iOS devices hit 65 percent of Apple sales
updated 01:00 pm EST, Fri January 21, 2011
Mac worth just 20 percent, stats show
iOS devices now account for approximately 65 percent of Apple's sales, says Asymco's Horace Dediu. He remarks that together, just the iPhone and the iPad generated about $15 billion in revenue during the company's fiscal first quarter. The iPod touch is believed to have made the company roughly $2.3 billion.
Conversely, Macs accounted for just 20 percent of sales. Only 3 percent -- $786 million -- could be attributed to Mac software, including both Mac OS X Snow Leopard and programs like Aperture. iOS apps are estimated to have factored in about half of iTunes sales, or $600 million, a little over 2 percent of total revenue.
Dediu nevertheless suggests that Mac OS was directly responsible for 90 percent of Apple sales. The number is possible, he implies, because iOS has its roots in Mac OS X. The ratio "speaks volumes not only for the importance of software to Apple but for the cohesion of an extensible, flexible architecture that allows it to inhabit a portfolio spanning from a music player and an enterprise server," he writes.
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iOS kills?
So my big question is why iPodNN chose a filename like "ioskillschoice" for the chart graphic?