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...
Apple's U.S. MacBook sales came in softer than expected in December, according to NPD
MacBook Air. Photo: Apple Inc.
In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster offered his analysis of the NPD Group's final PC retail sales data for 2011.
The news, as he sees is, is good and bad.
Domestic Mac unit sales were...
Apple is the only bright spot in the industry's worst quarter in a decade
Source: Gartner. Chart: PED
Fourth quarter personal computer numbers for the U.S. market came in from Gartner and IDC Wednesday and for the second quarter in a row, Apple (AAPL) sales grew like gangbusters while the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PC market actually shrank.
Apple...
And in the Apple market, Lion is still trailing two-year-old Snow Leopard
Data: NetApplications. Graph: PED
In its final monthly report for 2011, NetApplications offers a window on the shifting fates of the various flavors of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows and Mac OS X that show up at its 40,000 clients' websites.
As a rule, creaky old legacy systems...
Only the Paul Allen-Bill Gates feud and Borders' liquidation prevented a clean sweep
Source: WSJ.com
If you ever wondered why there are so many reporters -- like this one -- covering Apple (AAPL), here's a clue:
According to Thursday's Wall Street Journal, eight out of 10 of the most-read corporate news stories on WSJ.com in 2011 were about...
A lot. Despite delayed launches, they download nearly as many iPad apps as U.S. users
Share of U.S. and Chinese iPad app downloads. Source: Distimo
Consider this:
The original iPad didn't go on sale on mainland China until September 2010, five months after its U.S. launch. The iPad 2 arrived in May 2011, two months after its U.S. launch,...The schools' ActiveSync networks are now off limits to new Apple and Android tablets
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In January, according to the New York Times, the NYC public school system -- the largest in the U.S. -- joined the latest educational technology bandwagon and spent $1.3 million to buy 2,000 iPads for classroom use.
On Nov 10., the...
Up from 93% with iPhone 4. What they like most: Siri. Least: Too short battery life.
Source: ChangeWave
Despite widely publicized reports of unexplained battery drainage, the satisfaction ratings on Apple's (AAPL) latest iPhone continue to hover in what ChangeWave research director Paul Carton calls "nosebleed territory."
In a survey of 215 new iPhone 4S owners, 77% declared themselves...
83% of the apps downloaded in the past month were for a Google or Apple phone
Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
The U.S. smartphone market is starting to look like a two-horse race, judging from data scheduled to be released Wednesday by a Nielsen general manager at AppNation III in San Francisco. Among the new findings:
44% of...Only "money" and "clothes" scored higher in an annual pre-holiday survey
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For 22 years, Piper Jaffray researchers have been asking American teenagers what they want for Christmas, and for the past four years Apple (AAPL) products have been moving steadily up the wish lists.
All told, according to a note to clients issued Monday by...
Microsoft's claim that its voice command system is Siri's equal is put to the test
Click to view the video. Source: TechAU
You might think that Microsoft's (MSFT) Chief Research and Strategy Officer would have spent some time playing around with Apple's new intelligent personal assistant before making the claim -- as Craig Mundie did earlier this week...
Biggest savings on Macs. Best deals on accessories. But beware the malware.
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Apple (AAPL) posted its Black Friday sale prices at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time Friday and they were exactly as rumored.
The savings on Apple-branded products range from a high of 15.94% on $69 accessories like the Magic Trackpad to 7.02% -- less than the sales...
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