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During the iPhone 5 launch event, Apple announced 435 million iTunes accounts (with credit card numbers) with one click shopping. The account total is updated occasionally by Apple and the history of these updates is…
The most remarkable thing about the iPhone as a technology product is that it has been able to maintain pricing stability for over five years. As the following chart shows, the revenues per unit sold for the iPhone (as…
The iPhone 4S sold about 4 million units in the first three days of availability last year. The iPhone 4 sold about 1.7 million and iPhone 3GS about 1 million. The main driver to growth for the initial weekend is usually…
Amazon will sell as many Kindles as they make, but the number they will make will not be the most they could make. The logic of selling a product which has a profit model unrelated to the cost of goods sold is tricky.…
The US has reached 50% smartphone penetration. comScore data shows July penetration at 48.8% and a monthly growth in penetration of nearly 2 percentage points. Given the rate of growth, it’s nearly certain that we’ve…
It looks like the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 5. What’s in a name? As it turns out, quite a lot. Every hardware product that Apple has released has had a brand and a sub-brand. Macs for example use the Mac…
This interview was conducted with Bruno Ferrari Editor of Exame magazine in Brazil. First, do you have forecasts for tablet market share including Microsoft for next years? (Apple, Android, Amazon etc)? I have some…
Last September I argued against the potential of the Kindle Fire acting as a low end disruption in the tablet market. Now that the first version of the product has reached is end of life, it’s time to review the…
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. makes for powerful courtroom drama. Calling it drama, however, is faint praise. It’s entertaining and thrilling but the effects are shallow and they don’t last. I have been…
A 2 minute video introduction on how I use Perspective to create interactive presentations: [vimeo 47865727 w=442]