cnbc.com - 3/17/2009
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As the Mac faithful prepare for the new iPhone operating system updates to be announced later this morning (check here for the LiveBlog!), Apple investors have some new market research to invest. The NPD data about February Mac sales looks a little light, but it's nowhere near as bad as you ...
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NPD: February Mac sales look a little light; March expected to show rebound
MacDailyNews —
... and the growth is far more subdued but still pretty strong. It stands to reason in these cost-conscious days that shoppers are buying on price and not necessarily value, since Macs tend to outperform and out innovate their Windows counterparts and that's why they command the premium they do," Goldman writes. "Still, with rumors flying and now market research detailing the allure of net books, you gotta wonder whether Apple indeed is preparing a low cost Mac of its own." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Enough with the "netbooks," already. If the margins are there, ...
A Closer Look at Apple’s Mac Sales
The Mac Observer —
... on March 17th, 2009 at 1:45 PM NPD recently reported that Mac sales were down 16 percent in February. If that number holds for the entire quarter, what does the mean in terms of predicted revenue for Apple? The answer is surprising. Anyone who's prepared a complex spreadsheet knows that effects are seldom linear. And yet, when it comes to headline news and surface thinking, it seems that our brains always tend to think linear. So a drop by 16 percent sounds dramatic. Let's take a close look at Apple's numbers and see what's really happening. Apple's average selling price ...
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