by Stephen
Apple is doing quite well!
April 23, 2008 in Apple, Tech by Stephen
Looks like the folks in Cupertino are on the upswing.
Signs of a consumer slowdown abound in the United States, but Apple customers appear not to have noticed.
Buoyed by unusually strong Macintosh sales, the company grew notably faster than the rest of the computer market worldwide in the first three months of the year. Revenue increased 43 percent from the same period a year ago, the company reported. Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, characterized the quarter as the strongest in Apple’s history.
He attributed the growth to higher traffic in the company’s 181 stores in the United States. The company reported that it had 33.7 million visitors to its stores in the United States, up 57 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Mr. Jobs said that belied the gloom that was being expressed about the American economy.
“We’re not economists, so we don’t have any more insight than everyone else, but there were sure a lot of people in our stores last quarter,” Mr. Jobs said in an interview.
I’m not a Mac guy, but I was in an Apple store last month, and I gotta say those things are quite impressive. I can see why people are gobbling those things up and then coming back for seconds. I had written Apple off about 10 years ago or so, before the iMacs came out even, but of course I’ve been proven wrong since then.