the reasons after the break.

BusinessWeek is reporting on analyst predictions for next year’s iPhone 3G numbers. One of our favorite analysts Gene Munster, from Piper Jaffray, sees a very optimistic future.

Many analysts expect Apple (AAPL) to sell around 11 million iPhone 3Gs in 2008 and another 25 million in 2009. But perhaps the most optimistic forecast is from Piper Jaffray (PJC) analyst Gene Munster, who expects the company to sell 13 million this year and 45 million next year.

BusinessWeek claims to have some information that points to Apple’s plans to build over 40 million iPhone 3Gs during the next 12 months. This is actually even more iPhone 3Gs than the optimistic Munster expects Apple to sell in that time frame, 52% more.

More iPhone rumors and predictions after the break.

At WWDC earlier this month, Steve Jobs has some developers step onstage to demo their iPhone 3G software. Apparently, this is just a tiny taste of what’s to come. According to a Mercury News report, the iPhone is creating its own economy of developers scrambling to get their software to the iPhone 3G. “I’m seeing more »

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, a WWDC attendee, decided to hang around after the keynote and survey a few developers about their work with the iPhone SDK.

One of the most interesting of Munster’s findings was the fact that a whopping 70% of developers interviewed said their apps will be free. Also, 50% of developers are making “Enterprise Apps,” with 15% using location based APIs, 20% writing video games and entertainment apps, and another 15% writing “Enterpirse-level apps.”

Read on for more info on his findings.

In a recent report, analysts from research firm Piper Jaffray showed optimism for Second Quarter ’08 iPod sales. They are predicting that recent sales results from First Quarter ’08 show Q2 sales to be in the 10.5-11 million range. This prediction may seem somewhat high, as previous Quarter sales results and other recent sales trends more »