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“The NPD Group released new data Monday that showed Apple tracking slightly ahead of Wall Street’s expectations of 3.7 million Macs for the September quarter, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster,” AppleInsider reports. “The U.S. sales data implies Mac unit growth of between 21 percent and 24 percent from the same three-month span a year ago.
AppleInsider reports, “The figures are based on Mac sales in July and August, the first two months of the September quarter. The data suggests that Apple is on pace to have yet another record breaking quarter for Mac sales. The previous best came in the June quarter, when the company sold 3.47 million Macs.”
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Holy F****ing Cow
Can anyone remember when Apple was struggling to sell 1MM macs per quarter? That was back around 2002 or so.
The Apple juggernaught is marching on.
Apple has cake and eats it too… iPad is stealing away share from the overall PC market, particularly in the “netbook” (cheap laptop) segment. But… Mac sales continue to break unit sales records.
And that new iPod touch is going to be a HUGE hit, despite not getting as much attention as iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
No resting on laurels here.
Stay worried.
They are seeing the success, and they are not stupid.
If you thing the game is over you better be careful, it isn’t.. Money buys talent and the competition can buy Apple’s talent. Just don’t gloat is all I say.
@DogGone, at just under 1 million/quarter I started buying shares. With the iPod I knew there was a bright future, but I never would have guessed they’d have four product lines selling 4 million units per quarter (is Apple TV the fifth?).
@disposableidentity: I think there is no question that Apple TV will be the fifth. It is priced right and it will evolve into a must-have product (if it isn’t already).
@Disposable – I did the same thing. Unfortunately I sold the shares when they increased by 50% just before a quarterly result. Right after that they skyrocketed. I eventually bought the same number of shares at several multiples in price. I’ve basically decided not to sell the share until I retire. Hopefully the price will be up to a $1000 by then.
@ Cowboy – even I’m going to buy an AppleTV and I’m cheap. The price is certainly right.
@DogGone
I remember. I worked at one of the first Apple stores for about 4 years. We would do a count at the end of the day. Some days we sold 3 or 4. I remember some days selling 1. If we sold 10-12 on a weekday that was a good day.
We’d shoot for 20 on weekends but usually come up short.
Now it’s more like a drive thru. I still know people who work at stores and they say it’s ridiculous the numbers that are being pushed through now.
I also remember when the iPod first came out. The goal was to sell one every 5 minutes. We liked the iPod, but we laughed at that ambition.
Now, I bet they do sell one every 5 minutes if not quicker.
This to my mind is THE most important sales figure. People can dismiss the iPad sales as a novelty or as replacing a tired fad (netbooks). But selling desktops and laptops in increasing numbers along side of increasing i{Pad, Phone, Pod} sales proves that these numbers are not due to a quirk or gimmick.
People are choosing Apple products across the board, including the products that are direct competitors of PCs–Mac desktops and laptops.
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To celebrate I’d like to see them bring back the “switch” ad campaign with updated celebrities. Ricky Gervais being on the list, maybe Arnold?
Hmm… You’re right. Apple’s talented employees are in danger of getting bought by the competition! Or at least they will be just as soon as Steve Jobs decides to stop paying them. And that’s really likely, isn’t it? I think it is. We should definitely be worried.
Thanks for the wakeup call.
…Anyway, it just dawned on me that I’ve never really put all the quarters together to figure out how many Macs are being sold annually. The number should be somewhere around 12 million, correct?
That means Mac sales have been on par with, if not better than, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 sales. They can’t be too far off from the Wii, either.
So in otherwords, Macs have become seriously popular.
And yet, they barely garner a fraction of the media coverage that the three game consoles do.
And people say there’s bias against Apple in the world of tech journalism? Hah! Ridiculous.
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Finally some Mac news on “Mac”dailynews!
So, with “Mac unit growth of between 21 percent and 24 percent” are the talking heads still thinking the iPads will cannibalize the Mac sales? Clueless Idiots!
One of the BIG reasons some people are switching is because they are NOT SWITCHING! Sound Odd, read on.
If you have had it with flakey laptop hardware that is slow &/or expensive from Dell/HP, etc. and you want or need ROCK SOLID performance year after year for your mandatory Windows apps, your only choice is Apple.
Yeah, I could buy a 17″ Dell M6500, but that will set me back $4-6000+, and I’m still not sure I’ll get what I want, vs $3k or so for the MBPro 17″.
The MacBookPro will run Windows 7 as fast as I’ve seen on the PCs, PLUS, I get to do most of my work on the Mac side with all those benefits.
More capability, more lifespan, easier use AND less cost.
If you haven’t read The Tipping Point, do it now. The fun is about to begin.
I wonder how many PCs Dell sold Q3 FY10….