Comments on: Estimates vs. actual sales: Contrary to Gartner, IDC claims U.S. Mac sales slump in Q312

By: G4Dualie

G4Dualie — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:39:28 +0000

Apple cares about every dollar it makes, period.

By: rjackb

rjackb — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:10:59 +0000

Say what you want about any of the IT research firms such as IDC and Gartner but they are not stupid. They have all sorts of ways to make their estimates (by monitoring channel sales, for one example).

By: Dave H

Dave H — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:47:48 +0000

Probably not to be honest. US Domestic is just one of many markets for Apple these days, just as the Mac is just one of many products.

By: mrfergus

mrfergus — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:37:07 +0000

IDC and Gartner are full of crap.

By: G4Dualie

G4Dualie — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:59:35 +0000

Who *gives* a shit what the US sales are?

Apple does, tard.

By: Ohnome

Ohnome — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:42:56 +0000

Well that’s one way to never be wrong.

By: Ohno

Ohno — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:41:23 +0000

Apple does not report U.S. Mac unit sales

Well… That’s one way to never be wrong.

By: His Shadow

His Shadow — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:20:43 +0000

Wait. IDC and Gartner keep releasing estimates for US sales only when the only real numbers are Apple’s numbers for worldwide sales?

Who *gives* a shit what the US sales are?

By: RePlay

RePlay — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:25:51 +0000

Nope, it’s the one with it’s own solar farm!

By: TheMacAdvocate

TheMacAdvocate — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:20:27 +0000

I think it’d be funny if Oppenheimer dropped a number for the U.S. sales at the conference call, just to highlight how fictitious the numbers generated by analysts are.

By: Bizlaw

Bizlaw — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:00:06 +0000

All of these estimates seem to be as accurate as political polls these days.

By: correctu

correctu — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:50:23 +0000

Apparently, from looking at MDN’s 2nd chart:

Gartner estimates + IDC estimates = Actual Sales

By: correctu

correctu — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:33:37 +0000

11 foot Macbook Air?!? Oh, that must be the one with the optional hot air balloon.

By: derss

derss — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:16:56 +0000

Both IDC and Gartner have Apple’s worldwide sales estimation — since globally Apple is not in the top five, the figures do not get into press-releases. How much IDC and Gartner are accurate or not could be only measured by comparing those worldwide estimations with Apple’s official result.

So we need somehow who has access to full IDC and Gartner reports before we could see which of the two firms is more accurate now.

By: Zmarc

Zmarc — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:51:34 +0000

Why do Gartner and IDC even bother?

By: brillliantsandwich

brillliantsandwich — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:48:10 +0000

I did my part… bought a 2012 11′ MacBook Air. Awesome! Bring on Mountain Lion!

By: tbone

tbone — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:36:05 +0000

One thing is four certain. The computers Apple sold this quarter are not the same ones that it sold last year. That is of course, unless they snuck into people’s homes and stole them in the middle of the night.