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Apple’s Macs and iPhones are flying off the shelves

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 · 12:46 pm · 13 Comments

“Mac retail sales in the U.S., tracked by NPD Group, are up around 26% year-over-year for the December quarter, according to analysis by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who published his findings in a note this morning,” Dan Frommer reports for The Business Insider.

“That’s higher than the Street’s expectations for 19% year-over-year growth,” Frommer reports.

“Munster [also] said he remains ‘confident’ in his estimate for 9.3 million iPhone shipments last quarter, above the Street at 9.1 million,” Frommer reports.

Full article here.

Marek Fuchs, TheStreet’s media critic, explains why Apple’s Mac growth numbers are bigger than many think (in what is one of the most annoying videos we’ve seen lately, regardless of the soundness of the points made):

Direct link to video here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Joe Architect" for the heads up.]

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13 Comments

NHL

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:51 pm · Reply

In related news, from Redmond, office chairs are flying of the roof.
Cascadians

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:57 pm · Reply

Apple just keeps getting better and better. I’ve purchased a lot of new Apple stuff since last summer. And I’ve used AppleCare a lot, had to call in for tech support and the service is excellent. The Store is excellent. Apple’s tutorials are excellent. It’s just a good experience all the way around. And I’m starting to be able to create, store and share unique content and it’s a blast, very useful, life has jumpstarted into many very good things.
NHL

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:59 pm · Reply

Good overall article, but I’ll disagree with this paragraph;

“After the recession knocked out the Mac’s growth story, it’s back on the rise, thanks to the awesome 27-inch iMacs and more affordable MacBook Pro.“

Okay, with the first point I’ll merely quibble. The recession only stopped Mac’s growth relative to Macs. Apple kept sales rolling along at high levels despite the recession, in contrast to Win-PC sales.

To the second point;
I don’t think that price was an issue with greater sales of the MBP.
I think this price obsession is more a reflection of the writer’s old-school economic analyses, where lower prices and higher volumes are viewed as positive, as opposed to Apple’s successful strategy of focusing on high quality items which might also happen to then have higher margins.
R2

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:01 pm · Reply

What about iPods, namely the iPod touch?

The touch will never get its due.
Artistica

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:06 pm · Reply

As a rural Wisconsin high school teacher Macs have been slow to penetrate the “Windows culture.” Five years ago there may have been “one or two” graduates (classes of about 170) purchasing Macs for college. Today that number has increased by ten. Even with the resistance of our “narrow-minded IT department” we now have a Mac Lab which includes sound boards (sound editing) and digital drawing pads (visual arts), film making and soon to be: Podcasting. I.T. just doesn’t get it, but the kids do!
Brilliant Sandwich

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:16 pm · Reply

Purchased a Quad-core iMac over Thanksgiving that has had all the negative screen issues documented here and on other sites. After 2 months on the market Apple has no fix and I have been offered a refund. Macs may be flying off the shelves, but how many are being returned or need repairs. Quality vs. Quantity.
chazroyal

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:20 pm · Reply

When my daughter started college 4 years ago, she was the only person in her dorm that she knew that had a Mac. Now, literally everyone she knows has switched from a PC to a Mac. Also, every single child of my friends that started college this past fall took a Mac with them – an amazing change in 4 years’ time!
Steve516

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:55 pm · Reply

I’m building an office for a customer that is nothing but Mac’s – he is fed up with spending time and money on virus and spyware protection, tech support phone calls, machine down time, etc.
AppleJack

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:03 pm · Reply

BS . . . sounds apt.

No really, I understand there have been problems with these new iMacs, . . . but Apple has the best record in the industry on handling this kind of problem. And maybe the reason we’re seeing so many complaints is because of the sheer volume of purchase of these new machines.
And it might also be appropriate to remind people about the so-called “fix” for these machines, that Apple doesn’t actually doesn’t design or build the screens or the hard drives.
I ordered my i7 the second day after it was offered. If you look back at the forums, you’ll see that everyone had a long wait for these to be delivered, most probably due to the unanticipated volume of the orders. . . . My machine machine was perfect, and remains so. My ten year-old iMac and my seven year-old G4 are both still fully functional; . . . they’re probably better than the day I received them. Apple OS upgrades have seen to that. So let’s try to have some sense of proportion before we start ragging on Apple.

On topic, it will be very interesting to see how many of these new Macs have sold since their introduction. I’m sure we’ll get an earful on the 27th.
TowerTone

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:23 pm · Reply

“Apple’s Macs and iPhones are flying off the shelves”

they are preloaded with OS X 10.7 “Kitty Hawk”…..
Steev

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 4:04 pm · Reply

What’s up with the seventies chandelier in the background.
DX

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:42 pm · Reply

Only a fanboy tragic could justify widespread hardware issues by saying “Well, Apple doesn’t make the components.” And it’s time people realized that the ‘fix’ didn’t actually work. If quality hasn’t declined how are so many customers getting four duds in a row, made weeks apart? Apple buys the components and puts them together… This fiasco is entirely their responsibility. And especially since they’ve blasted their hardware competition out of the water recently they have a bigger obligation than ever to cease their beta-testing on early adopters and do better testing.
Brilliant Sandwich

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:47 pm · Reply

The screens Apple purchased for the new iMac are bad. Mine was replaced numerous times and the yellow tinge issue never went away.