Mac sales have gone under a 39% increase in April 2010, Gene Munster reports basing on the NPD data.

“April NPD data gives us the first sign of the degree to which the iPad cannibalizes iPod or Mac sales,” he writes. “From the early NPD data, it appears that the iPad has a minimal cannibalization impact on Mac sales, and could be slightly cannibalizing iPod sales. Given the [average selling price] (4x) and margin profile of the iPad, we see this as a net positive for Apple’s business.”

As All Things Digital reports though, the iPad won’t really cannibalize the sales of Macs:

“We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal. Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption, vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size).”

See the NPD data image below:

[via Fortune]

Spoiler: Windows wins. The Mac isn’t built to play games, and the response is that people who play games casually will pick something up on the computer, while serious gamers will float towards consoles. While I’d strongly argue that this is a big “negative” and that console gaming is simply more accessible, the problem here is with OpenGL and how OS X accesses hardware via “half-baked” driver bottlenecks. Also, Mac player’s consistently have trouble AWP’ing n00bs with their Magic Mouses.

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What’s a social workflow you ask? Heck if I know! These confounded devices transmit everything these days. But I will tell ya, the future is looking bleak if Apple gets in bed with Facebook.

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Foxconn is set to ship 24 million units of Apple’s next iPhone in 2010, Digitimes reports.

“According to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers:

Foxconn will ship 4.5 million units in the first half and 19.5 million units for the rest of 2010. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

The new device will adopt IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution, Kuo said, noting that LG Display and Prime View International are the panel suppliers.

The iPhone 4G will run on the Arm Cortex A8 processor and a 512MB memory module from Samsung Electronics, doubling the memory capacity seen in the iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the multi-tasking capability of the iPhone 4.0 platform, Kuo revealed.”

The question is, will 24 million units be enough or too much for 2010?

In news I didn’t expect to hear for quite awhile, the iPhone is starting to make  some noise in the corporate sector. Standard Chartered is offering 75,000 employees the opportunity to ditch their Blackberry’s for one of Apple’s luxurious devices, though is one company really enough to break news for? Sure, if that company is involved in global initiate to get other banks to follow through. RIM might not have anything to worry about after all, but this should raise an eyebrow at what could be a future trend. While we won’t see the iPhone’s best enterprise features until OS 4.0 is available to the public, it’ll be interesting to see what effect that has, if any, on our corporate overlords.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]