Apple & Android: 50% of smartphones
The indefatigable Horace Dediu points out on Asymco.com that although Apple's (AAPL) iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android are less than two years old as platforms, together they have captured 50.2% of what he calls "the most competitive market technology market on the planet." Below: The same data graphed as market share. Also on Fortune.com: Apple...
Who can compete with iPad on price?
A leaked ad has the Motorola Xoom selling for $300 more than the entry level iPad Not only does Apple's (AAPL) iPad have what Steve Jobs and Tim Cook like to call a first mover advantage, but it seems to have a big edge over its competitors on sticker price as well. Engadget has posted...
Survey: 44% of Verizon Android users likely to switch to iPhone on Day One
For Blackberry users it's 66%, and nearly a quarter are willing to stand in line to get one We're not familiar with the work of uSamp, a high-tech online research firm based in Los Angeles, but if the results of the survey (PDF) they released last week are accurate, Research in Motion (RIMM) is in...
Rate plans: How AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile stack up
Now that Verizon has the iPhone, you can start to choose your carrier by its rates As long as AT&T (T) was Apple's (AAPL) only U.S. carrier, nobody who really wanted an iPhone did much comparison shopping on voice and data rates. You signed up for the AT&T plan that made sense for you and...
The Kindle kerfuffle – updated
Apple's rejection of a Sony Reader app has analysts leaping to conclusions about Amazon [Apple has clarified, sort of. See below.] Here we go again. A New York Times story Tuesday quoting a frustrated Sony (SNE) executive has triggered a flurry of similar-sounding headlines: Electric Pig: Apple bans Sony ebooks in iTunes app store: is...
Can Apple corner the display market?
According to iSuppli, that's the purpose of a $3.9 billion investment revealed last month When COO Tim Cook mentioned during Apple's (AAPL) Q1 2011 earning call that the company was going to spend $3.9 billion over the next two years for unspecified component pre-payments, most analysts assumed he was talking about touch screen displays for...
Android grabs 22% tablet share – not!
Reports that Apple's iPad lost a big chunk of its market turn out to be premature Judging from Monday morning's tech headlines, Apple's (AAPL) iPad must have got clobbered last quarter. VentureBeat: "Android steals tablet market share from Apple's iPad" Huffington Post: "Android tablets eat away at iPad's lead" Computerworld: "Android tablets sales skyrocket, a...
Apple is still sucking most of the profit out of the mobile phone business
In the fourth quarter of 2010, the iPhone had 4.2% market share and took 51% of the profit On the same day that Canalys reported that Google's (GOOG) Android had become the world's leading smartphone platform in Q4 2010 -- with 33.3% of market share to Nokia's (NOK) 31% and Apple's (AAPL) 16.2% -- Asymco's...
Apple: World’s ‘most desired’ brand
But it comes in behind BMW in China, Trader Joe's in the U.S., Singapore Airlines in Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund in Germany, according to M&C Saatchi There's a wealth of information in the 56-page "Brand Desire" report issued this week by the Clear marketing division of M&C Saatchi, the advertising firm formed by...
Angry Birds voted “best app ever”
At Macworld, an avian slingshot game wins top spot in seven categories Angry Birds hardly needs any more accolades. The game -- in which players use a slingshot to launch small flightless birds at pigs protected by increasingly complex but unstable structures -- dominated Apple's (AAPL) App Store for most of 2010. The $4.99 version...
