Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011
Source: Canalys
Canalys singled out Apple (AAPL) for special mention Friday when it announced that by its count, shipments of smartphones in 2011 overtook those of client computers, even when tablets are included.
"Apple's impressive end to the year resulted in it becoming the...
A Taiwanese impersonator brings out the worst in Apple's critics and fans
Homage or sacrilege?
It's hard to say which is worse, the tasteless appropriation of Steve Jobs' trademark jeans and black turtleneck -- with added halo and angel wings -- to hawk a technology he famously dismissed as "shit," or the kinds of things people are...
Chief complaints: lack of volume control or camera and that the battery life's too short
Click to enlarge. Source: 451 Research
They liked the price, the color screen and the selection of books on Amazon (AMZN). They wish it had a volume control button and a camera and that the battery lasted longer.
Those are some of the...
The 28-year-old expo has a new brand, a new focus and hundreds of fizzy new products
Macworld|iWorld graphic via IDG World Expo
When Apple (AAPL) announced in 2008 that it was pulling out of Macworld -- no longer exhibiting its products or staging Steve Jobs' closely-watched keynotes -- many wondered whether the venerable expo could survive.
It was...
Nothing but praise -- after the ship had sailed -- from folks who totally missed the boat
Chart: MacRumors.com
A sampling of what Wall Street had to say overnight about Apple's (AAPL) first fiscal quarter earnings report:
Barclay's Ben Reitzes: No "Law of Large Numbers" Here. The upside Apple posted for the December quarter was beyond all of our most...
Humiliated by a bunch of bloggers, amateur analysts and assorted day traders
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With revenues that grew 73% and earnings that more than doubled, Apple (AAPL) proved Tuesday that the fourth quarter results that so disappointed Wall Street last fall were a fluke. The company that Steve Jobs built is still that rare beast in...
Shares jump nearly 9% in after-hours trading on record sales of $46.33 billion, record profit of $13 billion, record 37 million iPhones, 15.4 million iPads, 5.2 million Macs
Everybody was counting on Apple (AAPL) to report record earnings, but nobody -- not even the most bullish independent analysts -- predicted anything like the blowout the company...
Tablets — especially iPads — were hot holiday gifts. A new survey finds that in about just one week, the percentage of U.S. consumers owning a tablet almost doubled to 19 percent, up from 10 percent prior to Christmas Day. That portion was even...Averaging the Q1 2012 estimates of the six analysts with the best track records
Whisper numbers, according to Wikipedia, emerge from widening cracks in the spreadsheets maintained by Wall Street analysts. Quoting an article by Daniel Svensson, the entry explains:
"When the estimate is first calculated by sell-side analysts, the number is submitted to companies such as...
The 18% gap between the Street's estimates and the independents' suggests that it can
Click to enlarge. Data: Company reports, Apple 2.0
Last fall, a Wall Street analyst who shall remain nameless suggested in a note to clients that the days of the big Apple (AAPL) earnings surprises may be over.
He was referring to the string of...
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