Apple’s hot-selling iPad poses no threat to the Macintosh computers, though it’s already chomping into iPod sales, the investigate inform suggests.

NPD Group upon Monday afternoon expelled total divulgence the 17-percent year-to-year diminution for April iPod sales. Meanwhile, Mac computers have been saying full of health expansion, increasing 39 percent compared to final April.

Because a iPad was released April 3, Piper Jaffray researcher Gene Munster believes a brand-new inscription device is contributing to a shrinkage in iPod sales.

“April NPD interpretation gives us a initial pointer of a grade to which a iPad cannibalizes iPod or Mac sales,” Munster pronounced. “From a early NPD interpretation, it appears which a iPad has the minimal cannibalization stroke upon Mac sales, and could be somewhat cannibalizing iPod sales.”

It may appear peculiar which Apple’s inscription computer could be impacting sales of media players rather than than notebooks as well as desktops. However, it’s not all which surprising, given the iPad in its current state is not the full-blown mechanism deputy, though rather than an extravagant media-consumption device.

We additionally wouldn’t be astounded if a iPhone is negligence down Apple’s iPod sales — generally those land out for a fourth-generation iPhone which Gizmodo may have leaked final month.

iPod sales have been steadily dropping since a iPhone gained critical movement in 2008. Some tech observers have predicted Apple would pause a iPod Classic. Given a dwindling costs of peep memory as well as healthy expansion of iPhone OS inclination, we’re willing to gamble this will be a year Apple eventually lays a Classic to rest.

Via BusinessInsider