Tag Archive | "Analysis"
Are Google and Amazon poised to do battle over Android?
In the blink of an eye, Apple and Google’s relationship transformed from one of partners fighting a common enemy (Microsoft) into an intense, and sometimes bitter, rivalry. But while Apple and Google are currently duking it out for smartphone dominance, Google’s strategy to distribute Android as far and wide as possible may soon come back [...]
Continue reading...Why Apple’s “closed” system gives it a leg up on Android
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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The crux of the debate amongst iPhone and Android fanboys ultimately reverts back to control. Whereas Android users like to point to Apple’s Soviet Union style of OS control, iPhone users counter that Android is a fragmented mess that ultimately results in a subpar user experience. The funny thing is, the control Apple is so [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iOS profits are 2.3 times higher than Microsoft’s Windows profits
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By John Hiesler: In an era where PC growth is declining, Apple is the lone company actually seeing an uptick in PC sales. More than that, because Apple offers a unique and non-commoditized experience, the margins it enjoys for each Mac sold is the envy of the entire industry. In the most recent quarter, Apple [...]
Continue reading...Apple working on feature-rich HDTV prototypes – Rumor
Friday, April 8, 2011
Citing checks in Asia, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty wrote not too long ago that Apple is currently working on a number of HDTV prototypes. While Huberty, not surprisingly, isn’t able to supply more substantial information, she theorizes that an Apple Smart TV, as she dubbed it, could mesh together “TV/Video content, gaming, DVR, as [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft debates overzealous retail expansion; Ballmer convinced “to hold back”
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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One of the integral components of Apple’s resurgence under Steve Jobs has been the company’s retail strategy. Though the ubiquity of Apple retail stores may make it easy to forget, it really wasn’t all that long ago that Apple products were hard to find, and often displayed haphazardly in stores like CompUSA and Office Depot where store [...]
Continue reading...MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman says iOS users are more likely to purchase content than Android owners
Monday, April 4, 2011
Android may have surpassed both Apple and RIM in smartphone marketshare, but app monetization on the Android platform is still not as easy as it is for Apple’s lineup of iOS devices. Part of the problem, of course, is Android fragmentation. With a slew of Android handsets out in the marketplace, developers have to account [...]
Continue reading...Jon Bon Jovi says Steve Jobs is “personally responsible for killing the music business” – Here’s why he’s wrong
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
So many song titles to riff off of, it’s hard to know where to start. Well, here goes. Not only does rocker Jon Bon Jovi give love a bad name, he’s now taken to trashing iTunes and Steve Jobs as well. The Bon Jovi front man recently lamented the changing landscape of the music buying [...]
Continue reading...The lunacy of Steve Jobs’ “reality distortion field”
Friday, March 4, 2011
Steve Jobs has charisma. He has panache. Hell, he might even be the most interesting guy in the world. Whatever you wanna call it, Jobs has an uncanny ability to pitch a product in a way that makes you think “Man, my funds are running low, but jeez, I gotta pick me up one of [...]
Continue reading...Why Apple’s DNA puts the iPad 2 ahead of the competition
Friday, March 4, 2011
There are a lot of nuggets to devour from Apple’s iPad media event, but one tidbit worth writing about is Steve Jobs’ take on the tablet market and why he feels Apple is uniquely positioned to succeed where other tablet manufacturers are not. In essence, it cuts at the very way Apple views the tablet [...]
Continue reading...Apple makes more money per handset sold than RIM and Motorola combined – and here’s why
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Much like the iPod before it, the success and vision of the iPhone forced a slew of companies to step up their game in a serious way, but in the end, no competing device has yet been able to hold a candle to Apple’s offering. From a business standpoint, Apple’s success with the iPhone is similarly difficult, if not impossible, [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft is a better stock buy than Apple? Puhleeze
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
I thought Motley Fool was supposed to be a source of good investment advice, but if this article from Chris Baines is any indication, MF readers might as well divest immediately and either put their money under their mattresses or invest in magic beans. Baines attempts, quite unsuccessfully, to articulate why Microsoft is a better [...]
Continue reading...When it comes to watching TV, the key is to keep things simple
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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No company has quite yet figured out how to take control of the living room. From the Apple TV to various initiatives from Microsoft, the battle for the living room is littered with lukewarm successes at best. Google TV is the latest big fish to toss their hat in the ring, though they’re already experiencing difficulties as [...]
Continue reading...Study: iPhone owners are the most loyal
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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GfK, a German market-research firm, recently surveyed 2,653 smartphone owners in Brazil, Germany, China, Britain, Spain, and the US and found that iPhone owners are by far the most loyal measured against all other mobile device owners. 59% of iPhone owners indicated that they plan on sticking with Apple for future phone purchases. 35% of [...]
Continue reading...Android – a study in fragmentation?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Last week we explained why Netflix has yet to come out with a dedicated mobile app for Android. In short, the lack of a universal DRM solution for Android requires Netflix to deal with each handset manufacturer indepentently to ensure that DRM protocol meets the requirements of Hollywood movie studios. Painting with broad strokes, we [...]
Continue reading...Analyst claims Apple working on smaller and larger iPhone form factors, and why we call BS
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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Take this one with a big grain of salt, but Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu writes, after checking with sources in Apple’s supply chain, that Apple is busy developing iPhones with varying screen sizes. According to Wu, Apple is working on 2 new iPhone models, with one sporting a bigger screen than the iPhone 4′s [...]
Continue reading...Android – Too open for its own good?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Now that Apple has loosened up many of its previous restrictions on iOS development, iPhone critics are struggling more than ever to come up with reasons why the iPhone pales in comparison to Google’s Android. One reason still shouted from the rooftops centers on the openness of Android, especially when measured against what were previously Apple’s evil, [...]
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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