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iAd adds up to a lot of cash
“The average user spends over 30 minutes every day using apps on their phone. If we said we wanted to put an ad up every 3 minutes, that’s 10 ads per device per day. That would be 1b ad opportunities per day.” This is…
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Apple sells 450,000 iPads in 5 days, users download 3.5 million apps
Apple said Thursday that it has shipped over 450,000 iPads since the device went on sale this past Saturday, spurring 3.5 million app downloads for the new tablet device by its earliest adopters. via AppleInsider | Apple…
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One billion apps downloaded in 93 days
A bit less than one year ago, on April 23rd 2009, Apple reported 1 billion apps downloaded. 158 days later, on September 28th 2009, Apple reported 2 billion apps downloaded. 99 days later, on January 5th 2010, Apple…
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iPod now 41% of iPhone OS ecosystem
“We’ve sold over 50m iPhones to date, and if you add the touch, over 85m iPhones and iPod touches. If you’re a dev, that’s a plum market to go after.” iPods now make up 41% of the iPhone ecosystem. This number has been…
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Apple pre-announces at least 7.5 million iPhones sold in Q1
Today Steve Jobs stated that 50 million iPhones were sold to date. According to SEC filings, since about 42.5 million sold as of end of 2009, it follows that about 7.5 million units shipped in the first quarter. That…
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Another revolution: a new priority in the BOM
“Conventional notebook PCs are ‘motherboard-centric,’ with all the other functions in the system—-such as the display, the keyboard and audio—-peripheral to the central microprocessor and the main printed circuit board…
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Nokia Tablet?
“Getting a strong Intel backing here could be an important advantage,” says MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen, who sees the Nokia tablet as part of an array of mobile computers. via Nokia Aims a Tablet at Apple:…
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iPad component costs estimated at $260
AppleInsider | iPad component costs adjusted, estimated to cost Apple $260. It looks like 50% gross margin across the product range is a good estimate.
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The Mobile Web vs. the Objective-C Web
At one point in time, J2ME (now Java ME) and WAP were the starting points for a discussion on mobile strategy and the web. Then, for a brief period of time, you talked about HTML/CSS. Now, for a growing majority of…
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Google and Microsoft swap mobile share
according to a report published Monday. ComScore reported that Google’s share of smartphone subscribers rose to 9%, compared to 3.8% at the end of November. Meanwhile Apple’s share fell 0.1 points to 25.4%, while…