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Re: Earnings math (and more)

Becca <rebecca.gor...@gmail.com>

20 Mil ipods in Q1 would not be unreasonable (since it is holiday
period and look at sales for other quarters), and would still represent
incredible earnings on iPods alone.  If this statistic is correct, I
don't see how Apple could manage to have earnings under $1 this
quarter, what with PC growth and all.

Has anyone tried to work with the statistic, 'Half our sales last
quarter were to people who had never owned Macs?'

Sounds like sales growth of about 50% to me - unless Mac owners have
stopped buying.  Am I missing something here?

anblick wrote:
> If Apple sold 80 million iPods before the Christmas quarter, then the
> Christmas quarter sales were less than 20 million.  In the keynote
> address, he said that they would ship the 100 millionth iPod this year.