“Apple’s Mac was the surprise hit during this past quarterly earnings — record setting sales and revenue for the Mac line as the platform approaches quarterly revenue nearly equaling that of Apple’s entire annual earnings a bit more than a decade ago,” Anthony Frausto-Robledo reports for Architosh.
“In a remarkable story, Apple sold a million more Macs this quarter than the year ago quarter, reaching a quarter record of 5.5 million units and revenues of $6.6 billion. Ten years ago Apple’s total yearly revenue, which was already including its sensational iPod music player, was $8.2 billion,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “It’s important to put that in perspective but today Apple’s Mac business is so strong it nearly accomplishes in one quarter of the year what Apple was doing as a total business a little more than a decade ago.”
Frausto-Robledo reports, “Apple’s Mac sales are so strong the company not only sold more Macs than any quarter in its history—going back to the very beginning in 1984—but it earned the best performing market share since 1995, a peak period for Apple during the PowerPC years and the promise of the AIM Alliance with IBM and Motorola.”
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