Apple\'s G5 iMac delay

Market research firm IDC says that Apple's G5 iMac delay, due primarily to IBM's inability to produce and deliver significant quanities of the G5 CPU, will have a on the company's bottom line, according to a Reuters report: "The new iMac will miss out on the crucial back-to-school season. Education sales account for about 25 percent of Apple's total revenue...Using 2003 shipments figures as a proxy, Kay said that one month of lost iMac production amounted to about 32,000 units, or about $32 million in sales, Kay said, which IDC translated to a bottom-line hit of about $260,000, after production costs, taxes and other costs. 'We looked at that figure and said it's not that big a deal,' Kay said. 'We think that kind of math is what led the company to make the decision they did (to delay the new iMac launch).'"

by MacNN Staff