“Apple is at the threshold of becoming the largest US-based technology company and may soon become the largest technology company in the world,” Eventide writes for Seeking Alpha.
“This post details the unit sales for the Apple iPhone, iPod and Macintosh personal computers over the most recent eleven fiscal quarters and iPad unit sales for the five fiscal quarters the product has been in commercial release,” Eventide explains. “Apple’s dynamic growth is fueled by three major product lines while the Apple iPod, once Apple’s flagship product line, slowly fades into history as the product that sparked the company’s renaissance and set the stage for what is now the Apple industrial era.”
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Eventide reports, “In Apple’s current fiscal year (FY 2011) ending in September and the fiscal year beginning at the end of that month, unit sales of the iPhone and iPad will generate more than two-thirds of the company’s reported revenue. Both of these products were introduced to the market within the past five years. The popularity of Apple’s iOS-based devices, including the Apple iPod touch, has masked the fact that the Macintosh line of personal computers has become a more than $20 billion global business and in FY 2012 close to 20 million Macintosh computers may be sold.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]