Apple sold fewest Macs in any quarter since 2010 as nearly the entire lineup was outdated

“Apple on Tuesday reported that it sold 3.72 million Macs in its third quarter, which spanned April 1 through June 30, the fewest in any single quarter since it sold 3.47 million in the third quarter of 2010,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “It’s also the first time Apple has sold fewer than four million Macs in a quarter since the third quarter of 2013, a span of five years.”

“Apple reported sales of 4.29 million Macs in the same quarter a year ago, so this is a pretty significant 13 percent decline on a year-over-year basis,” Rossignol reports. “Mac revenue also dropped five percent over the year-ago quarter.”

“There are a number of possible explanations for the decline, including consumers increasingly shifting towards the iPhone and iPad,” Rossignol reports. “The bigger reason, however, may have been that nearly the entire Mac lineup was outdated last quarter. Beyond the iMac Pro, released four months before the quarter began, no other Mac had been updated since 2017 or earlier.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s treatment of the Mac was criminal mismanagement and anyone who claims otherwise isn’t qualified to run a lemonade stand.

Hopefully, the regrettable period where Apple forgot they had a Mac business (that, by the way, even at the depths of neglect just generated over half a billion dollars more than iPad ($589 million) is behind us and Q318 taught Apple’s upper management a valuable lesson.

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