Analyst: iPhone sales up, Mac sales down
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 4, 2007 at 12:29pm
Research firm Piper Jaffray, in a note to clients, said that iPhone sales are way up, but Aple sales are down a bit. What’s more, according to the firm’s research, more than 10 percent of the iPhones sold at Apple retail stores during the month of September were to folks who planned to unlock them and resell them.
Analyst Gene Munster told clients that Piper Jaffray tracked iPhone, iPod and Mac sales in Apple stores across the U.S. After the Sept. 5 price cut of US$200, iPhone sales increased 56 percent at the retail stores.
Since his last round of checks in July and August, Munster said that Mac sales were down by some 39 percent (from an average of 153 Macs sold per store per day to 94). However, he says that’s to be expected since the back-to-school buying season had ended. The analyst still expects Apple to report Mac sales of approximately 2.0 million to 2.1 million for the financial quarter that ended in September.
When it comes to iPods, Munster estimate that nanos account for 39 percent of sales, iPod touches for 36 percent, shuffles 16 percent and the iPod classic, nine percent. Piper Jaffray thinks Apple will report sales of approximately 10.6 million units for the September quarter.
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