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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…
Horace is still out crossing the globe on secret missions, so Moisés Chiullan, host of Screen Time, fills in for Dan. This week, Horace covers his Swipe Conference presentation on the history of personal computing and…
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.…
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My Swipe keynote presentation is available as a free Perspective download. Swipe Conference 2012 Keynote. In it I present the history of personal computing and the shift to new platforms that foreshadows the dawn of a…
A recorded interview Peter Wells at Swipe Conference. We discuss the rise and fall of the PC, and some of the parallels that can be drawn from the rise of mobile platforms today. Which mobile platforms are destined to…
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…
With Horace criss-crossing the globe on various secret missions, Moisés Chiullan, host of Screen Time, fills in for Dan this week. In this episode, Horace follows up on last week’s predictions now that the Apple v.…
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…