iTunes jackpot: Billions and billions
Apple has paid out more than $2 billion to developers, $12 billion to music labels Sometime in the next week or so, the zeros on the App Store countdown odometer will roll over and Apple (AAPL) will announce that 10 billion apps have been downloaded since the store opened two and a half years ago....
Android Tablets Abound At CES, But iPad Still Reigns Supreme [CES 2011]
LAS VEGAS, CES 2011 — Android tablets have a ways to go — that seems to be the emerging consensus here at CES. I couldn’t help but notice all the floor chatter going on while people were playing with any one of the dozens of...Windows on ARM official, but leaves many questions unanswered
So, Microsoft has made official what was rumored towards the end of last year: the next version of Windows will not only run on x86 processors, but also certain ARM ones. Specifically, it will support certain ARM system-on-chip (......
Munster: Apple’s lineup for 2011
Piper Jaffray's top Apple analyst offers his annual product predictions Apple (AAPL) is unlikely to break into any new hardware categories in 2011, according to a note to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. But that doesn't mean the company won't have a busy year. Here's what he sees as the major announcements...
Why digital newsstands stink
Who is to blame for declining sales of iPad magazines? Can Google do better? Much has changed in the eight months since Le Monde Magazine put Steve Jobs on the cover and asked whether he might be the new Gutenberg -- the man whose iPad would save the publishing industry from the menace of le...
The Island of Misfit Tablets
Organizers expect 40 to 80 iPad wannabees at next week's Consumer Electronics Show Barron's Tiernan Ray calls them the "tablet rat pack." AFP's Glenn Chapman compares them to an invading army. PC Mag's Tim Gideon says they seem to be multiplying "like gremlins." They're talking about the Apple (AAPL) iPad wannabees heading for the International...
The Valentine’s Day iPhone
Is Cupid's day the date for the long-awaited launch of an iPhone for Verizon? Here's how these rumors get started. Someone tipped off Peter Burrows at Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple (AAPL) was waiting until after next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch an iPhone for Verizon (VZ). Apparently his anonymous source or...
65 million iPads in 2011? Not likely.
An estimate based on chatter among touch-panel suppliers seems way out of line Several sites early Wednesday picked up a report from Taiwan-based DigiTimes that suppliers of 9.7 inch iPad touch-panel screens had received orders from Apple (AAPL) totaling 65 million units for 2011 -- 35 million for LG Display and 15 million each for...
iPad shipments set to hit 65 million in 2011 — report
Perhaps you’ve been wondering if Apple will feel much impact once those Android and Chrome-powered tablets ship in 2011 — now a pair of reports suggest the magical iPad is set to maintain dominance for some time yet. Report one tells us LG Display shipped 1.5 million iPad panels in November, while Samsung delivered 1.2...
Apple tops Amazon’s ‘most-gifted’ lists
Cupertino scores a clean sweep in tablets, laptops, desktops and portable music players It looks like another Apple (AAPL) Christmas on Amazon.com. As of Dec. 25, its products topped the most-gifted items in all the categories in which it competed except television and video products (where Roku reigned supreme). There were some discrepancies, however, between...
How Apple’s profits grew 70%
Asymco's Horace Dediu describes his latest graphic as "Apple's growth, cost structure, product-level and overall profitability in a self-explanatory chart," although judging from our experience and his readers' comments, the chart is not totally self-explanatory. The two halves of Dediu's graphic show Apple's (AAPL) fiscal fourth quarters for 2009 and 2010 (which he labels calendar...
Free shipping and Apple’s iPad help spark record online holiday sales
Despite the economy, Americans managed to spend $27.46 billion in 47 days Online sales in the U.S. are up 12% this holiday season, according to a comScore report issued Sunday, driven by two factors: Free shipping: Americans spent $942 million online Dec. 17, 61% more than they spent the same day last year, thanks to...
