Yesterday Apple presented the numbers for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020. Of all the string of data and numbers that it has shown to its partners, there is one fact that has not gone unnoticed. In the fourth fiscal quarter (July to September), the company has invoiced 9.000 million dollars on Macs, and nearly $ 30.000 billion for the entire year.
It is not surprising, considering the global confinement that we are suffering seasonally from the happy COVID-19 pandemic. Teleworking and studying at home obliged It has helped a lot in increasing overall laptop and tablet sales around the world. And of Apple's laptops, the two MacBook Pro models have taken the cake.
In his report annual presented today before the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, Apple has pointed out that the increase in sales of Macs this fiscal year compared to the previous year, is mainly due to the higher sales of the range MacBook Pro.
The company introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro in the first quarter of the fiscal year, followed by a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro in the third quarter, both with faster Intel processors and a keyboard. fork more reliable than the previous butterfly, which had given so many problems to users.
Apple's CFO Luca Maestri noted that the company has also seen incredible market response with strong demand for the new MacBook Air during the «Back to School«.
This report also emphasizes the good sales figures for other non-iPhone products. Numbers with a combined 30 percent growth in the last quarter, despite supply restrictions on devices such as the iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. If they had had enough stock, the sales would have been even higher.