MacDailyNews Take: Munster is not an “Apple booster.” He’s an analyst who’s been bullish on the company for a long time. In other words: Munster has been right for a long time and, looking at the numbers, remains so to this day.
Elmer-DeWitt continues, “He points to two trends in particular. Mac unit sales are up. An average of 39% year over year for the first two months of the March quarter, which according to Munster translates into sales of somewhere between 2.8 and 2.9 million Macs for the full quarter. The Street, he says, is looking for Mac sales to be up only about 22%. [Also], iPod unit sales are up. After a series of 16 consecutive monthly declines, iPod sales are up 7% year over year for the last two months, suggesting total iPod sales of 9 to 10 million for the March quarter. The consensus is closer to 9 million.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
But we haven’t heard from Shaw Wu…?
We need to increase funding for math education — these rounding errors are getting out of hand.
… or my mother
KeepHopeAlive,
I thought his name was Whaw Shu.
“We need to increase funding for math education — these rounding errors are getting out of hand.”
Classic post!
Impressive numbers considering the MBP, Pro and Air are in dire need of refreshes.
@ Stephan,
“Impressive numbers considering the MBP, Pro and Air are in dire need of refreshes.”
So am I.
Those Macs soon to ship pre-loaded with iSearch™.
Apple is pretty much self-boosting, I’d say.
Build a better product and people will come. Apple has learned this and now Ford is learning this as well. There is no way that an HP or Dell PC can equal the brand experience of owning a Mac and working on OS X. However I am a bit concerned that OS X is in serious need of an update. Mail is woefully outdated and does not integrate well with address book, Safari needs better integration with plug ins and Apple needs to integrate social media into a LOT more apps. But with all this OS X is still miles and miles ahead of anything Windows
“But we haven’t heard from Shaw Wu” or anyone with a middle initial of ‘X’
We haven’t heard from the three stooges yet either. Maybe they are collaborating so that their stupidity will be 3x greater.
Interesting that Mr. Glue-DeWitless feels the need to call Munster an “Apple booster”. Perhaps he’s just one of the very few analysts out there actually earning his paycheck by analyzing things accurately?
@Gabriel
True. I’m glad MDN called De-Witt on that. It’s amazing how little journalists pay attention to the words they use.
Speaking of Apple Mail: Who else is bugged with the search component in Mail. It could be a lot smarter. For instance: if I am in my INBOX and a type a name in the search box, Mail ought to know that 99 out of 100 time I want to search the “FROM” field. Conversely, if I’m in the SENT box, Mail should know that my searches are going to normally be for the “TO” field and default to that. Mail almost never is preselected for the most obvious search choices and it bugs me. I’ve written to Apple to suggest this as a way to polish the app, but hasn’t happened yet.
@kirkgray
“We need to increase funding for math education — these rounding errors are getting out of hand.”
Math education grants here:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
This is great news to those of us who hope trends like this will continue – it gives hope that Apple hasn’t turned itself into a phone and gadget company.
The future is serious personal computing – not hobbies.
“Apple needs to integrate social media into a LOT more apps.”
Agreed. I think Apple should do something like LinkedIn (but better) and integrate it right into Address Book.
With tens of millions of users, it would be as big as LinkedIn from the get go. Built into Address Book, I’d actually use it.
Great news but I’d also like to see world sales as well. Also I’d also like to see a comparison with overall market sales of other major manufacturers as well. Stand alone figures are just a bit too incomplete to give an accurate overall analysis.
But we haven’t heard from Zune Tang
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Munster has been wrong on Apple many times, especially with too optimistic iPhone forecasts.