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That time of the week when analyst predictions comes in to please us
The latest word from the analyst stable is that Apple will beat RIM in the samartphone marketshare sometime in 2011. iPhone has been a superhit ever since it was introduced in 2007 and it still remains a white horse for [...]
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While we still cry for the launch of iPhone 3G S in India, here is an interesting statistics from AdMob. AdMob is the world leader in Mobile advertising and you must have noticed their Ads in many free iPhone apps. According to the usage data available with Admob, the maximum usage of iPhone / iPod [...]
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When Apple announced the first iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs himself set a target that the Jesus phone would sell 10 million units in 2008. While he did achieve that with many months to go in 2008 (ofcourse with a new $199 pricing for the iPhone 3G to help him). Fast forward to 2009 and [...]
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Carphone Warehouse has revised its profit estimates for this fiscal year thanks to the rise in demand of touchscreen handsets. Mobile market is growing faster than the computer for some time now and the effect is surely showing with telecom players scoring high.
Carphone’s profit before tax for first fiscal half year has jumped from £65 [...]
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With the stock shortage that Apple is facing in reaching out the iPhone 3GS across the globe, you sure didn’t expect any bad news here? Apple has just release the official numbers for Q4 and another record earnings it is. Here are a few quick notes:
Cheaper pricing has resulted in Macbooks taking up 74% share [...]
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WOW! Thats blazing speed and widening the gap every passing minute for the competition. Apple iTunes App Store has crossed 2 billion app downloads (and it does not include updates) in just over a year of existence. With over 50million iPhones and iPod touch out in the market these figures will keep on pouring in [...]
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We are surely in a smartphone boom. With more and more companies jumping into smartphone production and the great number of business phones that are being produced today, some predictions (estimates) which would have been termed wild a while back, looks so real now.
The Apple iPhone is growing faster than Apple’s own imagination, such that [...]
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According to the list compiled by Digitimes, Apple iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 3G make it within the top 5 best selling smartphones in US (in Q2-2009).
The iPhone 3GS finds the second spot, trailing the Blackberry curve series, while the iPhone 3G takes the 4th spot behind the Blackberry pearl series. Interestingly RIM Blackberry finds [...]
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Apple has announced its Q3 results and its another billion dollar in profits. Apple has managed to up its profits, margins and sales compared to last year and they certainly prove it again that they beat recession with ‘innovative products’.
iPhone sales during Q3 was at 5.2million units (this certainly got a good push with the [...]
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The survey of 2300 retail stores by Nikkei.net revealed that iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB are the #1 and #2 smartphones in Japan respectively.
Not very convincing to me, but it seems that iPhone 3G 8GB is the most popular (as per sales) smartphone in Japan. Earlier we had reports of extremely poor sales of iPhone [...]
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No wonder their servers were strained! Apple has seen 6 million downloads for the iPhone 3.0 firmware since its release on 17th June and has sold 1million iPhone 3GS’ in just 2 days. This includes many online pre – orders that Apple was accepting for the 3GS.
Interestingly the Press Release we received quotes a comment [...]
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Apple has managed to raise its market share with the Apple iPhone to 1.5%, that’s up 0.4% from Q1 (2008 end) which has them at 1.1%. With just 1 model out in the market (the iPhone 3G), this is a superb performance from Apple.
Apple has sold 3.79 million iPhone’s in Q1 of 2009 (more on [...]
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Last we heard from Apple during the OS 3.0 unveiling about 17million iPhone being sold worldwide (1st gen and 3G combined), and here comes the confirmation that Apple has now crossed the 20million mark with 21million iPhones sold. AT&T has also reported 1.6million more activations in Q2.
Apple has sold 793,000 iPhones between Jan-March i.e. Q2 [...]
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Craig Berger predicts that Apple is indeed preparing the iPhone Nano for a Q2 2009 release. With recession leaving its impact on the Tech industry a cheaper iPhone would be preferred alongwith a cheaper Macbook and might well be an instant Hit (something Apple is now used to).
Monitoring the Apple supply chain [...]
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iPhone in India is overpriced (Yes we know that); and if Business Today is to be believed the iPhone sales in India is as low as 4000 units in three months (The loans didnt help!). Though they didn’t hire any actors to que up; but the amount of outdoor advertising and hype created seems to [...]
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Last year Q4 Apple sold 1.1m iPhones, This year q$ ending 30th Sept its 6.9 million. This is what we call the iPhone 3G $199 effect!
iPhone Atlast gets the figures in place:
June 2007: 0.3 million (it was only on sale for two days in this quarter)
Sept. 2007: 1.1 million
Dec. 2007: 2.3 million
Mar. [...]
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WOW! Compared to just 1.1million iPhones sold in the same period last year, Apple has made a significant jump! iPhone 3G + SDK + AppStore has done it for Apple. With further impending release of iPhones in several countries, we expect the momentum to continue.
In less than 2 years, iPhone now contributes 39 % of [...]
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Apple has reportedly sold over 3 million (30 lac) iPhone 3G handsets worldwide since launch. The sales has been more than expected, and it is speculated that Apple has placed orders for sourcing additional Memory chips from its suppliers.
The hype created by the first gen iPhone (which didn’t make it to most countries outside the [...]
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