[signalsignal]

Mac sales are critical in that they are also development machines used internally as well as their "partners" who create and sell apps for the platform. Apple will never abandon the Mac platform even if it looses them money.

[Samuel_Michon]

I wrote that income from Mac sales is not significant, looking at the whole of Apple’s income. That’s not to say that Mac’s aren’t critical to Apple’s philosophy. It’s hard to see the ’Digital Hub’[1] without Mac computers.

[1] The Digital Hub (2001): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8