"Apple raced by Wall Street expectations for its third-quarter revenues and profits, mainly on sales of its Mac computers and iPod music players. The iPhone added only $5m (£2.4m) to the top line as it was in stores for only 30 hours before the company's quarter closed on June 30," reports Guardian Unlimited.
Apple shipped a record number of 1.764m computers, beating the previous company record for quarterly Mac shipments by over 150,000. That number was more than 33% more than last year. In total, computers and related services represented 60% of Apple's third-quarter revenues.
Apple shipped 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 21% growth year-on-year, and accounting for $1.57bn in revenue. The company said it still held more than 70% of the music player market.
This means the Mac has grown to 2.9% of the worldwide PC market, on Gartner figures, or 3.0% on IDCs. This puts it behind Toshiba (3.9%/4.1%), which came 5th in the latest Top Five with 2.4m PCs sold in the quarter.
