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The next 100 million iOS devices
As iOS crosses 100 million units sold 3 years after the platform launched, it’s time to look forward to the next 100 million. My expectation is that well over 100 million iOS devices will sell during 2011, but even…
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asymco | One Hundred Million
My prediction is that sometime next year Apple will announce the 100 millionth iPhone OS device sold, making the iPhone the fastest selling platform in history. The iPhone will have been on the market for three years.…
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The Next Billion Users
Five weeks ago Apple forecast 100 million iPhone OS devices will be sold by summer. This was fairly easy to predict but the question comes up: when will the next 100 million be sold? And what about after that? The iPhone…
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Mark Bernstein: Platform Control
And somewhere in the recovery was a moment when Apple stood on a hill, before the setting sun, and shook its fist at the heavens and vowed that it would never be hungry (and powerless) again Never again would another…
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41 million BlackBerry users
“Officials at the WES 2010 keynote said that RIM has redesigned all of the core applications within the BlackBerry operating system. It also revealed that there are 41 million BlackBerry users, and 90 million BlackBerrys…
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The Progress of the Platform
The Progress of the Platform. On why there is a ban on intermediate layers of software development on the iPhone OS. But the reason isn’t technical. It’s partly business (Apple doesn’t want another company to control any…
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Smartphone Penetration in the US
This is active users in the US only. iPhone now tops WinMo and is second only to RIM. The only line that is going down is the dumbphone category which lost 10 million users. Those users were mostly switched to RIM and…
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On Units and Platforms
When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold…