Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 21, 2024
Anyone got a line on how many computers Apple shipped in their PowerPC era?
that's 1994-2006, 12 years. I want to know how many in total they sold.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 21, 2024

this says in 2006 they sold 4.5 million computers, and implies that this is a recent high.
so... 12*4.5 = 54 million as a guess at an upper bound?

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0130/043.html

This Apple Is Too Shiny

The fashionable iPod has made Apple Computer beloved on Wall Street. But that success has hidden an off-key note: It's eroding the company's profitability.

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Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 21, 2024
okay lets be generous and say that number is way too low and they sold twice as many, at 108 million powerPC computers.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 21, 2024

So here's the fun thing:

The Nintendo Wii sold 101 million consoles.
The Xbox 360 sold over 81 million consoles.
The Nintendo Gamecube and Wii U add another 21 million and 14 million consoles.
All those consoles are PowerPC!

WHICH MEANS that Apple only managed to ship enough PowerPC Macs to about match the Nintendo Wii.
And all three PowerPC Nintendo consoles easily outsold all PowerPC macs.

So if you had a PowerPC chip in your house, it was most likely Nintendo's fault, not Apple's.

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
oh and another 87 million PS3s. forgot those
Oct 21, 2024 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threadWill 💜Oct 22, 2024
@foone if you calculate the sales of PS2s that had the weird franken-PPC with some guts of the PS1 CPU implanted in it (second slim revision (SCPH-7500x) and onward, introduced Nov. 2005), that's on the order of another 50 million on top of all that!
Show thread🇵🇸Murray O'Caht🇵🇸Oct 22, 2024
@foone don't forget 85 million Xbox 360s