Mac sales rise 28 percent
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 19, 2008 at 1:30am
According to data from market research firm NPD, a slowing global economy had little impact on Apple’s computer business last month, as consumers willingly plunked down their cash for the company’s new MacBook offerings, helping to drive Mac sales up more than 25 percent year-over-year (as reported by AppleInsider).
Meanwhile, NPD data on iPod sales shows the players remain strong sellers despite the advent of the iPhone, which includes all of the functions of the iPod touch family.
In related news, a 2008 Needham report shows that after a decade of stagnation, Mac unit sales have almost tripled in the past three years. Needham says that the most significant barrier to switching from PC to Mac was the Mac computer’s inability to run Windows applications. The research forecasts that in the next 10 years, Mac unit sales will grow dramatically to almost 40 million units by 2017.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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