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Farshad
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Apples vs. Nokia in North America
Comparing US sales of iPhones vs. Nokia’s NA device business. AT&T iPhones activated in Q3: 3.2 million Nokia phones sold in North America Q3: 3.1 million (obviously, Nokia’s figures include Canada and Apple might have…
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Market Caps
For reference, some selected current market caps: The top 10 world-wide: Steve Ballmer is not worried, Apple is just a rounding error.
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Apple vs. Nokia on Profitability of Devices
Apple wiped the floor with Nokia. Twice the net profit and almost on par with gross profit. Nokia spent a whole billion dollars a quarter in R&D. The R&D take is 10.2% of sales.
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Peugeot Renault and Citroen
I’m trying explain the complete lack of interest in Nokia among the US blogging/early adopter audience. If you are an enthusiast, why do you not care about the market leader. The automotive analogy is not quite perfect,…
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You Can’t Touch This
Apple’s Q4 2009 conference call revealed that iPod touch sales were up 100% year over year. For the full fiscal year, iPhone grew 78%.
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Tim "Corleone" Cook
When asked more pointedly, “So when you go from exclusive to multiple, you don’t change the charge to the carrier?” Cook answered, “Correct.” Apple has more pricing power than the Don.
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iPhone Money Trail
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s Chief Financial Officer, said that the Average Selling Price of iPhones in the quarter “was just over $600. This reflects both high mix of 3GS sellthrough and benefits of rebalancing the ending…
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100k Apps
On Tuesday Apple will cross over 100,000 apps on the App Store for an installed base of ~50 million devices. On Thursday Microsoft will launch Windows 7 with 8500 apps “certified” for an installed base of 1 billion PCs.…
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On Units and Platforms
When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold…