Mac sales decline even with Apple profit news

We mentioned in a post this morning that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had better than expected profits, and that part of the company’s growth was due to a couple of its smaller devices, the iPod Touch and the iPhone. However, sales of the Mac have taken a bit of a knock.

It is great to see that some companies are able to ride out the storm, and Apple’s growth is proof that there is still hope. Business Week has said that Apple has reported earnings of $1.21 billion or $1.33 per share, which is on a revenue of $8.16 billion. This was at least 24 cents better than Wall Street analysts had predicted.

iPod sales grew by 3 percent over the same quarter last year, iPhone sales grew by 123 percent. It is a very different story for Mac computers, sales declined by 3 percent. CFO Peter Oppenheimer was talking at a recent conference, where he said that the reason for the poor sales this quarter for Macintosh personal computers was the unusually high Mac sales during the March quarter in 2008; this was due to the launch of the MacBook Air.