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iBook-User Report:   Quarterly iBook Sales Tops 253,000 units !   Yesterday, during Apple's 1st Quarter Financial Press Conference call it was revealed that iBook sales numbers for the first fiscal quarter of 2000 were 235,000 iBooks. That equals 78,333 iBooks sold a Month, 2,554 a Day, 106 an Hour or 1 every 34 seconds !!! It was also revealed that Apple has caught up in iBook deliveries and there is no longer a long wait for one of the best selling portable computers around the World. Total Macintosh sales numbers for the first fiscal quarter of 2000 were 1.377 million. This included, in this number 700,000 iMacs. The company also shipped and sold 350,000 PowerMac G4s during the quarter. Which would leave about 92,000 sales to the PowerBook line.  Overall Apple had a 37% rise in revenue with US$2.34 billion in sales! and profits of US$183 million or $1.03 per share. This is awesome and beats estimates of $0.86 a share by a good 0.17 cents a share. Apple noted that although gross margins slipped to 25.9% from about 28% last year. Apple expects to maintain gross margins over 25% and expects to keep operating expenses to 19%. thru the year 2000.  This is great News, and we expect it to continue thruout the year.. Stay tuned, Steve Jobs will be pulling a lot more Rabbits out of his hat!   Staff Feedback   Recent iBook-User News Articles 01/20/00 Quarterly iBook Sales Top 253,000 units ! iBook-User 01/07/00 iBook-User "Community eMail Bag" has been updated 12/20/99 Our New iBook Book Store is Open 12/13/99 The iBook: For Everyone 12/7/99 Interview : with Gene Steinberg Author, of "Sams Teach Yourself the iBook in 24 Hours" 12/6/99 How Much Did You Spend Upgrading Programs for OS 9 ? 12/6/99 Results of Poll 6 "Have You or Will You be Installing OS 9 on Your iBook ?" 11/29/99 RE:Active's iStrap coming soon! 11/24/99 Win An iBook ! in the :CNET Holiday Wish Sweepstakes ! 11/17/99 Have You or Will You be Installing OS 9 on Your iBook ? 11/17/99 Results of our Last Poll #5 10/25/99 What Factor Caused You to Not Get an iBook ? 10/18/99 What would You like to see Improved/Upgraded on the iBook? 10/8/99 What's Your Favorite iBook Feature? 9/30/99 Apple Posts iBook Ads Online ! 9/16/99 iBook Help.com Now Online ! 9/14/99 Reader Note:Apple Iceland Now Taking iBook Orders ! 9/09/99 Reader Question:When will iBook be for sale in Europe ? 9/09/99 Apple Japan Announces - iBook Pre-Ordering 9/08/99 Register to WIN a: Brand New iBook! From Small Dog Electronics! 9/07/99 Chance to Win an iBook Doing Demo Days 9/07/99 Report: iBook Demo Days Coming ! and More... 9/01/99 Report: Seybold - iBook and Airport News 8/31/99 Will The iBook Be Your First Computer? 8/24/99 Will the iBook be Your First Laptop Computer? 8/21/99 Report:Get your iBook icons, Kaleidoscope schemes and more... 8/20/99 CompUSA Source Reports Sept. 24th iBook Debut ! 8/17/99 HOW Magazine Contest 8/17/99 My Pilgrimage To Border's 8/16/99 Airport To Take Off at Schools 8/09/99 RE: Business Week G3/iBook Article 8/09/99 Welcome to Our Grand Re-Opening   The First web site Dedicated to Apple's iBook !  iBook-User © is a Publication of P1 Publishing LLC 2001 all rights reserved. est. 7/18/99

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