The bad news that I was but never finished. His is better anyway. The not-recommended TL;DR is: Even though CEO Tim Cook said there were plenty of reasons (5) for the decline of Mac growth, including iMac constraints, Mac sales for the year are heading toward “flat.” On declining Mac numbers: Cook: “If you look at the previous year, our Mac sales were about 5.2M. The difference is 1.1 iMac were down by 700k units Y-O-Y. There were limited weeks of ramping on these products (iMacs) during the quarter.” We left the quarter with significant constraints on iMacs.
- Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Mac Free
- Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Macbeth
- Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Mac
Our sales would have been significantly higher Our channel inventory was down by over 100K units at the beginning of the quarter. –Cook says market for PCs is weak “we sold 23 million iPads, we obviously could have sold more than this because we could not build enough iPad minis to come into a demand balance Im sure there was some cannibalization of Macs there.” If you look at our portables alone we were inline with IDC’s projections of market growth. While not making enough iMacs for Christmas shopping was a significant and uncharacteristic operational misstep, it doesn’t account for the significant drop in Mac sales overall year-over-year and even sequentially. IMacs and desktops in general have been a declining component of the Mac market as MacBooks take over the space, so even a significant drop in iMac sales wouldn’t account for a 20-percent drop year-over-year and sequentially. Apple also released new Mac Minis and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros in the quarter, and the rest of the Mac lineup (including the Mac Pro) was updated just a few months before the quarter began. Cook rationalized why Macs weren’t even flat and are “inline with IDC’s projections,” even though Macs have outgrown the market for something like 20 consecutive quarters previously.
Nov 1, 2018 - For the quarter, Apple posted revenue. “We're thrilled to report another record-breaking quarter that caps a tremendous fiscal 2018. I had a conversation this afternoon with my wife about where AAPL is heading. For a MacBook Pro or a new iPad, or a new Mac Mini is just throwing your money away. Another Mac record Strong laptop sales fueled a record quarter for Mac sales, the sixth time Apple has set a quarterly sales record in the the last seven quarters. Apple reported its second quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. 2018 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 14, 2018. Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all.
Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Mac Free
Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Macbeth
Without a major hardware change or drastic price cuts, it is hard to imagine Apple having another 5 million Mac quarter. It would seem that, like iPods a few years ago, Macs have peaked. Apple’s iPods were cannibalized by iPhones.
Apple Headed Toward Another Record-breaking Quarter For Mac
The good news is that Apple is cannibalizing its own Mac growth (as well as overall PC growth) with its own high-margin iPads—and lots of them. In fact, Macs now represent significantly less than 15 percent of the total of combined numbers (below and corresponding revenues).