Apple sets records in sales of Macs and iPhones this quarter
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 22:18 IST
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Bangalore: In the quarter that ended September 30, Apple sold 3.05 million Macs worldwide, which pointed an increase of 442,000 over the corresponding quarter in 2008. The company sold more Macs and iPhones last quarter than in any of the other three-month period in the company's history. "It was a spectacular quarter," said Ezra Gottheil, an Analyst with Technology Business Research. "It's as if the recession never happened to Apple." According to Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's Chief Financial Officer, the company's sales have outpaced the industry average for 19 out of the last 20 quarters. It has set an iPhone sales record, moving to about 7.4 million units of the smartphone in the last three months. Apple will also start selling the iPhone in China, the world's largest mobile phone market, later this month, said Oppenheimer. As reported by the Computerworld, "Sales of Mac portables were up by 35 percent year-over-year. This was a blow-up quarter," said Tim Cook, Apple's Chief Operating Officer. In July, August and September, Apple sold 2.3 million Mac notebooks and only 787,000 desktops, posting a year-over-year gain in the former of 35 percent and a year-over-year decline of 16 percent in the latter. Two research firms IDC and Gartner pegged Apple's U.S. sales for the third calendar quarter at 11.8 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively. However, overall, Apple's revenues jumped about 25 percent for the quarter compared with the same period in 2008, based not only on better Mac sales, but also on the soaring sales of iPhones. Sales of the iPhone, for instance, were up by 7 percent year-over-year for the quarter in units, but iPhone revenues leaped about 185 percent.

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