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Daniel Eran Dilger finds anti-Apple bias Gartner's research
"Looking into its crystal ball, Gartner Group has predicted that Google’s Android will become the second largest smartphone platform by 2012," writes Daniel Eran Dilger in the one-man blog he grandly calls Roughly Drafted Magazine. "Problem is, nobody’s talking about how terrible Gartner is at predicting things, or...
AdMob: iPhone's share of the smartphone market hits a record 40%
Apple (AAPL) now has a substantial — if not the largest — share of the smartphone market in every region of the world except Asia and Africa, according to a report issued Wednesday by AdMob.
Overall, the iPhone's worldwide share grew to 40% from 33% over the last six months. In North America, its share of...
Brand values: Apple +12%, Dell -12%, Microsoft -4%
Apple (AAPL) is up, as are Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and to a lesser extent Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry.
Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL) and Yahoo (YHOO) are down.
Such are the high-tech highlights of the 2009 edition of Interbrand's annual listing of the top 100 "best global brands."
Google (up 25%) is the big winner, followed closely...
iTwinge: The iPhone in BlackBerry shortpants
If Steve Jobs were not still alive he'd be rolling over in his grave.
Having famously eschewed the BlackBerry-style keyboard to offer users a new, if somewhat inefficient, way to enter text on a mobile device, Apple's (AAPL) crack design team can now watch its work get undone.
How? With a slide-on attachment that gives the iPhone...
Abramsky: Apple, RIM could triple revenues by 2012
In a report to clients Tuesday, RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky takes a long (92 page) look at the "huge, nascent and underpenetrated" smartphone market and concludes that the emergence of devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone represents the next wave of computing — "as profound as the historic technology shift from mainframes to PCs."
Among his...
iPhone market share grew 375% in Q2
Sales of Nokia's (NOK) Symbian smartphones are drifting. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is gaining on RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry. Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile is still sinking. And the launch of the Palm (PALM) Pre barely made a ripple in the gobal smartphone market.
Those were the headlines from the smartphone portion of Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report,...
iPhone triggers boom in flash memory
Thanks in large part to Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and the growing ranks of iPhone imitators, worldwide sales of NAND-type flash memory are expected to rise nearly six-fold from 2008 to 2013, according to a report by iSuppli Corp. issued Wednesday.
Global revenue from sales of NAND flash for mobile phones could hit $932.5 million in 2013,...
Six out of 10 doctors prefer iPhones
Healthcare professionals would seem a natural market for smartphones, especially if the Obama administration makes good its campaign promise to computerize U.S. health care records.
But which smartphone will doctors and nurses be using?
Software Advice, an Austin-based resource for software buyers, tried to answer that question last week. In what it admits was not a “super-scientific”...
IT on the iPhone: 'Use at your own cost and peril'
Ever wondered why your company will support Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry but not the iPhone? Does it seem like the corporate deck is stacked against Apple (AAPL)?
A conference call with four chief information officers organized by Morgan Stanley’s Kathryn Huberty last week might have confirmed your worst fears.
Of the four guests, only one —...
Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales
Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion’s (RIMM) June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley.
RIM’s BlackBerry still has a huge market share — nearly 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, second only to Nokia (NOK), according to Gartner — but Walkley’s retail checks...
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan – Updated
Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy.
Just ask Brian X. Chen. He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan.
“Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the...
iPhone share of U.S. smartphone traffic hits 69%
See the blue slice in the pie chart at right? It represents the iPhone’s share of U.S. smartphone traffic on the network maintained by AdMob, one of the companies that run those little ads that appear on the screen of your mobile phone.
We’ve been watching that slice grow over the past few months. In February...
