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An Apple Dealer Near You unregistered |
posted March 21, 2002 10:03
I found this quote on MacCentral, from Apple's Senior Director of Hardware Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak:
quote: OK, Greg, you want to talk reality? You say that 10% of the 125,000 shipped iMacs have gone to the Apple Stores. 10% X 125,000 = 12,500 units How many Apple stores? Let�s say 30. (The larger this number is, the fewer iMacs each store will appear to get, so overestimating the number of stores just supports his argument.) 12,500 / 30 = 416.66 Units per store Each Apple Store has received over 400 units. According to our records, we�ve received 47 of the iMac 800s, and 12 of the iMac 700/combo units. 47 + 12 = 69 Units 416 � 69 = 347 Units The Apple Stores have received, on average, based on Apple�s own numbers, 347 more iMacs PER STORE than we have received. That�s 502.8% more iMacs than a Premiere Apple Specialist Reseller has received! Reality, Greg? Distorted Reality, courtesy Steve Jobs, maybe. From a certain view, yes, Apple has moved fewer iMacs to the stores than to the dealer channel, but on a per store basis, this statistic doesn�t hold water. Oh, Greg, one final question: What percentage of those 125,000 iMacs went to the Apple ONLINE Store?
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Michael unregistered |
posted March 21, 2002 11:46
I agree, and disagree... I hope Joswiak meant "Apple Store" to include world wide on-line sales too. This would explain the discrepancy a lot better. However, if he really meant JUST the 27 American retail stores receive 10%, then what he said could be called a deliberate lie. What is it they say about statistics again... IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 254 |
posted March 21, 2002 17:56
quote: Check your math, Apple Dealer. If you got 47+12 units, that's 59, not 69. Thus the rest would be: Which just makes this worse, if true. =bd Shoulda ordered before the price went up IP: Logged |
macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1126 |
posted March 21, 2002 18:00
Life is a stage, and it seems that steve and apple are good and mocking around numbers and facts over the average persons mind. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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