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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