New US sales data from the NPD Group show that Apple’s Mac sales have increased 20 percent year over year, which is inline with what is required to meet analyst expectations of 3.6 million Mac sales in the March quarter.
The growth is slightly below the 22 percent growth that was predicted but analyst Gene Munster did note that Apple had seen increased international growth of the Mac platform. Furthermore the now near inevitable launch of updated MacBook’s this week will likely give the Mac sales a boost for the final month in the March quarter.
Also noteworthy is that US iPod sales were down 10 percent since the previous January. Munster believes that iPod sales will be between 9.8 and 10.3 million for the March quarter, which would, be a 5 to 10 percent drop compared to the 2010 March quarter.
Going back to the Mac sales, the MacBook Air has been quite a hit amongst consumers with strong demand for the product; Munster believes that it had been holding Mac sales up whilst the higher range MacBook Pro’s sat dormant without an update since April 2010.
[Via AppleInsider]
