Yesterday, the anniversary of the Macintosh computer for the thirtieth time. Fits to Fortune magazine has published a sales statistics for the fiscal year 2013. From this it is, among other things, that the Mac no longer plays a major role as in the beginning of the success story of Apple: He has slipped to third place after the iPhone and iPad.
In fiscal year 2013, the revenue from the Mac business were approximately $ 21.5 billion, one-eighth of Apple's total revenue - so the estimate. For the 27 January is Apple's official balance sheet announced , then such predictions can definitive results are compared.
The reason for the declining importance are clearly the iOS devices mentioned. iPhone and iPad serve as a "mobile computer", and run the normal computers from the rank.Nevertheless, the expert consensus, according to Fortune an increase in sales compared to the same quarter fixed - so bad it is therefore not about Apple's PC business: Compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, sales were up 13 percent from 4.35 to 4.6 million Macs climbed.
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