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Survey shows ‘unprecedented’ demand for Apple’s iPhone 5

Demand for the iPad is also rising, according to data from a ChangeWave survey

Click to enlarge. Source: RBC

RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky has raised his fourth quarter iPhone and iPad estimates based on the results of a survey of 2,200 potential buyers. The survey, conducted in August by ChangeWave research, showed what Abramsky called "unprecedented iPhone...

Survey: iCloud likely to launch with 150 million subscribers

76% say they'll sign up for free e-mail; 30% for the $25/year music matching service

Click to enlarge. Source: RBC Capital

Apple (AAPL) is not a company known for giving things away for free, but when they do, people tend to respond positively. According to a survey conducted for RBC Capital the week after Steve Jobs' iCloud...

Why AAPL has been in the doldrums for the past 6 months

Exploring the mysteries of what the analysts call "multiple compression"

When Apple's (AAPL) shares responded to the news out of the company's developers conference by closing the week at $325.90 -- their lowest level since last December -- I thought I'd take a look at how last Friday's stock price compared with the 12-month price targets...

What the Foxconn explosion means for Apple

An analyst sketches out the economic implications in two scenarios: One serious, one less so RBC capital's Mike Abramsky was the first analyst out of the gate Friday with a note to clients assessing the effect on Apple (AAPL) of the explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu plant. According to Abramsky, the plant is one of two...

Up to 20% of iPad owners expected to upgrade

Mike Abramsky, a technology analyst for RBC Capital Markets, predicts up to 20% of the original iPad's buyers will upgrade to the iPad 2 over the next 12 months. But Abramsky suggests the number of customers upgrading to iPad 2 will be eclipsed by bu...

Tablet market heading for a shakeout

A dispatch from Barcelona sees trouble ahead for the iPad's competitors RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky has coined a new acronym: NAAT! (Not Another Android Tablet!) "The geyser of Android tablet launches continues," he writes in a note to clients from Day 2 of Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. He mentions, among others, the HTC...

Verizon halts iPhone orders. An estimated 100,000 units pre-sold

In two hours, Apple's smartphone breaks all the carrier's first-day launch sales That didn't take long. Verizon (VZ) announced Friday that it had halted pre-sales of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, having burned through its first shipment in less than a day. It took only two hours -- from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. EST Thursday --...

Steve Jobs’ leave: Analysts weigh in

Apple's CEO, says one, is both the company's biggest asset and its biggest risk The U.S. financial markets were closed, but a few analysts took a break from their Martin Luther King Day remembrances to say a few words about what Steve Jobs' latest health advisory might mean to Apple (AAPL) shareholders. Morgan Stanley's Katy...

Web wars: Blackberry overtakes iPhone – updated

At least in the U.S., according to StatCounter. Worldwide, Nokia's Symbian still rules When Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPhone, it awakened a sleeping giant in Canada, forcing Research in Motion (RIMM) to improve the experience of browsing the Web on a BlackBerry. Those efforts have finally paid off. According to a report issued Wednesday by...

What if Verizon never gets an iPhone?

An analyst examines the impact on iPhone shipments and on Apple's share price In the wake of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg's remarks Thursday -- which seemed to pour cold water on rumors of the imminent release of a Verizon iPhone -- RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky takes a look at the implications in a note to...

Who buys Apple's $18+ billion quarter?

Analysts either don't believe Apple's revenue guidance, or they're deliberately low-balling it Anybody who follows its earnings reports can tell you that Apple (AAPL) guides conservatively, under-estimating its forward-looking numbers to demolish them at the end of the quarter. Only once in the past 23 quarters -- in the summer of 2006 -- did it...

How deep is the Apple iPad's pent-up demand?

Not as deep as it was five months ago, according to the latest ChangeWave survey In a report to clients issued Tuesday, RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky trots out a new survey in which 13% of respondents said they'd be interested in buying an iPad — more than the 9% who said they were keen on buying...