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Has the iPhone increased sales for iMac and MB?

It's a fact that more people have been open to purchasing other apple products after purchasing an iphone. I would have never thought I would purchase an apple product 4 years ago...Man, how things have changed.
 
Not me, since I had the iMac first, but I know quite a few who it did convince to switch to a Mac.
 
It got me to switch. Although it was the iPod Touch that I had. I was originally thinking of getting a good gaming rig, but the iPod Touch convinced me to get a MacBook, and I was getting tired of Windows. I'm glad I switched.
 
Convinced me. I'd wanted one since they made the move to nextstep, particularly after the intel switch. Since i wanted to develop for iPhone, i finally had an excuse to buy a mac. Two years later, and I just bought a second mac for my wife. And after SL is released I'll be replacing 2 windows servers with a mac pro.
 
I think it has increased sales, people like how good the iphone is, and they also look into all of apple products.
 
It definately convinced me. I really liked the interface, and the way the OS functioned. I was also taken by Apples product presentation in general. Ive had friends on mac for a while, but until my first experience with Apple, I wasnt convinced.
 
I definitely switched from dells to apples after getting the iphone last summer. By September I ditched my XPS M170 and got my MacBook Pro. The operating system on the iphone convinced me I was wasting time with windows.
 
I forgot about this graph that they showed at WWDC. It's a little blurry, but you can read it. It really shows how much the iPhone and iPod Touch have encouraged people to switch.
 
Interesting...

I actually had a MBP before purchasing an iPhone. However, around Christmas time I purchased first gen iPhone for my girlfriend. I probably used and played with it more than her! :p
 
Sure it has. I can speak to this with personal experience. I was in the Apple store on Tues looking for the new iPhone, as were 80 other people. They had run out a couple of hours before. People were buying computers instead.

I even bought the spouse a new MBP 15" because I'm so impressed with the battery life.
 
Absolutely it has. The iPod did somewhat have a halo effect, but nowhere near as much as the iPhone has. I have a couple friends that bought iPods years ago and each has purchased at least 2 Macs since. With the iPhone, at the very least you now have developers buying Macs to develop the apps on (one of my co-workers has done this). I have at least 5 other co-workers that have bought iPhones and at least 3 of them now have Macs.
 
I used to be and ignarant apple hater untill i got an iphone now i have an imac, apple tv, and time capsule

up next is macbook and maybe ill even start to eat apples instead of oranges
 
It did it for me. I used call Apple "toys" and always told people to buy real computer not pretty toys.:D I was impressed with my iPhone 2G and bought MBP and 3GS. I like MBP+WinXP but not so much love for 3GS:(.
 
IBradMac said:
I actually had a MBP before purchasing an iPhone. However, around Christmas time I purchased first gen iPhone for my girlfriend. I probably used and played with it more than her! :p
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God, I love improper english. You played with the iPhone more than you played with her :p
 
I was eyeballin' the iPhone before the MBP but my tragic, tragic Dell death speed up the MBP purchase. But my iPhone purchase can be attributed to other Apple purchases. I have had a couple iPods here and there but this was the most 'recent' activity:

Thanksgiving 2008: Unibody 15" MacBook Pro (told myself I had to have it to pass finals ;) and it worked!)

Christmas Eve 2008: iPhone 3G 8GB

Christmas Day 2008: Time Capsule 1TB

March 2009: Apple TV 140GB

June 19th 2009: iPhone 3GS 32GB

Future: Whatever new products are released I am sure....
 
I see the iPhone as the 'gateway drug' of Apple. They show you how wonderful, smooth and stable OS X is running on the iPhone and pretty soon you find yourself thinking about a Mac.

I never would have considered a Mac before owning the iPhone.

Since getting my first iPhone 8 months ago I have purchased for myself, family and friends;

2 Mac Minis
1 iMac 4850
1 MBP 17"

As well as many of my friends getting an iPhone too.

I definitely see the iPhone as a major part of Apple strategy to shift the market and get them more users in the desktop and laptop space.
 
Not necessarily me getting an iPhone that made me want a Mac.

I got an iPhone, came to this website. This website made me want a Mac:p
 
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