“Based on U.S. retail sales data released Monday afternoon by the NPD Group, Apple is on track to sell 2.7 to 2.8 million Macs and 9.5 to 10.5 million iPods in its fourth fiscal quarter, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Mac unit sales came in up 2% year over year in July, which according to Munster implies 3% to 7% growth for the quarter that ends in September — roughly in line with the Street’s expectation of 5%,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “‘With just one month of data,’ writes Munster, ‘it is way too early to make a call on the quarter given ~50% of Mac sales in the quarter typically happen in the month of Sept.’”
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “He adds that international sales are growing faster than domestic for both Macs and iPods, which is why he expects reported sales to be slightly higher than NPD’s numbers would suggest. He also notes that July 2008 was a particularly good month for the Mac, with unit sales up 43% over July ’07, so achieving 2% growth over that is no mean feat.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Apple shipped a total of 2.611 million Macs in Q408.
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