2008: Apple’s 10 Million Mac Year?
by John Paczkowski
Posted on August 25, 2008 at 3:21 AM PT
The third quarter hasn’t been an easy one for Apple from a public relations standpoint. But from a financial one it’s been a resounding success. Despite MobileMe’s failure to live up to Apple’s standards, voice and data reception issues plaguing the iPhone 3G and reports of iPod Nanos sparking like Roman candles, Apple’s third quarter Mac sales numbers are expected to be impressive and largely unaffected by any sort of developing iPhone 3G halo … defect, if you will. In fact, they’re expected to be record-breaking. RBC analyst Mike Abramsky predicts that “massive back-to-school Mac sales” in excess of three million will see Apple (AAPL) reporting year-over-year growth of 44 percent for the three-month period ending September. And if it does, 2008 is going to be a very good year for the company. Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macs in Q1 2008 and 2,289,000 in Q2. If it ships the 3.04 million Abramsky predicts for Q3 and a similar number in Q4, 2008 may well end up being Apple’s 10 million Mac year.
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Wrong image John.
Posted by Dave Barnes at August 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pmA better one is the one of Jerry Seinfeld in a “Think Different” advert.
I expect apple to do better than Google when Google drops their Android phone
http://www.ShawnDrewry.com
Posted by Shawn Drewry at August 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 amI think it brings up a bigger issue – what part of the blogosphere is just about noise and raising page views?
I am a typical user and I have MobileMe & .Mac pretty much since it came out – in the last two months, I’ve experienced no real problems. I know that Apple has given me three free months and that’s nice but other than one time when I checked, email was down – it was back up 10 minutes later and I have sync and push working – maybe I don’t get 1,000 emails every hour and have to check my calendar every 2 minutes but it was nice, I updated a contact info at work and next time I checked my phone, it was there – nice. None of my ipods have caught fire and while I’ve had a first lock-up on my 3G phone, I reset it and everything was fine … compared to what features and usefulness, 1 lockup after all the apps I loaded, push email, mobileme … it’s not perfect in a technical measure but overall, no compliants. So not everyone who uses most of Apple’ services or products have much to complain about and yes, I bought a new laptop a few weeks ago – strange that only people who blog and need page views are having problems? What an odd coincidence.
Posted by joe belkin at August 25th, 2008 at 6:52 pm