Feb 03

While Macs Go Up, iPods Fall Down

Since it's Sunday, I don't want to keep you with long stories. After all, there have been a bunch of interesting news last week, and if you missed them, you know what to do... Today, I will highlight an interesting fact, something that everyone expected to happen sooner or later, and now it's finally happening - iPods are manufactured in smaller numbers, while Macs production is going up!

iPods line

This is not my imagination, and it's not a rumor I read somewhere on the Web, either. In fact, it all comes from the Bank of America investment firm, which made some checks with their sources located in the Far East, where Apple's hardware is manufactured, and the information they got from there lead them into believing iPod production has been lowered, while Steve Jobs' company ramped up the production of Macs, at the same time.

Well, I was expecting this to happen since Leopard came up. Being given the excellent market performance and customer satisfaction of this latest Mac OS X version, combined with Vista's problems, it's something normal to see a lot of people making the switch to the Macs.

The numbers go like this - compared to early January estimations, Mac desktops and notebooks production is about 20 percent higher, while the quantity of iPods expected to be manufactured in the March quarter is over 30 percent lower compared to early December estimations, and about 20 percent, when looking back at the estimations done in early January.