“With the end of September comes the end of fiscal year 2009 for Apple. While the company won’t be releasing the numbers for another two weeks or so, consensus estimates from Wall Street for the fourth quarter will fill in the blanks, as Apple always beats estimates. For 2009, during what is arguably the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Apple will have its best year ever,” Charles Jade reports for The Apple Blog.
Also, “the Mac is about to have its best year ever,” Jade reports. “Fiscal year or calendar year, it just doesn’t matter, either way 2009 will be the first year the company sells 10 million Macs. Sales estimates for the quarter ending September 30 are for 2.7 million Macs, putting Apple just over that magical base-10 for the fiscal year. That will top last year’s record of 9.7 million Macs, which was also a new record, but then every year since 2006 has been a new record.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dale S.” for the heads up.]
Was this the cost prohibitng aspect of a Mac that Ballmer was talking about?
A very profitable rounding error.
Thank goodness for rounding errors!
Isn’t the Mac only a rounding error?
Oh, Apple will be a 10 this year.
Now if we could get Bo Derek to run by Steve Jobs with an Apple inspired bikini!
10 Million Mac Systems 2010 will be another record breaking year for Mac sales, I’d estimate that Apple will sell about 11 to 12 million Mac systems.
And remember, all the Macs sold in previous years – about 9 of them – are all probably still in use too.
Heading towards100m Mac users, plus another 300m iPod and iPhone users makes it a bit of a force, and less of a rounding error.
“set to have” — We have a word for that, don’t we? Yes we do!
I saw data somewhere recently (Appleinsider article?) that 25% of all laptops sold in the U.S. are Macs and 20% of all desktops are Macs.
so of course the stock price will go down
I’ll be rounding up my G4 to the refresh of the iMac as soon as that happens.
What was the number Phil Schiller stated at the last iPod intro, that there were now over 75M OS X devices out there? Or was it higher?
For everyone who owns any AAPL and everyone who likes the Mac and its superior OS – this is the best kind of news.
The future is all about better computing – and it always will be as phones and tunes playing gadgets come and go.
Oh, I meant to also say that my purchases account for 4 Macs in ’09 along with one iPhone from which the new has worn off. Meanwhile, the Macs are in constant use and doing magical things.
With sales numbers like that, I think it’s LONG overdue that the number of Mac users is put well above the FUD-lian myth of 25 million we’ve heard batted around for years.YEARS.
Apple has sold more than 25 million in the past 3 years alone. I would at least double, if not triple the number of total number based on that.
Macs stay in service FAR longer and are sold second-hand or given away to friends and family members. Those numbers are ignored completely, although it’s not like you can actually count them.
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I have a Classic, SE, and SE FDHD that still boot, so you can count those too…
The quarter ended Saturday. Apple fiscal quarters end on the last Saturday of the month, not the end of the month. Earning report is Oct 19.
@NCG598
Listen Mr. Tri, I am not aware of ANYONE that age that I want to see running in a bikini. The bounce will put an eye out. Across the room. Behind a chair.
My son has three working G5s in his basement office (shared with his wife) and has not bought a Mac since grabbing one of the last B&W;G3s! Two of the G5s are duals, don’t know about the third – the slowest clock-speed of the three and the one designated as the “server”.
I have a quad-core, my wife a dual-core, and we share a late-model single-core iBook. We don’t do things half-heartedly in this family!