Even though I may have been off during the past few days of the Christmas holidays, it's quite apparent that Apple has been any thing but. In fact, it is now believed that 2009 was one its best, if not the very best Christmas that the Cupertino giant has ever recorded.
This, in part, is due to the sale of an estimated 11 million plus iPhones during past three-month period alone!
Wow, now if that's not enough to make the competition sit up and take notice, well, then they must all be asleep or even worse - dead! Sales have been so hot, in fact, that BroadpoinAmTech analyst Brian Marshall recently advised his clients that Apple's stock was now a "must-own technology bellwether," and his well-above-consensus was that as many as 11.3 million 'Jesus' phones may have shipped over the past three-month December period.
Impressive, I tell you, impressive indeed!
Its not only the iPhone that has been hot this season either, because even the Magic Mouse did its part by doubling its share of the market over the past eight weeks as well. NPD Group sales data shows, that for the first time ever, Apple captured over 10 percent of the market for the month of November.
So far, not even the highly anticipated roll-out of Windows 7 did much to slow down Apple's banner year and, in actual fact, in the corporate world at least it's believed that the sales of Mac laptops is set to increase! This is based on IT spending surveys conducted by ChangeWave who stated:
"To date, Windows 7 does not appear to be hurting Apple’s corporate Mac sales," ........ "Rather, planned Mac buying has hit a new high in the latest survey."
To get a better idea of just how well Apple did this Christmas season, all you need to do is look at the iPod Touch which reported an astounding increase in downloads of over 1,000 percent this Christmas! Truly, that is a hell-of-a-lot more than I would have ever dreamed or expected, but it's true none-the-less - a whopping 1,000 bloody percent increase! Now that's what I call an increase by any stretch of the imagination!
No matter how you look at it, slice or dice it, the numbers all add up to Apple having a one dandy of a good year - a very, very good year indeed! Sales for Macs, both desktops and laptops, as well iPod Touch's, iPhone's, and sales in the APP STORE and iTunes are all up dramatically, and all of this in spite of all of the gloom and doom in the economy!
So, can Apple match or even succeed its 2009 banner year?
Well, I'm not a prophet or anything, but there is this little thing of an upcoming tablet that if it is as good as some say it is, well then Apple could easily find itself utterly blowing 2009 completely out of the water!
And that's my 2 cents 4 this Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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