The (real) numbers

Apple released its quarter numbers today and as opposed to analyst's estimates, these ones are real. Apple sold 270,000 in the quarter but those numbers are not the most impressive. The company suggested it will have sold 1 million iPhones by the end of the current quarter. It took seven quarters for the iPod to reach that number. Revenues were up almost a quarter and earnings almost three quarters. Apple sold almost 10 million iPods in the quarter and almost 2 million Macintoshes (or a 33% increase). The iPod sales were 21% higher year over year. All of those numbers seem to suggest that some of the "analysts" that yesterday were yakking about big declines were more than a bit off the mark.