NPD: Strong Mac and iPod Sales in March Quarter So Far

[Angelchild]

23rd

this clearly means no MPB for a while
if they sell like cakes why change em?
i guess june at this point
damn !!!!

MBP will receive an update probably on 23rd feb.

It's math. From october 2006, Apple has updated MBP line exactly every 8 months .

10/2006
6/2007
2/2008
10/2008
6/2009

and now it's predestined to be 2/2010. SO I think 23rd is the date (or maybe 22nd). Anyway this is the month. Sure not june.

Seriously, do you think for real that Apple will mantain MacBook white with a more capient hdd than the entry level MBP even till june? nah..

 

[tjanuranus]

my favorite part about this thread is the negatives. Who the hell would push negative on this! macs and ipods selling way better than expected... negative?

 

[LagunaSol]

not general public, just apparently brainwashed Mac users...I swear the brainwash is starting to wear off though. If the new Vaio Z is actually available before the new MBP's are announced, 10+ years of Apple use is over. Damn all the software I'd have to toss...

Save the drama for your momma.

 

[Scottsdale]

This probably explains the delay to MBP/MBA updates... when Apple doesn't need to boost sales in a fiscal quarter, it simply doesn't force updates to its Mac products. Certainly the completely new iMacs with Core i5/i7 with 27" displays are keeping Mac sales strong... along with the updated plastic unibody MacBook and Mac mini.

I can also imagine a complete change to Apple's graphics strategy has caused a delay to MacBook Pro updates. Apple uses Nvidia 9400m GPU/chipset in all Macs (except Mac Pro). Whatever Apple chooses for low-end MBPs will probably be used across many Macs just as the 9400m was used across all except the Mac Pro.

 

[KingYaba]

my favorite part about this thread is the negatives. Who the hell would push negative on this! macs and ipods selling way better than expected... negative?

Those that feel the Macbook Pro line will not be refreshed soon due to growing sales. That's quite a negative when the Macbook Pro is already lagging behind when it comes to hardware.

 

[RaZaK]

Celebrate the right way, Uncle Steve

How about you release those new MBP's to keep those strong numbers growing???

 

[anthorumor]

Save the drama for your momma.

Or the "Im still waiting for the Annandale" thread!

This is good news for Apple shareholders and Apple offcourse. I bet most of those sales belong to the iPod Nano.

Forget the MBPs, they will be updated for sure. What I'd like to see updated is the iPod Classic but the way trends are, Apple is most likely going to kill off its hard drive based iPod in favour for the iPod touches.

 

[lilo777]

IPod sales being up is a big surprise!

Not really. How quickly people forget! Remember what the first quarter of 2009 felt like? Like apocalypse. I suspect that comparisons against last year's first quarter look very good for all manufacturers

 

[ShiftyPig]

Type NPD research into Google and it autocompletes as "NPD Research scam" - about all you need to know about this info.

It really is laughable that MR continually cites an organization that 1) has no access to real sales figures and 2) pays (or is supposed to pay) respondents for survey answers. Same organization that indirectly stated that Mac has a 25% share of the PC market.

Edit to add: forgot, NPD doesn't count direct sales either.

 

[Friscohoya]

And up and up my stock goes....

 

[dwman]

For all these statistics citing strong sales quarter after quarter, Macs don't seem to be making much of a dent in market share. Seems they've been stuck at around 8-10% for the last couple of years.

 

[s1m]

Well said, only reason for Blu-ray on Mac is to use something like RipIt to pirate it. I have two blu-ray one on a PS3 and the other a stand alone player and though it is nicer graphics, once I watch the movie its basically done.

I have yet to need one on any of my Mac's or PC's. Defeets the point to have blu-ray but watch a movie on a 15 inch monitor, haha.

That what my Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD is for.

I think BD also has some facility to burn discs to back up data without needing yet another external HDD.

Also BD has additional extras and online services which might be more easily accessed through an internet connected computer.

I don't think BD is the be all and end all but to say it is only useful for piracy is about as informed as saying that the internet is only useful for pr0n.

 

[LagunaSol]

For all these statistics citing strong sales quarter after quarter, Macs don't seem to be making much of a dent in market share. Seems they've been stuck at around 8-10% for the last couple of years.

