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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 21:01 UTC

Apple sold 1.1 million iPhones during its fourth quarter, the company said in its results statement on Monday. This brought total sales of the iPhone to 1.39 million since its launch and pushed the company's revenue to USD 6.22m (GBP 3.04m) for the quarter. The good news was not solely to do with the iPhone, however, as the company also reported shipping 2.1 million Mac computers, representing 34 percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2006. Apple 'exceeded the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000', the company said in the statement. Additionally, News.com tries to look beyond the marketing.

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RE: Half of the sales are to first time buyers...

by Tyr. on Wed 24th Oct 2007 06:19 UTC in reply to "Half of the sales are to first time buyers..."

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2005-07-06

and this isn't news? Sorry, but a million former PC users switching to OS X is news. Those people have friends. They can influence their future choices.

Looks like a lot of those switchers are students : http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/cba56d2d8545c3b1818...

Which is good news because they are more likely to be affluent and influential in the future.

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RE[2]: Half of the sales are to first time buyers...

by Erunno on Wed 24th Oct 2007 11:11 in reply to "RE: Half of the sales are to first time buyers..."

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2007-06-22

I wonder how most of these studens can afford a MacBook Pro (and yes, I'm jealous).

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RE[3]: Half of the sales are to first time buyers...

by tryphcycle on Wed 24th Oct 2007 17:12 in reply to "RE[2]: Half of the sales are to first time buyers..."

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2006-02-16

"I wonder how most of these studens can afford a MacBook Pro (and yes, I'm jealous)."

cus, um... maybe macs are not all that expensive?!?!?

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RE[3]: Half of the sales are to first time buyers...

by bryanv on Wed 24th Oct 2007 18:44 in reply to "RE[2]: Half of the sales are to first time buyers..."

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2005-08-26

Because like almost everyone else in the US, they're in debt past their eyeballs!

Seriously. I have a friend that was dumb enough to take out a loan so they could go buy a PowerBook a few years back.

Now he's stuck with a 12" G4 aluminum laptop that he's still making payments on.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Our society encourages spending beyond our ability.

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