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  1. Apple Fourth Quarter Estimates

    · · Research

    As Philip Elmer-DeWitt is still interested in my estimates I provided the following: Revenues ($B) 57.8 EPS ($) 14 (908m shares) iPhone (units) 56.4 million iPod (units) 7.6 million Mac (units) 4.14 million iPad (units)…

  2. When Apple reached parity with Windows

    · · Research

    In 2013 there were 18.8 times more Windows PCs sold than Macs. This is a reduction in the Windows advantage from about 19.8x in 2012. This decline is mostly due to the more rapid decline in Windows PC shipments relative…

  3. Of bits and big bucks

    · · Research

    Exactly one year ago, on January 7th, 2013, Apple announced that the App Store reached 40 billion downloads ((Unique downloads excluding re-downloads and updated)). Here are additional data points from that release: This…

  4. When will smartphones saturate?

    · · Research

    GSMA Intelligence reports provide valuable statistics on the growth of mobile networks. One in particular shows the history of regional smartphone penetration. I took the historic data and plotted it as follows: Note…

  5. The Critical Path #108: Chief Magical Officer

    · · Podcast

    With new ChromeOS and Chromebook data, Horace returns us to the topic of Google. How do they define and view their customers, products, and businesses? Who actually serves whom? What user data is collected, how is it…

  6. On the future of the Internet and everything

    · · Research

    According to ITU data, Internet usage reached about 2.2% penetration in the US (2.2 users per 100 residents) in 1993. The figure in 2012 was 81%. The history of penetration is shown in the following graphs. Similar…

  7. The China Mobile iPhone MOQ

    · · Research

    “BEIJING and CUPERTINO, California—December 22, 2013—Apple® and China Mobile today announced they have entered into a multi-year agreement to bring iPhone® to the world’s largest mobile network. As part of the agreement,…

  8. Screen Time #49: The Next Stage

    · · Podcast

    I join Moisés to discuss 4K, 8K, and the future of the displays we use to consume our content. Will presentation quality ever be “king” again, or is cheap, short, indexable content the new ideal? We dive a bit more into…