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The following chart shows the net gains in users for the major mobile platforms in the US. The data is derived from comScore’s MobiLens report. The raw numbers for the last period (ending May) are: The “churn” or percent…
The latest comScore MobiLens is out and it allows an update to the picture of the US phone using population. Through the three month period ending May 2011, smartphones were in use by 76.8 million or about one in three…
An interview with Horace Dediu. Curiously, given the high specs, I find myself using only an iPad for a week (without access to AC current).
Windows Phone Marketplace has reached 25,000 apps. That’s an impressive figure given that so few devices have actually been sold. Compared with Android which is activating half a million devices per day, Windows Phone…
The Critical Path #3: It’s Good to Be King – 5by5. July 3, 2011 at 6:00pm Horace Dediu and Dan Benjamin discuss the power of cash to control supply chains in the post-PC era and how Apple is challenging conventional…
About 10 years ago I met an advertising executive in New York who explained the difficulty of advertising a new brand of deodorant to consumers. “Most people never change their deodorant,” I remember him saying. “They…
During the last WWDC Apple revealed that there were 54 million active Mac users. If we look at the history of the product we can see that it took about 5.5 years to sell 54 million Macs. If we assume therefore that the…
My thanks to Robert van Apeldoorn, journalist for Trends Tendances Magazine, for asking good questions. My responses are reproduced below. The article (in French) is titled “Nokia a trop écouté les réseaux télécoms” and…
Ever since the iPhone launched four years ago (to the day), the question on everyone’s mind has been: When will Apple expand the portfolio to reach into all market segments? I remember thinking in 2007 whether it would…
Технологии и наука | Хорацио Дедиу: Никой не иска да купи Research In Motion RIM – Капитал. My thanks again to Andrian Georgiev for interview questions [Bulgarian] related to RIM. My answers to his questions (in English)…