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Apple reached fourth place in ranking of top phone vendors by units sold. I guess that makes it a “top tier” vendor. So how did it get there? Here is a chart showing how market share evolved since the quarter when iPhone…
I am dead serious. I am now convinced that we have enough data to determine for a fact that Apple will not only see a dramatic decline in quarter-on-quarter sales in units of the iPhone this January-March quarter (which…
LG saw its profit fall apart today as its summer results were hurt by its weakness in phones. Its profit plunged 99 percent, down from $805.6 million a year ago to $6.7 million. The Korean company was dragged down by its…
Google likes to market itself as “Open” in contrast to “Closed” alternatives. Apple likes to market itself as “Integrated” in contrast to “Fragmented” alternatives. These dichotomies are judgmental and meant to portray…
Sales from its handset business climbed 20 percent to $2 billion last quarter, helping to narrow its loss to $43 million from $216 million a year earlier. The division had an operating profit, excluding some charges, of…
CHART OF THE DAY: If AT&T Is So Bad, Why Is It Beating Verizon Every Quarter?. AT&T just signed up 2.63 times more subs in Q3. They’ve been adding more subs every quarter since Q1 09. Another point is that both are…
One of the most hotly debated subjects in the mobile phone business is the importance of market share. It’s also a topic of lore in the PC industry. Briefly the two arguments are: The old disruptor’s adage: “Be hungry…
In the last article on the share of PCs highlighting the unwillingness of market analysts to categorize the disruptive iPad as a PC I imply that Gartner does not “get it”. This is partly willful and partly instinctive.…
Digitimes reports: only a handful of companies may get into WP7 when it arrives, they added. HTC may end up controlling 70 to 80 percent of the market simply by being one of the initial partners via Taiwan phone makers…
Social games on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices are competing for television viewers. In fact, these apps, tracked on the Flurry network alone, comprise of a daily audience of more than 19 million who spend over 22…