Apple's Q3 hardware sales by the numbers: 17 million iPads, 26 million iPhones, 4 million Macs

Apple's out with its third quarter financials today and, as is customary, it's provided some sales figures for all of its big hardware categories. Those are headlined by record sales of the iPad, which jumped a whopping 84 percent year-over-year to 17 million units sold during the quarter (no word on a breakdown by iPad model, though). iPhone sales were also up to 26 million units sold, although that represents a more modest growth of "just" 28 percent, no doubt due in part to folks holding off on a purchase until the next model comes out. A bit more surprising are the Mac sales numbers which, despite a new slate of MacBooks, saw growth of only two percent for sales of an even four million in the quarter -- that's compared to growth of seven percent in Q2. As has been trend for some time now, the company's venerable iPod line is the one area that continues to see a rather steep decline as phones and tablets take over, with it dropping ten percent year-over-year to sales of 6.8 million for the quarter.

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