Apple's last quarter earnings report has an interesting bit in it: Despite selling nearly 3.3 million iPads and 8.4 million iPhone units in the last quarter, "Apple sold 3.47 million Macintosh computers, the most ever in a quarter" !
I believe that the exposure to Apple's design and way-of-thinking makes people reconsider the move to a Macintosh. Naturally, the expectation for a better coordination between one's devices, and having one Apple-made device at home, is another point for buying a Mac.
At the moment, Fact is, Apple has 3 winning products - Ipad, Iphone (still 3Gs, as 4 started selling only 3 days before the end of the quarter, and the antenna-gate impact on sales is still unclear), and the older boy on the block - The Macintosh.
I must confess that I am of those who believed that iPad, and his brethren of the really smart tablets, will deeply hurt Desktop and Laptops sales, and might even bring the death of the desktop/laptop on the home-users market share. This data does force one to rethink things.
Tablets are still at their initial phase of acceptance, and it really does remain to be seen what gadgets and equipment are hurt by the entrance of the new kid on the block to our lives, but now a new possiblity needs consideration - is it possible that the tablet replaces Older technology - like books and newspapers, without hurting other members of the computing world ?
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