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Apple’s announcement of $60 million booked revenues for iAd, of which 60% is meant for developers implies $24 million operating profit for the second half of 2010. Assuming this rate doubles $100 million for 2011, it…
The data shows how growth is accelerating with the daily add rates for the periods above increasing from 46k/day to 191k/day. Credit to Turley Muller via MacObserver.com Finance Board.
My prediction is that sometime next year Apple will announce the 100 millionth iPhone OS device sold, making the iPhone the fastest selling platform in history. The iPhone will have been on the market for three years.…
JP Morgan is cited as sizing the US mobile display ad market at $250 million. This gives Apple 48% market share of the mobile ad market for second half of 2010.
The download rate has just shot up. It’s gone way above the song daily download rate.
Total sales: $1.43 billion Amount to developers: $1 billion Apps sold: 5 billion ASP: $0.29 My expectation was 4.9 billion by June 1. Apple is about on target.
Six months ago IDC predicted 300k apps before end of 2010. Here is a quick mid-year check: As of today there are around 215k available, with 250k likely approved by the end of WWDC. These are the stats from three app…
8:50 am: Walt circles back, notes that Ballmer uses the term PC to include things that most people don’t think of as PCs. Is the iPad a PC? Ballmer: Of course it is. What do you do on it? Answer email….A guy tried to…
Data tracking firm Nielsen Co.’s quarterly survey found that, in the U.S. the iPhone added two percentage points for a 28% market share in the three months ended in late March compared to the previous quarter. RIM still…
“And I think i’ve been quite public about the fact that I chose to make a set of leadership changes in the team of people building and executing on our Windows Phone software. “We had to do a little cleanup, change…