“Today, Apple collects 44% of its sales from its home United States market,” Eric Bleeker reports for The Motley Fool. “Five years ago, Apple collected a far larger 59% of sales from the United Sates. As revenues climbed from about $14 billion in fiscal 2005 to $64 billion in the past year, overseas sales led the charge.”
“The Americas are still Apple’s largest market in terms of profit, though they beat the European market (which, interestingly, also includes the Middle East and Africa) by only a slim amount,” Bleeker reports.
“Growth rates continue to soar in Apple’s Asia-Pacific region, and it’s not unimaginable for that area to constitute the company’s largest market in the next half-decade — or sooner,” Bleeker reports.
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[Attribution: Fortune. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Anal ists – Wake up and smell the coffee.
Since the greatest growth is is in Asia, waking up and smelling the tea might be a more appropriate comment.
Tea – the world’s most popular beverage.
The momentum will continue for Asia .
Expect sales in the western world to stagnate or drop.
Apple should concentrate in Asia and make deal now in China.
Google is not favored.
But the problem lies when Apple grow to big and politics step in. As an American company it will tested for it’s ” patriotism” and ” freedom” like Google and Microsoft were .
If Apple makes the wrong move it could mean a huge market lost.
Meanwhile Microsoft…. hmmm… Windows is being stolen and installed on almost every Dell box in China. So.. uh, yea, good news bad news kinda thing… 😛
The increase is wholly attributable to the Singapore Army buying up the world’s supply of iPads to use as target practice by their recruits.
every time i see one of these reports i wonder why japan, of all the countries in the world, is reported separately.
You don’t have to go back too many years to find a time in which Japan was the manufacturing giant in that area, closely followed by…no one.
“…interestingly, also includes the Middle East and Africa…”
Bleeker, look up EMEA. It is a standard term in business.
Per Wikipedia:
“Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations…”