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I’ve postponed my estimates for the fourth calendar for a long time. The reason is that there have been conflicting data to deal with and I’ve been hoping for some clues to give clarity. Unfortunately, even though I…
50% penetration for smartphones in the US turned out to be fairly predictable. I tracked my predictions based on comScore data and the results are shown in the following graph. I began making predictions in May 2010 and…
During the last 12 months 31 million American phone users abandoned the use of feature phones. During the last 24 months over 60 million switched. Over 550k users are switching every week and this rate of switching has…
Digitimes Research published an estimate of the allocation of production of application processors by Samsung. It suggests that Apple will transition away from Samsung as a processor supplier during 2013 and stop…
If you are available January 29th and/or 30th in the San Jose area we could use your help. We need eight people to help with registration, microphone relay, guides. We also need five people to act as Camera Operators –…
We recommend staying at the Hayes Mansion 200 Edenvale Avenue, San Jose, CA 95136 Phone: +1 866.981.3300 The workshops will be held here on January 29th. (Three One more workshop seats are available). Update: Workshops…
comScore released one of its rare updates to the EU5 (Spain, UK, France, Italy and Germany) smartphone market. Note that the data is claiming to show installed base and not sales in any particular period. What interests…
How much does it cost to have the world’s best maps? The answer may seem simple: $8.1 billion. That was the cost to Nokia in cash for buying Navteq in October 2007. It would seem that buying that asset (or another one…
When the iPhone 5 launched Apple promised availability in 100 countries before the end of year. This was a very aggressive plan given the gradual release of previous products. Last year the iPhone 4S only arrived in…
Early data shows that the PC market has not experienced a “pop” from Windows 8. Market watchers have been anticipating this pop since every previous version of Windows has led to a surge in shipments. PC vendors have…