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Apple Still Seeing Strong Mac Sales Growth Amid Easing iMac Constraints
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today issued a new research report sharing data from research firm NPD covering Apple's U.S. Mac sales for the January-February timeframe, revealing that Apple's sales are currently up 14% year-over-year. The performance is down somewhat from the 31% growth seen for January alone, but remains very solid as Apple's iMac shortages appear to have eased.
On the downside, NPD's data shows a return to Munster's expectations for the iPod, with the two-month timeframe seeing sales down 16% year-over-year compared to Munster's projections for a 17% decline. iPod sales had been up 3% in January.
While strong Mac sales are a good sign for Apple, the increasing dominance of the iPhone and iPad in the company's product portfolio means that strong Mac sales have less of an impact on Apple's overall financial performance. In the most recent quarter, Macs accounted for just 10% of Apple's revenue, compared to 20% for the iPad and a dominant 56% for the iPhone.
We have analyzed domestic NPD retail data for the months of January and February which suggests Mac sales were up 14% y/y through the first two months of the March quarter. As we have previously discussed, we believe the Y/Y improvement is driven by Apple beginning to improve supply of iMacs as the company noted the product was constrained in the December quarter. CEO Tim Cook noted that iMac sales were down 700k units y/y in December (we note iMac sales are likely far less impacted by iPad, thus the vast majority of the y/y unit decline in December was likely supply).Despite the strong performance, Munster is maintaining his estimate of an overall 5% decline in worldwide Mac sales for the quarter, even though Apple's worldwide numbers have frequently outperformed the U.S. data gathered by NPD.
On the downside, NPD's data shows a return to Munster's expectations for the iPod, with the two-month timeframe seeing sales down 16% year-over-year compared to Munster's projections for a 17% decline. iPod sales had been up 3% in January.
While strong Mac sales are a good sign for Apple, the increasing dominance of the iPhone and iPad in the company's product portfolio means that strong Mac sales have less of an impact on Apple's overall financial performance. In the most recent quarter, Macs accounted for just 10% of Apple's revenue, compared to 20% for the iPad and a dominant 56% for the iPhone.
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25 months ago
Stop sales immediately! THX will sue you!!
Stupid iMac is so thin who would buy it?!
No Mac Pro? Apple will meet its demise!
Stupid iMac is so thin who would buy it?!
No Mac Pro? Apple will meet its demise!
25 months ago
AH, but 14% growth isn't good enough for the lemmings of Wall Street. Never mind the collapsing economy and the economic miracle that Apple is. They are not delivering 150% increases quarter after quarter. Whaaaa!
/snark off
/snark off
25 months ago
With Mac at only 10% of revenue and PC sales declining, it might be time for the Mac-Midi expandable, single chip 4 core i7 Mac. And a stackable external enclosure. If all they do is cannibalize PC sales, it would be a winner. As you know all Macs run Windows!
Blade MacPro too.
We have long since needed a Mac that could replace all the utility purposes commodity PC's are installed into. Premium price and quality okay! TCOO is very low. It might need a parallel and serial port option! Okay if it immediately converts to the internal USB/PCIe bus. :D
Rocketman
Blade MacPro too.
We have long since needed a Mac that could replace all the utility purposes commodity PC's are installed into. Premium price and quality okay! TCOO is very low. It might need a parallel and serial port option! Okay if it immediately converts to the internal USB/PCIe bus. :D
Rocketman
25 months ago
Sure it does.
The high end iMac is about half as much as the current Mac Pro... and it's almost on par with the Mac Pro from 4 years ago. The gap will be widened significantly once the new Haswell Mac Pros are released. Now please troll elsewhere.
25 months ago
Awesome. No matter what people say about iOS being dull or iPhone not innovating enough, the Mac is kicking ass comparing to windows.
25 months ago
The little skinny retina notebooks have better benchmarks than old big clunk mac pro for most meaningful parameters.
Do the math.
:rolleyes:
My MacPro performs over twice as fast as a top spec-ed iMac or RMBP... Over twice as fast! Do the math yourself little boy...
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In a few years will just have ipad or iphone that connects to external display and keyboard and will kick current Mac Pro's a$$
And with GPU-like computing and next generation Xeon CPU's, a Mac Pro would keep the performance threshold to a next generation mobile device, performing realtime raytracing, multilayered 4k stereo video at 48 fps and sophisticated fluid simulations. Technology development does not stop at the low-end.
25 months ago
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The high end iMac is about half as much as the current Mac Pro... and it's almost on par with the Mac Pro from 4 years ago. The gap will be widened significantly once the new Haswell Mac Pros are released. Now please troll elsewhere.
iChrist is just an annoying troll. My 12-core MacPro renders a geekbench score well above 27 000 btw. Running 96GB ram, and CPU's clocked at 3.33 Ghz, 512 GB SSD and GTX580 3GB.
A tower is for different needs than a laptop. Laptops are good writing machines and field tools. Not a nr.1 workstation.
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