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According to a recent ComScore survey, 49.1 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in May, up 8.1 percent from the corresponding February period. This is equivalent to 20.1 percent of…
2010.Realization that iPhone is a threat from new dimensions (user experience). Planning begins on reshaping the software base as a market-driven (not technology-driven) asset (5 year cycle). Apple begins to be evaluated…
In June 2008, Nokia made its first big move to turn around the platform, and announced that it was acquiring Symbian, with the intent of turning the OS into an open source project. Two years later, the move to open…
With the iPad still unavailable three months after its launch and with only 1.7 million iPhones available for purchase in the first three days, Apple’s inability to meet demand is surfacing as its most immediate and…
Verizon slashes Microsoft Kin phone prices • The Register. My guess is that Microsoft’s business model for the Kin was always to share revenues for Kin data plans. Trouble is that users won’t pay high monthly fees for…
With the recent iPhone 4 launch the media spotlight has faded on the iPad. However, the iPad is still missing in action at many (most? all?) Apple stores. I called four stores in the Boston area and they are only…
The third fiscal quarter is at an end and it’s time to estimate performance. Andy Zaky has kicked off earnings season with his detailed accounting of what could be a $63.5 billion year for Apple. I put forward below my…
Much has been made of the potential for Android to reduce the growth of iPhone. The iPhone seems to be doing very well and continuing to be supply rather than demand constrained. RIM however seems to be under significant…
Adding this all up, Microsoft has several mobile OS products in various stages of production, including As ZD blogger Mary Jo Foley noted recently, this fact is somewhat amusing in the wake of Microsoft CEO Steve…
RIMM shares dropped more than 5% after hours after company reported “light” units and a 20% rise in profit with a 24% rise in revenue. RIMM sold 11.2 million units (of which 4.9 million were new subscribers and the rest…