iPhone to boost Mac sales

Analyst predicts iPod halo effect will repeat itself with 3G iPhone

Apple's 3G iPhone may provide a major boost to sales of Mac computers, analysts a predicting, following a similar effect the original model and its iPod brethren had.

Citing internal research, Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf said in his investment note to customers: “Our past surveys indicated that a Windows user owning an iPod was more than twice as likely to purchase a Mac as a Windows user who did not own an iPod. If anything, the iPhone halo effect should be far more powerful than the iPod halo effect.”

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