Apple Mac in April - Better than expected sales

Apple Mac machines in April than the same period last year sales fell by nearly two percentage points, while the iPod product sales were down 9 percent, however, the rate of decline in the outside world than previously expected the situation better.

According to NPD data released Monday showed that, Mac machines in April than the monthly sales fell by 1.8% over the same period last year. Prior to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has predicted sales will decline 10%. However, he forecast, according to the latest data on Apple Mac machines in the second quarter sales will be 210-230 million units, which means that the sales of these products will decline 16 percent year-on-year -8%.

At the same time, NPD data also shows that iPod sales in April fell by 9% year-on-year. Gene Munster from this projecting the second quarter of iPod sales figures for the 950-1050 million. Despite the steady growth in recent years, Apple is not a piece of good news, but eased iPod sales this spring will be particularly concerned about bad.

Third-generation iPod shuffle for the iPod-to-market decline in sales has played a moderating role, the listing of this product in March to help tide over the difficult iPod in April. Nevertheless, Munster still warned that the 79 U.S. dollars this player could lead to iPod player average selling price declined.