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Kind of a tangent, but was this bit about iPods being a bigger business than the Mac ever true? > Once upon a time, Apple was the iPod company. iPods were a mu
by lastofthemojito 5y ago
Kind of a tangent, but was this bit about iPods being a bigger business than the Mac ever true?
> Once upon a time, Apple was the iPod company. iPods were a much bigger business than the Mac, and they also made Apple a dominant force in the music industry.
I Googled "peak iPod" and saw Q4 2007 listed as the peak for iPod sales. Apple's Q4 2007 results list $1.619 billion in iPod revenue and $3.103 billion in Mac revenue. There is another $601 million in "other music related products and services" but added to the iPod revenue that still doesn't equal the amount of money the Mac was bringing in (and the Mac was likely responsible for almost all of Apple's peripheral, software and service revenue).
- dwighttk 5y ago2006 iPods and Macs were both around 40% of Apple revenue 2007 iPhone launched and absorbed a bunch of iPod sales so I think your search was giving you just past the peak.
- CrazyStat 5y agoQ4 2007 (real calendar) is actually Q1 2008 (October-December 2007) by Apple's fiscal calendar. They reported $3.997 billion in iPod revenue that quarter, compared to about $3.5 billion for Macs. iPods always did well in the 1st quarter as that captured all the Christmas gift sales.
- nolok 5y agoWhich means that annually, Macs were still ahead by a large amount at iPod peak