Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse
There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.
The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus...
Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011
Source: Canalys
Canalys singled out Apple (AAPL) for special mention Friday when it announced that by its count, shipments of smartphones in 2011 overtook those of client computers, even when tablets are included.
"Apple's impressive end to the year resulted in it becoming the...
Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings
Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco.com
Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple (AAPL) just gets worse.
As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3% in second quarter...
A Taiwanese impersonator brings out the worst in Apple's critics and fans
Homage or sacrilege?
It's hard to say which is worse, the tasteless appropriation of Steve Jobs' trademark jeans and black turtleneck -- with added halo and angel wings -- to hawk a technology he famously dismissed as "shit," or the kinds of things people are...
The results of the "People's Choice" app award are announced at Macworld|iWorld
Image: Halfbrick Studios
A record 1.5 million votes were cast earlier this month in the fourth annual Best App Ever contest, more than three times as many as last year. Created in 2008 by 148Apps -- a smartphone app-tracking website named after the maximum number...
100% according to a survey of educational technology directors conducted in October
Image: Apple Inc.
In the wake of Apple's (AAPL) iPad textbook announcement Thursday, it might be useful to take a second look at Piper Jaffray's October survey of 25 school technology directors. The sample is small, concedes Gene Munster, who conducted the survey, but so...
Between October and Christmas, Apple's U.S. sales nearly caught up to Android's
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Three findings stand out in Nielsen's December survey of the U.S. mobile phone market, released Wednesday:
Among recent smartphone buyers, 44.5% of those surveyed in December bought an Apple (AAPL) iPhone, up from 25.1% in October 57% of new iPhone buyers said...Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. smartphone market nearly caught up to Google's (GOOG) Android in the first two months of the fourth quarter, according to a new report from the NPD Group.
Apple's market share jumped from 26% in Q3 to 43% in October and November while Android's fell from 60% to 47%.
Underscoring Apple's strength...
New analysis suggests the payoff could be seven fold greater if it holds out for a win
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In a note to clients issued Monday, Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore lists four possible outcomes of the patent wars being fought in courts around the world between Apple (AAPL) and the Google (GOOG) Android ecosystem:
1) settlement with...
Interest in the Galaxy Nexus is high, but the iPhone still leads in customer satisfaction
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The next few months should be very good for Apple (AAPL) and Samsung -- and not so good for HTC and Research in Motion (RIMM) -- according to the results of a survey of 4,000 North American early adopters...
And re-sold it to consumers for billions more than it paid, according to Toni Sacconaghi
The only difference between a 16 GB iPhone 4S and the 32 GB model is 16 GB of NAND flash memory, for which Apple (AAPL) charges customers $100.
But according to Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi, Apple buys that memory for a heavily discounted...
Taking another crack at the $1.23 billion market for ads on tablets and mobile phones
According to several sources, Apple has hired Adobe vice president Todd Teresi to head its iAd mobile advertising service, a position that has been vacant since last summer.
iAd was one of those projects Steve Jobs launched with great fanfare but which...
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