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famousringo on 23 January 2013
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man-bear-pig said:
famousringo said:
The professional analysts seem to have pretty much nailed it.

YoY unit changes:

iPhone growth 30%
iPad growth 50%
Mac sales declined by 20%(!)
iPod sales who cares.

Worth noting that last year's quarter had an extra week, so adjust these numbers up by 8% for a more accurate comparison.


Poor mac sales....I guess smartphones and tablets really are killing the desktop/laptop industry. 

There are those (even a few professional analysts) who argue that the correct way to view this is not that Mac sales declined, but that iPad + Mac sales increased by 30%. In fact, if Ballmer is right and tablets are PCs, Apple is now the largest PC manufacturer in the world by any measure.



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