For the first time, the number of iPhone users in the US now exceeds the number of Windows Mobile users, according to a recent report released by ComScore. According to the report, there were about 9 million iPhone users in the US in October while the number of Windows Mobile users came in at around [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
The Palm Pre. The BlackBerry Storm. Windows Mobile. Miss Cleo. These are all things that are powerless to stop the ever growing success and ubiquity of the iPhone. According to the most recent report from Gartner, which covered the third quarter of 2009, the iPhone accounted for 17% of all smartphone sales worldwide. Last year [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Mac sales grow 11.8% as Apple takes 94% U.S. market share - AppleInsider Mac Pro to get exclusive on six-core, 32nm Xeons? - Electronista ‘Wi-Fi Direct’ to simplify peer-to-peer wireless networking - MacRumors Over 1.5 million devices using pirated iPhone apps - iPodNN Apple’s departure from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts green politics over interests of shareholders - [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
A recent report from Canalys indicates that iPhone marketshare in both in the US and abroad continues to accelerate at an impressive rate. Canalys’ data found that Apple’s share of the US smartphone market in Q2 2009 came in at 23%, up from 7% during the same period a year-ago and representing an astounding 365% increase year to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Recent NPD data shows that 12% of US households own some sort of Mac computer, a significant jump from the 9% figure recorded a year ago. But what’s intriguing about NPD’s recent data is that a whopping 85% of those Mac using households also own a PC. I suppose this means that Mac marketshare can [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 3, 2009
Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty isn’t exactly spot on when it comes to anticipating Apple earnings, but she raises a good point in a recent note to investors where she lays out a case that Apple could very well double the iPhone’s marketshare by opening up distribution to a number of carriers. No matter how much [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 22, 2009
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With over 25% of purchased music in the US coming from iTunes, it’s hard to imagine iTunes’ market share taking a significant hit anytime soon. As services like Rhapsody and Napster continue to flounder, Amazon is probably best positioned to actually make some inroads against Apple. But as the chart below shows, Apple probably doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Apple’s iPhone continues to gobble up smartphone market share, representing 13.3% of worldwide market share during the second quarter of 2009. Even more impressive is that at this time a year ago, Apple’s iPhone only occupied a 2.8% market share for smartphones worldwide, representing a nearly 6x increase in just 12 months. Of course, last year [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
June data compiled by the NPD analysts reveals that when it comes to the $1000+ computer market, Apple enjoys a 91% market share. Joe Wilcox writes: According to NPD, in June, average selling prices for all PCs sold at US retail was $701, or $690 for desktops and $703 for notebooks. But the ASPs get more interesting [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
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Say what you will about Apple, but one thing’s for sure, they sure know how to make money. In a recent report on the cellphone industry, Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff found that even though Apple’s worldwide share of the cellphone market only comes in at 1%, it accounts for 20% of the industry’s profits. This [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
With iPhone market share continuing to increase, where exactly are all these new iPhone owners coming from? Well, according to Nielsen’s Q2 2009 Mobile Insights Survey, about 29% of new iPhone owners were previously Motorola owners, presumably leaving their RAZR and Q devices behind, and about 9% of BlackBerry owners ditched their trackball laden devices for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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While maintaining its market share of 7.6%, initial reports from IDC suggest that Apple has dropped to 5th place in terms of US computer sales. Preliminary reports peg Apple as having moved 1.21 million Macs during the past quarter, representing a 12% decline from the same quarter a year ago when it shipped 1.38 million [...]
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
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