Mac sales still up, despite iPad release

you'd never know it looking at tuaw.

seriously its getting to the point where they should rename this site TUIW

The Unofficial Ios Weblog

Always nice to see the Mac sales increasing. The more traffic Apple generates in its stores, the more buzz it generates with its product launches, the more people who will be buying Mac computers, whether desktop or laptop. At least, that is how I hope things go for the company. I am assuming the company makes more money on Macs than on iPads, but if that changes, I hope it is simply because more iPads are sold, not because less Macs are sold.

I would think Macs would be selling well, given that it's the pre-school time of year and the deals Apple has: with the 2 rebates and the education discount, I just bought a 13" MBP, remote, printer and iPod touch all for the retail price of the MBP (before sales tax!).

I think the analysis of the iPod sales has been lost in translation. Everything portable that Apple makes includes all the functions of an iPod. iPhones, iPods and iPads all have a fully functional iPod within, and the sales figures of the "just an iPod" category is just as many dollars worth today as it was in the beginning. A bit more, actually.

iPods represent a smaller percentage of Apple's total revenue, but only because they didn't freeze their ideas after it was introduced.

What writers about Apple tend to miss is that they know what they're doing. After so many years of watching Microsoft dominance as they lurched from guess to guess, it's hard to wrap one's mind around the idea that a big tech company can actually address ergonomic needs without killing off previous ones.

Anybody can build a monkey wrench with a music player in it, but some people have the ability to say "that's a dumb idea." Apple has discovered that there are very good ideas out there that have not been fulfilled. And which do not exterminate other good ideas they produce.

Those who know iPad well enough should know iPad is not alternate device for laptop.

It annoys me every time people saying this, especially from Apple specialists, being bloggers or analyst, whatever. Simply stupid! And more if you suggest people to buy iPad instead of a laptop. It is forgivable though if those who say this are from Windows world and know nothing about Apple products.

i wonder if mp3 player sales are down overall. the only reason i still have a nano is for nike+. if the iPhone4 isn't too fragile from sweat and occasional drops in an armband, i would have one less device to sync before my run.

The real troubling thing about this story is that the always wrong analysts were taken seriously when they predicted that the iPad would result in decreased Mac sales. If some people have chosen buying an iPad over buying a new Mac, it's because the iPad is a new item. Consumers are always dazzled by new products.

It is an entirely different device thus little negative impact on Mac sales. In fact it may just be the opposite where iPad might actually be helping Mac sales.
I'm still surprised that Apple is moving 2+ million a month. That smacks of success even for a rev one device that is a bit limited.

"So it looks, according to the data so far, like Apple has done what it wanted to: successfully created a new kind of computer, something that sits in between the mobile functionality of the iPhone and the full OS of the MacBook."

Um yeah, it's actually the world's first personal computer as opposed to what were actually Workstations labelled as personal computers.

All we have had for the last 25 years are desktop and mobile Workstation class computers, initially they were a bit under featured compared to what was known as Workstations.