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The (iPod)Touch(i)Pad
The world’s largest PC company just launched a “media tablet[1]”. Conflating the iPod Touch and iPad brands into “TouchPad” HP joins RIM in announcing an integrated OS/device product to compete as a platform vs. iOS and…
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Nostalgia
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Steve Jobs on Apple's priorities
To me, Apple exists in the spirit of the people that work there, and the sort of philosophies and purpose by which they go about their business. So if Apple just becomes a place where computers are a commodity item and…
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Unforeseeable growth: Analyst failure on iPad as indicator of disruptive change
Professional analysts’ first year iPad unit forecasts (sourced from TMO Finance Board) Here are the predictions from Tech Bloggers: Apple sold 14.8 million iPads in 2010. I sometimes use the phrase “unforeseeable growth”…
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Nokia's UK managing director resigns
Nokia’s Uk managing director Mark Loughran reckons that the Nokia N97 will prove superior to the iPhone due to its significantly better camera sensor, lower tariffs and its radical change in styling and especially form…
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Gartner Predicts Mobile OS Market Share
Lots of people apparently think it’s a big deal that Gartner is predicting Android will surpass iOS for second place. But why is that necessarily a good thing, given that they’re predicting Symbian will remain in first…
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Apple sales by product line
The following chart shows the value of sales per quarter (in $million) since the beginning of 2005. What’s interesting to note is that more than half of sales is contributed by products which did not exist three years…
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Remembering netbooks
“That market is falling off a cliff,” said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Rodman & Remshaw, of the netbook sector. “It cannibalized notebooks and simultaneously all it has done is accelerate a price decline.” Saripella…
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40 percent of US iPhones are sold to enterprises
Four out of 10 sales of the iPhone are made to enterprise users. When the iPhone came out, what most people heard in the first year from ‘07 to ‘08 was oh my God, it’s not BlackBerry secure. This is not going to work on…
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Will Apple rule the iPad market? (part II)
Continuing from Will Apple rule the iPad market? | Asymco. The first claim is that it is unclear if [Apple] will end up dominating the market the way it has come to rule the digital music player market with the iPod.…
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Will Apple rule the iPad market?
This question sounds like a tautology. It’s like asking “Will Apple rule the iPod market?” But redundancy has not stopped WSJ journalist Benjamin Pimentel from asking. His answer to the question is below: But while Apple…