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You just quoted an article of IDC predictions. Apple released its actual results on Thursday: Mac sales and revenue were both down 5% from last year. Mac sale
by ghostcluster 9y ago
You just quoted an article of IDC predictions. Apple released its actual results on Thursday:
Mac sales and revenue were both down 5% from last year.
Mac sales down ~200,000 units.
Q1-2018 numbers, reported 02 Feb 18: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-financial-results-3581769/ https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-financial-result...
- glhaynes 9y agoI was just trying to give some context beyond a single quarter. The highly-criticized devices have been out for a long time and have been good sellers. They've clearly got some work to do overall, though. I just don't think the Mac is in some historically-unique bad spot (not saying you said that), which one would surely think if they just went by blog posts.
- ntsplnkv2 9y agoCan you compare that to other PC manufacturers? Otherwise it's a meaningless number-we know desktop sales, esp at the super high end, are down overall.
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- sib 9y agoIt's important to note that Apple had 13 weeks in the quarter that they just reported on, while, in the year-before quarter, they had 14 weeks. This is a difference of just over 7%. That means that Apple sold more Macs per day (and generated more revenue per day) this year than in the year-ago quarter.
- rzzzt 9y agoI was puzzled by your comment, then did some searching: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/06/_14_week_quarters_financial_markets_get_confused.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/06/_14_week_quar...