Apple sold 61.2 million iPhones during the quarter, up from 43.7 million a year earlier and a new March quarter record, while Mac sales were also strong with 4.56 million units sold, up from 4.1 million units in the year-ago quarter. iPad sales were down, however, falling to 12.6 million from 16.35 million.
Another insanely great quarter. Interesting tidbit: it seems like the post-PC world has hit a bit of a bump, because Apple is earning more profit from its PCs than from its iPads.
Even though I haven’t owned a mac since the early 90’s (Macintosh Performa 6200CD–WHAT!!!) I sometimes find myself browsing the Apple Store for a iMac. I could care less about the laptops/notebooks but there’s something cool about the iMac. And it’s really the platform that makes it so appealing because everything is so well tied together. Also the fluidity of it all. But once I see the price tag for what you get, it all comes to the rational: do I really want to pay so much for such mediocrity?
Perhaps. Another way to look at is that Apple sold just over 78 million computing devices in the last three months. Only 5.8% of those were in a traditional PC form factor.
Odd. Usually profits is all you care about.
One could also say that out of those 78 million computing devices 94.2% were phones. Of the remaining “traditional PC form factor” devices (computers and tablets) only about half of them are tablets now.
Exactly this. iPads are likely hurting because much of what you can do on one you can also do reasonably well on a larger screened iPhone. So people are feeling less of a need to buy an iPad when they can just have the computer and the iPhone. Especially as the computer (MacBook) becomes more and more portable and just about as convenient as the iPad.
Emphasis mine. It isn’t a Post PC world if you kept the PC.
Technically, with Apple at least, you can’t go Post PC even if you want to, not as long as “connect to PC/Mac and restore with iTunes” remains an option (often the only option) every time an OTA update friggin bricks your iDevice. Makes you wonder if the i in iOS stands for irony.
Edited 2015-04-28 13:37 UTC
Yes, it is. Steve Jobs quote is only misunderstood (by those who do not want to understand I guess).
It is not about the PC disappearing, it is about the PC not being the center of your digital world anymore, but a device like a smartphone, a tablet or a TV box.
What is happening in the wider world is that billions of people who don’t own, never will own and probably will never even use a PC are connecting to the internet. Africa is being transformed by the smart phone.
The PC figures big in tech culture (in the broadest sense) in the developed economies and for older people. For the emerging economies, and for quite a few younger people in the developed economies, PCs may never figure much in their use of computing technology, like the Africans are doing they will simply bypass the PC stage and go straight to the mobile device.
The really interesting question is what will the internet look like as another two billion people, who are more or less completely PC free, connect in the next few years. I don’t know if you have read much about the story of the smart phone in Africa but Google it, the story is truly amazing.
Corrected.
No, seriously, how do you stomach that in all those emerging markets it’s all Android?
(curiously you failed to mention it)
I’m not in the least surprised. An ironic realization hit me today: I could not submit my resume to Apple themselves, should I even want to, using their so-called post-pc devices without jumping through 3rd-party apps. All because iOS Safari doesn’t support file uploads other than photos. Post-pc my fat arse. Even a Chromebook can do that. In other words, the limitations of the so-called post-pc devices make applying for work difficult, even to work for the company that touts them as the future.
Edited 2015-04-27 23:25 UTC
Maybe it is a good way of weeding out the candidates who Apple should not waste their time with!
So people think: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
It would explain why Apple software sucks nowadays.
Hardly. Apple may want people who are willing to spend time and money on apps for getting the most basic things done as customers, but not as employees.
While I’ve no doubt it would be an effective method, somehow I doubt they were thinking about that when they decided Safari should only be able to upload photos.
iMac, Macbook, Macbook Air, MacMini, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro combined sell more than iPad Air and iPad mini in a Qtr. It’s like saying Tesla is doomed, GM, Ford, and Honda sold more cars combined than they did last quarter, without realizing that they Tesla is selling more EV’s than their next closest competitor. That about right?
The only people saying Apple is doomed are Apple bloggers claiming other people saying Apple is doomed.
Yeah…. Actually no.
There is a reason that people are making fun of the “Apple is doomed” meme on Apple blogs:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/death_knell
http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/ipad/ipaddeathwatch/
http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/iphone/iphonedeathwatch/
And this is just a sliver of very similar “opinion” that keeps flowing from high quality sites like Forbes and Bussiness Insider and a bunch of others who basically live on writing hit pieces on Apple and all of it’s products.
And I also think that you are perfectly aware of this.
Edited 2015-04-28 23:00 UTC