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The iPad units numbers were not a surprise (except perhaps to some of the professional analysts who do not read Apple’s press releases). Among the more accurate (amateur) analysts, the range was from 3.2 to 3.45 million…
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results. I was surprised by the poor predictions of Mac units by the analyst community with estimates ranging from 2.86 million to 3.51. It was fairly clear to me early in the quarter that the…
Calling the iPhone this quarter was going to be a challenge. This was a transition quarter where an old lead model would be replaced with a new one. The launch of the iPhone 4 was going to affect the volumes, but nobody…
Losses from mobile phones totaled 120 billion won ($101 million) in the second quarter, compared with profit of 620 billion won a year earlier, Seoul-based LG said in a statement today. The loss, the division’s first in…
MacDailyNews – Yankee Groups Howe sets the record straight on Apple iPhone and Android devices. • No other manufacturer can claim nearly the loyalty of iPhone owners. RIM BlackBerry owners see a touch-screen device as…
Earnings Smackdown: The best and worst Apple analysts – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech. From the data above, it’s clear that although my accuracy on units and sales was pretty good, my EPS was too high. The reason for this was…
From Apple’s FQ3 press release: “Apple sold 3.47 million Macs during the quarter, representing a new quarterly record and a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 8.4 million iPhones in the…
Apple just had its best quarter ever with net income rising 78 percent to $3.51 per share. Revenue rose 61 percent, to $15.7 billion. On average, Wall Street analysts had expected Apple to report net income of $3.12 a…
The LA Times: The Droid X comes loaded with several nonstandard applications for Google’s Android, most of which cannot be removed. Among the phone’s so-called junkware is a Blockbuster video app and a demo for an…
Customers’ biggest complaint about the iPhone 4: They can’t buy one, because it’s sold out. via AppleInsider | Jobs calls Bloomberg story ‘total bull,’ says NYT ‘making things up’. This has also been my complaint and…