Like its Black Friday shopping event held for those in the U.S. and other Western territories back in November, Apple is set to celebrate the Year of the Dragon with a shopping event on January 6 for customers in China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,...Apple Will Hold January 6 Shopping Event For Lunar New Year
Like its Black Friday shopping event held for those in the U.S. and other Western territories back in November, Apple is set to celebrate the Year of the Dragon with a shopping event on January 6 for customers in China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,...Woot! offers base iMac for $1055, Best Buy has BOGO iPhone 4 (AT&T or Verizon) 32GB for free w/plan
From 9to5Toys.com: . You won’t get it for Christmas, but online “sale a day” merchant Woot! is clearing out its iMac inventory by offering the new base model for $1049.99 plus $5 shipping. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen since Black Friday when both Amazon and Best Buy had it for the same price without...
Black Friday: Apple zigged while the PC market zagged
PC sales were down 8% Thanksgiving week, but demand for the MacBook Air was strong
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In a note to clients Thursday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty rattled off several reasons to explain why retail sales of personal computers in the U.S. were down 8% year over year for the week of Nov. 20 to 26,...
Report: iPads and iPhones helping create ‘couch commerce’
Above, you can see an intriguing graph from Compuware APM that shows a kind of kooky new trend in shopping this holiday season, something the researchers are calling "couch commerce." Shopping via the web is up big-time lately, and as you can see ...
Chart of the day: iPad, iPhone dominate “couch commerce”
Source: Compuware APM
As a companion piece to the comScore report Monday that Americans have spent a record $18.7 billion online so far this holiday season -- up 15% from last year -- consider this chart from Compuware APM showing the relative contributions of the two leading platforms for what it calls "couch commerce": Apple's (AAPL) iPad...
Daily Update for November 30, 2011
It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.
You can listen to today's Ap...
Apple.com fifth most-visited retail site on Black Friday
Black Friday was a successful day for online retailers. Customers spent more than US$816 million, a 26 percent increase over Black Friday 2010. Apple was one of the beneficiaries of this rise in online sales. The Cupertino company climbed its way in...
Did the Kindle outsell the iPad at Best Buy last weekend?
. Some are saying that just because the Kindle sits atop the BestBuy.com “Best Selling” tablets category, it is outselling the iPad 2. Not so fast. There is exactly one model of Kindle Fire, while there are about 16 models of iPad, two of which are second and third on the list and iPads make up a...
Tell Me Again How iPad Demand Is Waning
Tell Me Again How iPad Demand Is Waning Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster surveyed a few Apple stores on Black Friday and found that iPad sales per hour were 68 percent higher than they were a year ago. On average, the stores Munster visited sold about 14.8 iPads per hour, up from 8.8 iPads per...
Piper Jaffray reports on Apple’s impressive Black Friday sales
As reported by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune's Apple 2.0 column, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene crunched his Black Friday sales numbers and found that Macs and iPads were popular gifts. Munster said Apple sold about 10.1 Macs per hour and 14.8 iPad per...
Black Friday head count: 14.8 iPads per hour, up 68% y-to-y
Macs walked out of Apple Stores at the rate of 10.1 per hour, up 23% from 2010
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster spent the day after Thanksgiving as he has every year since 2008: standing in an Apple (AAPL) retail store counting sales. The results are summarized in the chart at right (typo his).
His observations:
In eight hours,...Talkcast tonight, 4pm HI/7pm PT/10pm ET: Holiday kickoff edition!
Here we are again, another Sunday. Provided you survived Black Friday and the turkey-based festivities, we'd love to have you join the TUAW family for a post-shopping, post-tryptophan-coma Talkcast.
Most likely we will have a few of the regulars, ...
