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 mobile phone shipments nearly doubled in 2011, overtaking LG and ZTE
Click to enlarge. Source: IDC
On the strength of sales of the iPhone 4S last quarter, Apple (AAPL) jumped two spots in IDC's ranking of the world's five largest manufacturers of mobile phones -- smart or otherwise.
In a press release issued Wednesday, IDC reported that...
A pair of reports agree -- more or less -- on the current state of the battle
Click to enlarge. Source: IHS iSupply.
Two reports published Thursday -- one by IHS iSuppli, the other by Strategy Analytics -- describe the global race for smartphone supremacy as high-stakes see-saw.
Basically what happened is that Apple (AAPL) took the lead from Nokia (NOK)...
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...
Slipping in a market Tim Cook identified as "an area of enormous opportunity"
Thousands lined up for the iPhone 4S in Hong Kong. Image: Andrew Leyden.
There's a nugget of unanchored news in a report Reuters filed Friday.
"In the third quarter," wrote Lee Chyen Yee, "Huawei overtook Apple as the No.3 smartphone vendor in China."
Without identifying its source...
Katy Huberty weighs in on the question "Why is AAPL so cheap?"
Source: Morgan Stanley
"Market Significantly Underestimates Apple's C2012 Earnings Growth" reads the headline of Katy Huberty's contribution to a 45-page Morgan Stanley report to clients Wednesday summarizing what the bank expects to be the big "investor debates" of 2012.
Her headline is an understatement, judging from...
From a 14.3% share of the global market in September to a 20.3% share in December
Click to enlarge. Estimates: Canaccord. Chart: PED
A note to clients issued Tuesday by Canaccord Genuity's T. Michael Walkley had good news and bad news for Apple (AAPL) investors.
The bad news, which we reported here, was that he expects sales of...
A cellphone eavesdropping scandal casts a shadow on Apple's competitors
Caught red-handed: Carrier IQ logging Eckhart's keystrokes
Have you heard that every text message, every e-mail, every phone number, every keystroke made on a Google (GOOG) Android phone may be secretly recorded, logged and sent to your cellular provider by a tracking service called Carrier IQ?
No? That's...
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...In a rapidly growing market, Apple's share jumped in a year from 31% to 45%
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Apple (AAPL) made significant inroads in the enterprise over the past year according a survey of 2,300 mobile workers in 1,100 enterprises conducted in September and October by iPass, a California-based provider...
But Gartner expects it to bounce back in Q4 after "strongest ever" orders for iPhone 4S
Source: Gartner, Inc.
The slowdown in iPhone sales in advance of the October release of iPhone 4S is reflected in the report on mobile phone shipments for the third quarter of 2011 issued Tuesday by Gartner, Inc.
Apple (AAPL) shipped 17 million iPhones...
Jumps to 4th place in the latest Greenpeace survey of electronics manufacturers
Click to enlarge. Source: Greenpeace
Apple (AAPL) has come a long way in the eyes of the environmental activitsts at Greenpeace since they painted Steve Jobs as a hypocrite for promising "a greener Apple" in May 2007 and delivering an iPhone the next month laced...
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