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Paul A. Chapel dies in a fire.]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Good stuff and hopefully a sign that the wort of the recession is over.]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
GJ, Apple. Suck it, haters.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Because there is some other internet out there that anything not an iPhone uses?

I think some people are believing the marketing they are hearing a little too much.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Wonderful. Brilliant. Genius.]]>Jul 21st 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Try and not to rub their noses into the dirt or they'll run home crying to their mamas that their item of preference is subpar in nearly every respect when compared to the iPhone. Who cares how many Pres or Nokia N97s are sold? It really doesn't matter because neither of their unit sales or number of apps amount to a hill of beans. Go Apple and make me some more money.]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
"Go Apple and make me some more money."

You truly are delusional.]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
As Maverick pointed out, nobody said the iPhone wouldn't sell we'll and everyone is entitled to their opinion on the phone. Just because you think it's best doesn't mean it is. Get your head out of your ass and stop being such a turd flinging moron.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
No one cares. If you do, then stop caring. It's a dam phone.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Everywhere I go, places that have Apple products, have tons.
Hell, they are still trying to sell those last year Shuffles.
In Mexico, a lot of Apple products being sold are sometimes up to two years old. Maybe they ship the overstock?]]>Jul 21st 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 22nd 2009 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 28th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
click the read link sometimes.

"Apple sold 2.6 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a four percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter."]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
2.6 million up 4%. Shows how well the microsoft ads are working. Heaven forbid what the sales would have been if the "Laptop Hunters" campaign hadn't aired.

In fact I would go so far as to suggest that the Laptop Hunters campaign is actually working in Apple's favour cementing in the minds of the watchers that Apple is actually the machine to aspire to rather than the cheap stuff the "real people" end up buying.

I wonder how Kevin Turner is feeling today? Perhaps the "call" from Apple legal was to tell them to stop running the commercials BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T WORKING.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Interesting that Apple didn't take this opportunity to deny making the call though.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
They have no reason to. The call was made because Microsoft continued to falsely advertise the price of the MacBook Pro in their ads. Microsoft then stopped running those specific ads. Kevin Turner's mischaracterization of the events and the sensationalist headlines by the likes of Engadget and other sites blew it way out of proportion.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/I can see Paul A. Chapel, Quix crawling out of their wormholes already]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
P.S. please don't drown in your Apple-hating tears tonight...]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/It's not clever, it's not funny, it just makes you look like a cock.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
i can see why apple is doing good, its because they have women wear an ipod for underwear]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
I thought "I'm a Mac" ads would crush PCs. Well, good luck with that. Hope you live long enough to witness it. LOL.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
I would say this is more true for the Apple market as most of the users just wanna be seen to own an Apple (power users pipe down I know you are out there as well). Although the would pull in a lot of current netbook owners they would see the sales of Macbook tank.]]>Jul 22nd 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
They sold 2.6 million macs, a 4% growth over this quarter last year, with mac portable shipments rising 13%. If I remember correctly, last year it was about 50-50 between portable and desktop. That means their desktop sales plummeted 17% over last year.

The average selling price for their 'mac laptop' went from $1,440 last year to $1,250 this year, a 14% drop in per unit price, which is likely cutting into their per unit revenue by about 20%.

iPod sales were down 7% compared to this time last year - and it appears they're double dipping to include the iPhone in those numbers.

"Music. 10.2 million iPods, down from 11 million year ago quarter. A few reasons: reduced channel inventory by over 400,000. Sell through declined by 4% year over year. How are we looking at this market? Three categories of pocket product: traditional MP3 players (shuffle, nano, classic), iPod touch, and iPhone."

Apple is a master in gaming the earnings call to get headlines like this.]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/
Again, read the statement (and the actual numbers), not just the coverage from websites.

The iPhone is not included in the iPod line. The small (7%) drop is understandable with a similar feature found on the higher-end product. When a customer buys a iphone, they often do not buy a ipod nano, shuffle, touch. ]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/apple-asks-what-recession-records-best-non-holiday-quarter-i/Jul 21st 2009 5:59PM