Tim Cook
The upgrade sales of Snow Leopard, which we include the family in the box set were more than double what we experienced from Leopard over the same five-week initial sales period. And so, this doubling was much more than we had planned and was very pleasantly surprised by it.
Shannon Cross - Cross Research
Great. I guess the price cut worked. So, thank you.
Tim Cook
Yes, it did. Thank you.
Nancy Paxton
Thanks, Shannon. Could we have the next question, please?
Operator
From Credit Suisse, we''ll hear from Bill Shope.
Bill Shope - Credit Suisse
Okay, great. Thanks, guys. Last year, you provided some commentary around longer-term gross margin trends. Do you have any thoughts on this for fiscal 2010 or at least how we should think about this longer-term?
Peter Oppenheimer
Sure, Bill. I''ll give you some qualitative thoughts. For the December quarter, I guided to about 34%. I don''t want to make forecast today for future quarters on a quantitative basis, but I think there are two things that you ought to be aware of. First, for some key components, costs are rising and that''s visible to, to you. And second, we are continuing to focus on delivering state of the art products at price points that our competitors can''t match. And we are going to continue to provide ever increasing value to our customers.
Bill Shope - Credit Suisse
Okay, great. Thank you.
Nancy Paxton
Thanks, Bill. Could we have the next question, please?
Operator
We''ll hear from David Bailey with Goldman Sachs.
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