- iPad: 13.276M units, $5.889B revenue (vs. 14.617M units, $6.374B revenue YOY). . . shipments of iPads down 10% !!! Man the lifeboats!
Yup, you can sell so many, gotta find new buyers. Previous buyers just won't give up their old versions (we're still enjoying iPad 1 and iPad 2 devices and are happy with them).
Meanwhile…
Microsoft's Surface Tablet Sales Tanked
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-sales-2014-4
Microsoft said Surface revenue was $500 million for last quarter. That's a big drop from the $893 million in Surface revenue the company reported for Q4 2013.
From another article:
… cost of burying the inital batch of Surface Mini devices in a Shenzhen landfill, similar to the way Atari buried its ill-fated “E.T.” video game in New Mexico in the 1980s.
This follows a $900 million writeoff of Surface-related costs in fiscal 2013.
Yup, things are bad for Apple!