Nielsen: Android’s lead over iOS may have stopped growing
Google's OS is still more popular than Apple's, but no more than it was in March Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the battle for dominance of the U.S. smartphone market, according to Nielsen survey results scheduled for release Tuesday. Smartphones are increasingly popular...
The iPhone’s vector of growth
If Apple's share of global profits is going up, others' must be going down Last fall, Asymco's Horace Dediu introduced a new way of visualizing the dynamics of the worldwide mobile phone market. He started with two sets of data -- market share and dollar share in 2007 and 2010 -- for the eight largest...
Apple’s iPhone ‘dead in the water’? Really?
A second look at the claim that Apple's four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift Business Insider's Henry Blodget may come to regret -- if he doesn't already -- using the phrase "dead in the water" to describe the performance of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show,...
IDC: Apple is No. 2 in smartphones
The iPhone could be headed for No. 1 this year as it overtakes RIM and gains on Nokia The lead that Nokia (NOK) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have enjoyed for years in the smartphone market is evaporating rapidly, according to a report issued Thursday by IDC. Their immediate problem is Apple (AAPL), which shipped...
Nielsen: Android gains, iPhone slips
In a new survey of prospective U.S. buyers, RIM and Microsoft drift, Nokia disappears The launch of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone has not visibly slowed the triumphant march of Google's (GOOG) Android operating system through the mobile heartland of America, according to a Nielsen Wire report released Tuesday. In monthly surveys conducted from January to...
Analyst: 25,000 to 120,000 Xooms sold. Motorola Mobility’s survival at risk
Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry, who may have been spending too much time talking to retailers and developers. He estimates that Motorola Mobility (MMI) has sold somewhere between 25,000 and...
iPad: Not just for Apple ‘fanboys’
A comScore survey of iPad owners finds some surprises in their pockets "Though it's frequently assumed that the Apple user base is composed of dedicated Apple 'fanboys'," writes comScore' Mark Donovan, using a term demeaning to Apple (AAPL) users of both sexes, "there's not a tremendous amount of overlapping mobile device access among these users."...
Android is a mess, say developers
A new survey analyzes the pros and cons of writing for various mobile platforms On the heels of the debate played out over the weekend between Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson and Instapaper's Marco Arment about whether it's wiser to be writing apps for Apple's (AAPL) iOS or Google's (GOOG) Android come the results a...
Staples sells the iPad also-rans
Hoping to cash in on Apple's shortage by hawking Xooms, PlayBooks and Streaks "Your tablet is waiting." That was the subject line of the e-mail that landed in my inbox at 4:36 a.m. Monday. It came as a surprise to me, because the last time I checked, the iPad 2 that I finally broke down...
Kodak, don’t spend that $1BN just yet
Winning a skirmish at the ITC is not the same as winning a war. Apple vs. Nokia take note. "Kodak Wins a Round in $1 Billion Apple, RIM Patent Dispute" -- Bloomberg News Traders were pretty quick to cash in on that headline. Kodak's (EK) battered stock opened Friday at $3.30 a share and jumped...
AT&T-Mobile: What the analysts say
The acquisition deal announced on Sunday unleashed a flood of analyst's notes With the fate of so many players at stake -- not just AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telekom (DT), but also Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S), Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT) and the other makers of Google...
J.D. Power: iPhone is tops for 5th time
Two Android phone makers lose ground in the most recent consumer satisfaction survey The iPhone's dominance of J.D. Power's semi-annual consumer satisfaction surveys has become so routine that the venerable marketing company's press release Thursday buried the news after six paragraphs about how owners who use their phones for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like...