It's possible to have strong sales while your market share remains static (or even drops) when people are buying $250 throwaway Windows netbooks by the dozens.

 

[gfiz]

It's possible to have strong sales while your market share remains static (or even drops) when people are buying $250 throwaway Windows netbooks by the dozens.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but market share is usually calculated by $$$, not units.

 

[LagunaSol]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but market share is usually calculated by $$$, not units.

Um, yeah, you're wrong.

 

[csimmons]

not general public, just apparently brainwashed Mac users...I swear the brainwash is starting to wear off though. If the new Vaio Z is actually available before the new MBP's are announced, 10+ years of Apple use is over. Damn all the software I'd have to toss...

Electronic penis envy is not healthy.

 

[lilo777]

For all these statistics citing strong sales quarter after quarter, Macs don't seem to be making much of a dent in market share. Seems they've been stuck at around 8-10% for the last couple of years.

Make it twenty

 

[gregorsamsa]

Why some negative votes for this? IMO, all seems good. The more sales the better. What's good for Apple is ultimately good for all Mac users.

 

[ravenvii]

Make it twenty

... Back in 2002, Apple's marketshare was only ~3-4%.

Methinks you need to re-take Mathematics 101.

 

[inkswamp]

Um, yeah, you're wrong.

I assume you're joking, but the fact is that market share can be expressed as either units sold or revenue. It just happens that the computer market traditionally gets expressed in terms of unit sales (which seems anachronistic to me.)

 

[LagunaSol]

I assume you're joking, but the fact is that market share can be expressed as either units sold or revenue. It just happens that the computer market traditionally gets expressed in terms of unit sales (which seems anachronistic to me.)

I wasn't joking, because the computer market traditionally gets expressed in terms of unit sales.

If it were expressed in dollars, Apple would be kicking butt and taking names over the Dells, HPs and Acers of the world.

Why some negative votes for this? IMO, all seems good. The more sales the better. What's good for Apple is ultimately good for all Mac users.

The Apple-hating MacRumors Troll Brigade hates it when Apple does well. Good news for Apple = bad news for them. When Apple sells a lot of iPhones, they rate it negatively and lament that Apple has abandoned the Mac market. Conversely, when Apple sells a lot of Macs, they...rate that negatively too.

 

[akm3]

I assume you're joking, but the fact is that market share can be expressed as either units sold or revenue. It just happens that the computer market traditionally gets expressed in terms of unit sales (which seems anachronistic to me.)

It makes perfect sense in a commodity market, which the PC industry is. That is why Apple, as a luxury brand among a commodity market, is so hard to pin down and compare.

 

[archipellago]

For all these statistics citing strong sales quarter after quarter, Macs don't seem to be making much of a dent in market share. Seems they've been stuck at around 8-10% for the last couple of years.

8-10%..??

worldwide?

they wish.

300m computers will be sold in 2010.

13m (maybe) of them will be macs...you do the math

 

[*LTD*]

The Apple-hating MacRumors Troll Brigade hates it when Apple does well. Good news for Apple = bad news for them. When Apple sells a lot of iPhones, they rate it negatively and lament that Apple has abandoned the Mac market. Conversely, when Apple sells a lot of Macs, they...rate that negatively too.

Envy and frustration is a hard road, Laguna.

 

[IlluminatedSage]

Please, will some of you stop trolling the whole "BLU RAY ON THE MAC THING". Blu Ray is so overrated. I have the ps3 and yeah the picture looks good but damn I'm not writing letters to Steve Jobs to see it on a Mac. If they do get it cool but most of us have lots of tech you know you have a blu ray player. So stop the moaning already.
Besides, have you vr played a blu ray in a vaio? Be happy if you can get about 45 minutes on a single charge.

oh please, i don't have a Vaio, i have a MBP, and it isn't trolling to keep up exposure on an issue Apple is purposefully avoiding.

anyway, maybe i'll be the decider about battery life on it myself, why? because when i am on the road... heck even on a plane... i have access to power. so i'll be grown up and fine about that. and i think your wrong on battery life, it would be more like 90-120 minutes battery on BD playback. Why should we give up valuable hard drive space on laptops, when we ought to be able to just insert a disc and hit playback? heck alot of people rent BD discs from netflix... why should we be left in the cold when Apple won't hear our cry for BD?