Apple announced Monday it will reveal sales for the first quarter of 2009, covering between Sept. 28th through Dec. 27th of 2008.
The results will be released at 4 p.m. Eastern and 1 p.m. Pacific, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company said. The figures will also be available through a Quicktime rebroadcast.
The numbers are highly anticipated as analyst attempt to predict how successful Apple was during the important holiday shopping period. Wall Street consensus is for a $9.75 billion quarter, pushing the upper limits of Apple’s guidance range of between $9 billion and $10 billion.
Among the Apple products introduced during Q1 were the unibody MacBooks, the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the 24-inch Cinema Display.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
