“Whether that trajectory slowed or accelerated in the Christmas quarter — usually Apple’s strongest — is one of the questions that will be answered definitively next Tuesday, when the company reports its fiscal Q1 2011 earnings,” P.E.D. reports. “Meanwhile, we’ve polled three dozen analysts for their Mac unit sales predictions.”
P.E.D. reports, “There was, as usual, a sizable gap between the most optimistic estimate (4.49 million by Apple Finance Board’s Alexis Cabot) and the most pessimistic (3.6 million from UBS’s Maynard Um).”
Full article, with a chart of the breakdown between Mac desktop and notebook unit sales over the past three years, here.
quality sells
but garner and idc both said less than 2 million! I dont get their numbers…
Doom for Apple is ever closer.
Wall Street was modeling 5 million Macs for holiday quarter. Announcement on earnings of only 4.2 million Macs being sold will send Apple shares plunging into the $250 range. Mac sales will have shown to be stolen by XBox 360/Kinect bundle sales. Look for Microsoft shares to skyrocket. Happy New Year, Apple longs.
Those were measuring U.S. Mac sales. The 4+ million is worldwide sales.
Looks like ZuneTang’s mentally challenged brother Ballmer’s Boyz has decided to chime in.
(and yes I know Zune is a deliberate troll).
UBS’s Maynard Um is unadequate.
Yep, ZT’s the pet troll. Ballmer’s Boyz has no style, just like M$.
@Ballmer’s Boyz
The Xbox360 and Kinect are loss leaders. Microsoft funnel millions in to the Xbox 360 franchise and haven’t made a dime profit.
I hope M$ sold lots of consoles
If a flea farts in the forest, do the trees care?
Nobody was modeling 5 million for the quarter. Nice try Ballmer.
Ah… what a change…
Back in the dark days many people were saying, “If only Apple could sell 1 million per quarter [aka 4 million per YEAR] then Apple will survive.”
What a change. What a change.