Analysts expect Apple to deliver another great quarter, observing the company is selling more Macs to offset slightly slower iPod sales.Analyst Shaw Wu of American Technology Research rates the company’s stock as a “Buy.”Following recent checks, the analyst raised his Mac unit shipments forecast to 1.2 million from 1.13 million, but reduced his iPod sales forecast to 8.3 million from 8.5 million. He expects Apple to deliver $4.4 billion in revenue in its current quarter. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe The analyst observes that Apple’s “Mac business appears ahead of plan with the Intel transition mostly complete, and with Boot Camp helping drive switchers and Mac users to upgrade.” Wu warns that his checks indicate iPod sales are slightly weaker than planned, “despite a strong reception from its recent back-to-school promotion.”He said, “We are seeing weaker iPod nano shipments (we believe in part due to Apple drawing down inventory) offset by strength in vPods and shuffles.” “We continue to believe the iPod nano is in need of a refresh and will likely see one in the September quarter,” he adds.Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Farmer also reduced his iPod estimate from 9.2 million to 8.1 million sales. He also lowered his full-year sales estimates to 39.4 million from 43.4 million units.-Jonny Evans, Macworld.co.ukRelated Links: Mac Users Look Forward to Booting Windows Analyst Predicts Mac Market ExplosionCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development opinion CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons Generative AI is poised to be the most consequential information technology of the decade. Plenty of promise. But expect novel new challenges to your enterprise data platform. By Mike Feibus Sep 20, 2023 7 mins CIO Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe