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Adrenalinemax
Lap Dancers
Brothers of Tangra
#1 - 2012-01-25 00:44:58 UTC
Apple retail rises 59 percent over Q1 2011


Coming alongside the formal announcement, Apple has published a detailed breakdown of its Q1 2012 financial results. The Americas and Japan saw the biggest regional surges in revenue, with the former up 92 percent year-over-year to $17.714 billion, and Japan up 148 percent to $3.55 billion. Europe was up 55 percent to $11.256 billion, while the Asia-Pacific region rose 54 percent to $7.697 billion, helped partly by a 58 percent surge in Mac sales to 814,000. Worldwide retail revenue grew 59 percent to sit at $6.116 billion.

In terms of products, MacBook sales continued to dominate desktop sales, with the former rising 28 percent to $4.662 billion, and desktops growing 21 percent, but just to $1.936 billion. iPod revenues fell 26 percent to $2.528 billion, but were more than compensated for by the iPhone and iPad, which rocketed 133 percent and 99 percent to $24.417 billion and $9.153 billion, respectively.



Make a friggin Mac client already
Welted
Silent Knights.
LinkNet
#2 - 2012-01-28 09:26:59 UTC
Not only that but just google mac use in higher education. I have two nieces in different schools now and both swear that 50% or more of the students all have macs. In the US walk into a coffee shop and look around.

http://www.grouplogic.com/about/news/survey-mac-use-growing-on-campus.html
etc.

Sure windows has a lead right now but its not always going to be the case. Another very large MMO (name omitted) is a publicly traded company. They have a mac client. If it was a money losing venture their shareholders would be pissed I'm sure.

At the very least maybe invest some more QA time on the Cider port. That thing sucks. Or look for another solution.
Adrenalinemax
Lap Dancers
Brothers of Tangra
#3 - 2012-03-01 13:39:20 UTC
Lest CCP not forget