Recapping:
SixColors did a nice write up of Apple numbers with easy to digest charts:
- Apple Fiscal Year End (FYE or FY) is end of September of a given year. FY23 is the fiscal year that ends at the end of September 2023.
- IDC is reporting units on a CY quarterly basis
- Apple is reporting revenue on a FY quarterly basis (and their policy seems to be "report as little financial information as legally possible"). We can re-label time periods to make comparisons easier.
- Apple reported mac revenue dropped from 10.9B to 7.7B for 2021CY4Q vs 2022CY4Q
- IDC reported mac units sold dropped 7.7M to 7.5M for 2021CY4Q vs 2022CY4Q
- That implies average selling price also dropped from $1,415 to $1,026 for those same periods.
- Maybe Apple went from selling higher priced Pros and Studios at the end of 2021, compared to more Minis at the end of 2022?
- Apple reported mac revenue changed from 10.4B to <TBD> for 2022CY1Q vs 2023CY1Q (need to wait for Apple's earnings call on 5/4)
- IDC reported mac units sold dropped 6.9M to 4.1M for 2022CY1Q vs 2023CY1Q
- That implies that the average selling price was $1,500 for 2022CY1Q
- Still selling M1Pro/Max laptops and studios?
- Since Apple started selling M2Pro/Max laptops in 2023CY1Q, I'd bet that product mix will lean towards the pricey side - say ~1,400 - for a guestimated mac revenue of $5.8B... We'll find out in a few weeks. Probably one reason why Apple signaled the market by saying they're cutting M2 chip orders.
Apple results and charts: $117.2B quarter is still a step back
Apple on Thursday announced its fiscal first-quarter results, and it was a step backward. The company’s year-over-year revenue fell $6.7 billion, though with total revenue of $117.2 billion i…sixcolors.com
Interestingly, profit % was at a near-record high for 2021CY4Q while revenue was down. Apple is choosing higher profits vs increasing Mac market share. This revenue variation has to be giving Tim some major heartburn.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown! You illustrate clearly why the IDC story makes me uneasy. They essentially claim that during a quarter where Apple introduced no new product and experienced a large decline in revenue, they were still selling record-breaking amounts of Macs (albeit overwhelmingly the cheapest ones). Already this is hard to swallow for me when one considers the price of Macs — there have to be an ungodly amounts of $999 M1 MBAs and M1 Minis to drop the average to $1000.
And then during a quarter when they released new MacBook Pros and M2/M2 Pro Mac Minis (the product a lot of people were waiting for!) — according to IDC at least — they are supposed to made 40% fewer sales compared to a quarter with no new product release at all? This just doesn't add up for me...