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Mac sales climb after launch of OS X Lion and new MacBook Airs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 23rd, 2011)

Apple's current quarterly earnings should receive a nice boost from brisk sales of Mac hardware says analysts. This summer increase can be attributed to the July introduction of OS X Lion and new MacBook Air and Mac mini models. The latest NPD report suggests Mac sales may climb 26% year over ...

Apple could ship up to 15 million MacBook Air and Pro units in 2011

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 21st, 2011)

While the PC industry struggles, Apple is holding strong with its sales of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. According to supply chain estimates, Apple received shipments of 400,000 to 500,000 MacBook Air units in June. This number is expected to hold steady during July and August now that a new ...

iPad held 85% market share in 2010 according to ABI Research

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 20th, 2011)

ABI Research's 2010 analysis of the media tablet market reveals the iPad grabbed a respectable 85 percent market share. Trailing far behind the iPad was the Samsung Galaxy Tab with an eight percent market share and the Archos Internet tablets with a mere two percent market share. There three ...

iPad 2 success will burst the bubble for competing tablet manufacturers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2011)

Analyst Mark Moskowitz of J.P. Morgan Research predicts the success of the iPad 2 will cause oversupply problems for competing tablet manufacturers. Moskowitz claims manufacturers looking to compete with the iPad 2 have extremely ambitious build plans that will hurt them in the long ...

iSuppli: Apple to sell 120 million iPads by 2012

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 19th, 2010)

Many analysts were disappointed when Apple announced 4.2 million iPads sold in Q4 during the conference call yesterday. The consensus -- or hope -- among many on Wall Street was a 5m+ iPad quarter. But if iSuppli's report today is any indication, the Wall Street boys have nothing to worry about ...

Analyst: Apple producing more iPads

by Mike Schramm (Sep 3rd, 2010)

Analyst Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley tells All Things D that she believes Apple is ramping up production on the iPad, aiming to build as many as three million a month by the end of this year. That would mean that the company could make 36 million iPads next year, which brings the total close to ...

Gene Munster: Apple could sell 6.2 million iPads in 2010

by Chris Rawson (Jun 1st, 2010)

Right after the iPad's announcement, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimated the device would sell between three and four million units in 2010. Now that two million iPads have been sold in less than 60 days, Munster has revised his estimates upward. He now believes Apple will sell 6.2 million ...

That $499 iPad only costs Apple $270; Wall Street analyst is elated

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Apple is well-known in the consumer electronics world for relatively large margins on products. According to a bill of materials (BOM) breakdown on the iPad recently performed by BroadPoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall, the iPad should be able to add a sizable chunk of money to Apple's bottom line. ...

First iPad sales estimates: four million this year, double that in 2011

by Chris Rawson (Jan 27th, 2010)

Even though the device won't be released for another two months, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has been quick to revise his sales estimates for the iPad. His former estimate of 1.9 million units sold in the first 12 months was based on an estimated average price tag of $600; now that we know the ...

Munster: Apple will sell more than 36 million iPhones worldwide in 2010

by Steven Sande (Jan 6th, 2010)

The wizard of tech on Wall Street, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, is bullish on AAPL. Not only does the senior research analyst (who looks nothing like our artistic portrait at right) project that the company will sell 36 million iPhones in 2010, but he believes that the number is conservative for ...

Apple expected to beat the Street in September quarter

by Steven Sande (Aug 26th, 2008)

We recently reported on Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster's expectations of phenomenal iPhone sales over the next year, and now he's back with more happy Apple news! As reported on Macsimum News, Munster looked at preliminary July sales results from NPD Group, did some extrapolation, and came up ...

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