Apple grabs 72% of Japan's smartphone market
Defying skeptics, iPhone sales tripled in the most recent quarter Apple (AAPL) has cracked Japan's tough smartphone market wide open, according to a report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The evidence: Apple sold 1.7 million iPhones in Japan, or 72% of all smartphones sold, in the fiscal year that ended March 31, according to Tokyo-based...
Can HP take on Google and Apple?
It certainly could, if it were willing to spend what it takes, says an analyst. But that's a big if. "Without significant increase in spending to woo channel and software partners," writes Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar in a provocative note to clients issued Monday, "HP's acquisition of Palm will likely fail." Kumar offers a...
Chart: How the smartphone market grew
The rising tide lifted all the ships. In terms of unit sales: Apple (AAPL) grew 131.6% year over year to 8.8 million iPhones Motorola (MOT) 91.7% to 2.3 million units HTC 73.3% to 2.6 million units Nokia (NOK) 56.9% to 21.5 million units Research in Motion (RIMM) 45.2% to 10.6 million units Note: IDC's numbers,...
Smartphone traffic is up 193% in a year
Led by iPhone and the Androids. Traffic from the iPod touch is growing even faster.
Smartphone traffic is up. Feature phone share is down. And traffic from mobile Internet devices (like the iPod touch) that don't have built-in phones is booming — even before Apple releases the iPad.
That's the thrust of the the latest report by...
Apple talks tough to handset makers
The HTC lawsuit capped blunt talks that have reportedly shaken their faith in Google
Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner issued a behind-the-scenes report Tuesday that sheds a lot of light on the patent suits Apple (AAPL) filed last week against HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker.
Citing "industry checks," Reiner writes that:
"Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level...
Apple, Android, RIM gain market share
Nokia, Microsoft and Linux continue to lose ground in the shift to smarter phones
A report from Gartner issued Tuesday confirmed the trends reported three weeks earlier by IDC. Both tracking firms are registering a massive shift as users around the world trade in devices designed to make phone calls and send text messages for what...
Apple grabs 25% of smartphone market
The iPhone is looking pretty good in a pair of market snapshots
In the past week, IDC and comScore have both issued reports of the fast-growing smartphone market that show Apple (AAPL) gaining share.
In the U.S., according to a comScore report published Monday, Apple's share grew to 25.3%, up more a point, in the fourth quarter...
Apple's iPad vs. the netbooks
By 2011, Apple will have captured 7% of the low-end computer market, says an analyst
"We expect the iPad to compete very well against existing low-end notebooks and netbooks, particularly in the segment of the market where surfing, reading, game playing and emailing dominate the usage model."
So says Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore in a note released...
How Apple and Nokia divvy up the world
Measured by mobile ad traffic, it's still a two-smartphone race
Forget North and South. East and West. First World, Second World and Third.
According to AdMob, the mobile advertising company acquired late last year by Google (GOOG), the world is divided — at least in terms of smartphone usage — into two parts: Apple's and Nokia's.
In its...
Morgan Stanley drinks the Apple Kool-Aid
The investment bank has seen the future and it looks a lot like the iPhone
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was the hero of an hour-long conference-call seminar on The Mobile Internet presented Tuesday by Morgan Stanley.
The report was intended to be a follow-up to Mary Meeker's 1995 "The Internet Report," which became known as "the bible" of...
Apple countersues Nokia
Two giant smartphone manufacturers mix it up in U.S. federal court
Fifty days after Nokia (NOK) sued Apple (AAPL) for allegedly stealing its intellectual property, Apple has returned the favor.
Nokia's suit, filed in October, claimed Apple was infringing on 10 patents Nokia holds on the integration of GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN — technologies at the...
