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Has Apple's Mac Business Bottomed?
Has Apple's Mac Business Bottomed?
Apple's (AAPL) new Macs -- released last week -- mean March sales should be okay. But look out for ugly February numbers, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster warns in a note today. Next Monday, retail market research firm NPD Group will release its estimates for Apple's February Mac sales. They will ...
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Analyst: February Mac sales will be down 12 percent year-over-year
Macsimum News — ... MacBook Air, says NPD. On the bright (or at least brighter) side, Munster predicts that Apple’s Mac business will bounce back this month, thanks to the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro desktop updates. The analyst forecasts that March Mac sales will dip one percent year-over-year, as estimated by NPD. What’s more, Munster thinks this means Apple’s March quarter Mac shipments, per NPD, will drop six percent year-over-year, around the four year-over-year drop he extrapolated a month ago. Silicon Alley Insider has this to say about the report: “That is a sharp drop from a year ago, ...

Reports Indicate Enterprise Layoffs at Apple, But Context is Cloudy
The Mac Observer — ... some areas within the Enterprise group kicking butt, taking names, and recycling the old Windows machines on their way out the door. In that section, new people have been hired to help meet the demand. What all this leaves on the table, though, is whether or not Apple is being as forthcoming as it should about this event. The company has heretofore denied the layoffs occurred, despite several independent confirmations by the above-listed publications that it happened. In a column for Silicon Alley Insider , Dan Frommer asked if Apple was lying by denying, a sentiment addressed ...

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