Apple’s retail store network “continued its steady pace of growth last quarter, with its U.S.-based stores alone posting both higher revenue and Mac unit sales than that of the entire worldwide segment during the year-ago quarter,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“For the third fiscal quarter of 2007 ended June 30, Apple’s 164 U.S. retail stores combined for sales in excess of $715 million, or slightly above the revenue recorded for the entire Apple retail segment — including international stores — during the third fiscal quarter of last year,” Jade reports.
“Well-placed sources indicate that the segment’s rising revenue was driven not only by an increase in store count, but also significant growth amongst many of the company’s existing locations,” Jade reports.
In Q3 2007, “the 164 U.S.-based stores combined to sell more than 275,000 [Mac] systems [and] over 730,000 [iPods],” Jade reports.
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Wow.
Apple stores in the rest of the world can wait a bit then…
and all the PC trolls gotta ask themselves ..
Now WHY couldnt Gateway become this successful when they had their own retail outlets ?
Answer is quite simple ..
You can only sell crap to the public just so long ..
Eventually, the public catches on !
Quality sells quantity!
Good value sells mountains!!
The streets are littered with the dead corpses of the prognosticators who predicted Apple would be shuttering the last of its retail stores within 2 years of the opening of the first one.
Again, people without vision. People who think they were going to do the same tired formula that Gateway did.
Caring after sales & a favourable customer environment will make the mountain come to you!
That Is the Apple inc. Way!!
Unfortunately, crap sells quantity, too.
In the last year, five of my PC using friends and relatives have switched to using Macs and two more have stated the are sold on buying a Mac very soon. Most of them once asked me “why’s you buy a MAC?!!!” as though I was an oddball.
No more!
lets not forget the extra few hundred million called : iPhone
@ R, Not for very long!
Once you realise how expensive it is over time to keep replacing the crap! You never go back again…..
Have you heard of “Fools Economy”?
Once you wise up…………
Well–assuming this is true–if I were Steve Jobs, I’d be asking for the severed head of whoever it was that leaked this information.