Asia becomes fastest-growing Mac market
Shanghai's new Apple Store (credit: myuibe)
Asia can’t get enough of Apple’s Macintosh. The company reported a 160% year-on-year jump in Asian Mac sales after selling a record-breaking 3.47 million computers in its third quarter ended June 26.
Korea and China were the fastest growing Asian markets for the Mac, rising by 184% and 144% respectively. Hong Kong Mac sales grew by nearly 100% while Mac sales globally rose by a third. Asia was Apple’s fastest growing market for Macs.
The Mac helped Apple release a blockbuster set of third quarter numbers, with USD3.25 billion in earnings for the period. Apple’s stock is up by more than 2% after its earnings beat Wall Street estimates, which were lowered because of ‘Antennagate’ surrounding iPhone 4.
Apple COO Tim Cook did a conference call yesterday that contained some interesting nuggets about how Asia consumes Apple products. Here’s a round-up from across the web:- US Mac unit sales were up 40% in the Americas compared to 71% in Asia [Apple Insider]
- Wall Street analysts expected Apple to sell 3.2 million Macs globally but the company sold 3.47 million [Thomson Reuters]
- Mac sales grew 160% in Asia-Pacific but rose 66% in Europe [Thomson Reuters]
- Cook calls Asian sales “phenomenal”, citing Mac sales unit sales growth in China (144%), Korea (184%) and Hong Kong (almost 100%). and believes the region still has plenty of growth left for the iPhone and iPad. [Mac Observer]
- 100 million iOS devices have been sold in total, with strong growth in Asia, Europe and Japan for the iPhone [Business Insider]
- iPad launches in nine more countries on July 23, including Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand. [Apple]
And here’s Apple’s PR release on its earnings.
Bonus: Check out Flickr user myuibe’s gallery of Apple’s new Shanghai store.
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