Frankly, his figures are correct. The Motley Fool did not just use Schiller's data to publish this. Are you familiar with the Sarbanes Oxley Law of 2002? It requires officers of publicly traded companies to tell the truth. If they don't they can be personally fined up to $20 million and imprisoned for up to 20 years. Phil Schiller was talking officially in Apple's name and what he said would come under SOX. His statistics are correct. Your numbers are incorrect. What you are talking about are quarterly sales numbers, his numbers are INSTALLED BASE. Two different numbers. Apple Macs have a longer usable life than the vast majority of other PCs. . . it's why they have a much higher resale value than Windows PCs of the same age.
Sarbanes Oxley Law of 2002? It requires officers of publicly traded companies to tell the truth.
See Anderson company or any Wall Street trading firm or the phony numbers used for IPO’s like Facebook and Twitter. Yep all the truth all the time by these fine upstanding companies.