Comments on: Apple Store Traffic Flat, But Sales Are Down

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:16:04 +0000

When I will walk around the malls, I’ll see one or two people in other stores, but when I get to the Apple store. It’s crowded. Sometimes it’s so crowded it’s hard to move around in there. Truly amazing. Even in this economic downturn it’s been like that.

By: joecab

joecab — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:34:25 +0000

Apple’s retail stores and the iTunes store serve the same purpose: to show you the eye candy that gets you to buy the real stuff like devices and hardware and peripherals. This is why in the grand scheme of things companywide, they probably aren’t as concerned as you may think if either one is profitable in and of itself.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:22:03 +0000

News that Steve Jobs was borne of woman drove sales down.

By: sfmitch

sfmitch — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:22:22 +0000

You are painting a completely misleading picture of Apple, Inc.

1. Apple sales in the December 2008 quarter (which is the Q1 2009) were the HIGHEST EVER

2. Apple sold 22.7 million iPods in the quarter – the MOST EVER

3. Apple sold 2.5 million Macs in the quarter – 9% MORE than in Q1 2008

4. Apple sold 4.36 million iPhones in the quarter – 88% MORE than in Q1 2008

5. Apple also had a record quarter with the iTunes store

6. The best part is that because of the way Apple accounts for iPhone sales. Apple actually had an additional $1.6 BILLION of revenue and $700 MILLION of net income.

7. Apple Retail had a revenue INCREASE of 2% – most EVER. Sure same store sales were down – times are tough, etc. But, think of how much distribution now exists for Apple products than even a year ago.

Do we really care that Apple is selling less at its’ own stores if it is selling more overall?

So, you can take your story of Apple imploding and save it for another day.

Ed, is this whole (falsely) negative spin on Apple, Inc. because they ‘lost’ your contacts??