The failure of mobile music downloads
The carriers' combined market share shrank to 4.9% last year as Apple solidified its lead Songs streamed directly to cellphones, once touted as the next big thing in digital music, failed to take off and is now rapidly losing ground to Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store. That's the conclusion of a survey in the May 22...
AT&T dropping more calls than ever
Three times as many as Verizon, according to a consumer survey released Tuesday AT&T (T) announced in January that it was spending $2 billion this year to improve its much maligned cellular network. But you wouldn't know it from the survey of smartphone customers released Tuesday by ChangeWave Research, the consumer polling division of InvestorPlace.com....
How callers rate the carriers
Verizon leads the pack. AT&T is No. 2. T-Mobile and Sprint bring up the rear
There's bad news for Apple (AAPL) and not such great news for Palm (PALM) in a BrandIndex consumer survey published Tuesday by YouGov. Both firms originally tied their cellphones to exclusive U.S. carriers — AT&T and Sprint, respectively — neither of...
iPhone gross profit margin nears 60%
An analyst takes a close look at Apple's margins and finds the Street's consensus lacking
Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi gets a lot of attention from critics when he shortchanges Apple (AAPL). (See, for example, The case of the missing iPhones.)
When he comes to praise Cupertino? Not so much.
Case in point: The largely unnoticed 13-page report he...
Norway halts Apple iPad pre-orders
Signs of "crazy interest" in Steve Jobs' tablet computer in Scandinavia, Europe and Asia
Could enthusiasm for the iPad be even greater overseas than it is in the U.S.?
Exhibit A: Two Apple (AAPL) resellers in Norway have been overwhelmed by eager buyers whose pre-orders exceeded expected supply in less than a week.
"It's been a crazy interest...
Apple announcement: What to expect at today's event
The tech world turns its attention to San Francisco to see what Steve Jobs has up his sleeve
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts was buzzing Tuesday afternoon with black-shirted Apple staffers hauling in electronics, heavy-set security guys guarding the perimeter, TV satellite trucks jockeying for position and workers on a crane plastering the entrance...
Google phone vs. Apple iPhone
At the end of two years, the Nexus One will have cost you $500 less than the iPhone
On the heels of Google's (GOOG) release of the HTC Nexus One — popularly known as the Google phone — the folks at BillShrink have done us all a favor.
They've put out one of their handy charts comparing...
Nine ways of looking at a Google phone
The long-rumored gPhone has surfaced, but no one can agree about what it means
Google (GOOG) announced on its mobile blog Saturday what dozens of staffers had already leaked: the company has given employees around the world free handsets running its Android mobile operating system. The idea, according to the official report, is to have Google's...
Apple owns up to a Snow Leopard bug
Call it fallout from the Sidekick fiasco.
Having watched Microsoft (MSFT) go through a weekend from hell for wiping out the personal data of hundreds of thousands of T-Mobile (DT) customers, Apple (AAPL) finally acknowledged a data-swallowing bug that Snow Leopard users have been complaining about since September.
"We are aware of the issue, which occurs only...
Munster on $10 iPhones, $30 TV subscriptions, moving beyond AT&T
No cheap, mass-market iPhone — ever. A deal with Verizon or T-Mobile next summer. And a $30 – $40 subscription TV service on iTunes that could compete with cable TV within the next year.
Those are some of the predictions offered by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster in a note to clients Monday that addressed 14...
iPhone switchers: Blodget in, Arrington out
This has been busy season for celebrity iPhone switching — and I’m not talking about Britney, Ashton or Branjelina. No, these are tech celebrities, the kind of people who tend to dominate Techmeme’s list of the most-influential pundits and bloggers.
Om Malik, the New Delhi-born founder and executive editor of GigaOm (No. 17 on the Techmeme...
Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales
Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion’s (RIMM) June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley.
RIM’s BlackBerry still has a huge market share — nearly 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, second only to Nokia (NOK), according to Gartner — but Walkley’s retail checks...
