Mac Sales Rocket Up 35 Percent, Even as People Embrace iPad

From DailyTech: Many may have thought the iPad would surely devour sales from any other Maccomputer available right now due to its lower price of entry, but according to analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray from the NPD Group, Mac sales increased by 35 percent during the month of May; one month after the iPad launched.

This increase shows analysts that the iPad, while it is a competitive seller on the Applefront, will not dwarf the sales of other Apple giants like the Mac. In fact, new NPD domestic retail data predicts that Apple will sell somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2 million Mac's for the quarter. In addition, they're suggesting that Mac growth will continue to increase year-over-year between 19 and 23 percent.

The figures show that Mac has had a pretty stable pattern of increased sales over the course of 2010, with the exception of March, and continues to hold that pattern of increased sales despite the iPad's arrival. The figures are as follows for 2010: January, 36 percent; February, 43 percent; March, seven percent; April, 39 percent; and May, 35 percent.

"We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal," said Munster. "Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size)."

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