Apple Q1 (FY 2013) Earnings release - OUT NOW!

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famousringo said:

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.

but ipads are way cheaper so if mac+ipad would be +-0, it would be a huge decline in revenue. i don't think you can put that so easy together, it surely is a factor but not that easy in my opinion.

not sure how revenue of software looks like for every sold mac or ipad but that is surely also a factor.