Mac sales are up 35% since May, which just goes to show you that the advent of a bunch of mobile products doesn't mean that Apple has fallen far from the tree. After all, computers are what they've always been about.
Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, showed the NPD domestic retail data, which theorizes that Apple will sell between 3.1 million and 3.2 million Macs in June if this pattern continues. Apple could also have a year-over-year Mac unit growth of between 19 percent and 23 percent. "This is the second data point that suggests Apple is not seeing much cannibalization in its Mac business (from the iPad)," Munster saod.
The latest data also shows that iPod sales have gone down 13 percent every year, though international sales are still going strong.
Munster adds that "We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal," he said. "Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size)."
Via AppleInsider
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