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Two 'Apple numbers' stories January 2014

While everyone is looking back, the analysts look forward to Monday’s Mac numbers

Ben Lovejoy Jan 24 2014 - 6:00 am PT

While there’s plenty of looking back going on today, Fortune has gathered together analyst forecasts of the Mac numbers we can expect Apple to reveal at its earnings call on Monday. This follows earlier forecasts for iPhone and iPad.

The average prediction is for 13 percent year-on-year growth, predicting that Apple sold 4.6 million Macs in the final quarter of 2013 (Apple’s fiscal Q1). This is slap bang in the middle of the growth predictions for iPads (10 percent) and iPhones (16 percent) …
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How badly Microsoft missed the mobile ship: 70 percent of Windows users own an Apple product

Ben Lovejoy Jan 8 2014 - 7:04 am PT

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If ever there was a simple visual to illustrate just how slow Microsoft was to wake up to the shift into mobile, it’s this one: a full 70 percent of Windows users also own at least one Apple product.

While there will be some joint Windows/OS X users in there, the majority of them will be people with Windows PCs and either an iPhone, iPad or iPod.

Via Business Insider