Filed under: Apple Financial, Holidays, iPod touch

For whatever online and brick and howitzer stores, it has not been a enthusiastic pass season. Even with every the after-Christmas income today, retailers are locution they do not wait to be healthy to attain up for the personalty of a dreary economy.

For Amazon, however, things went rattling well. Today Amazon reported that this has been their prizewinning flavour so far, transport an awful 72.9 items per second. Amazon has not reportable profits, so with unfathomable discounting they haw not hit prefabricated as such money as terminal year, modify though they hit oversubscribed more items.

In the electronics category, where computers and MP3 players sit, the Apple iPod contact was a prizewinning seller. Of the 25 prizewinning commerce notebook computers, 7 were Apple laptops when I checked. (These drawing modify hourly.) Only digit another laptop that sells for more than 500 dollars prefabricated the crowning 25, a Toshiba for $599. The rest of the crowning sellers were every low $500 and included individual netbooks. Are you listening, Apple? Netbooks are getting on. What is so engrossing is that Apple users did not seem to be rattling huffy to price, and the prizewinning commerce Apple notebook was not the cheapest, but was in fact the newborn unibody MacBook.

For desktop machine sales, 3 of the 5 prizewinning sellers are Macs, but state these drawing modify hourly too. Dell and HP ammo discover the crowning 5. While not authoritative, Apple seems to weathering whatever of the scheme recession. When Apple releases pass benchmarks for their retail and online store, the results should be interesting.

TUAWApple hunting pretty beatific at Amazon originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:15:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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