Apple may not be the world’s leading mobile phone maker but its cut of both profits and sales puts it firmly at the top.

Though it holds only around 9 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple raked in 75 percent of all profits across the industry last quarter, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu.

That left rival Samsung with 16 percent of the profit pie, RIM with 3.7 percent, HTC with 3 percent, (more…)

According to a report by the New York Times, nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha comes from Siri, Apple ‘s voice-controlled personal assistant software.

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Apple announced a partnership with Wolfram Alpha in October when it released the iPhone 4S and introduced Siri. Wolfram Alpha differs from other search engines in that its results are based on data curated (more…)

The disparity between Apple ‘s phone market share and profits has been known since quite some time. Asymco’s Horace Dediu illustrates this disparity via charts, taking into account the latest numbers from all phone manufacturers.
His findings?
Apple accounts for 75 percent of the total profits of the mobile phone industry with a mere 9 percent marketshare. Samsung came in a distant next with 16 percent profits, followed by RIM at 3.7 percent and (more…)

Despite a drop in December, Apple ‘s iOS remained the top platform for mobile browsing, according to the latest stats from NetApplications.

Throughout December, iOS’s Safari carved out a 52 percent share of the mobile market, down from 54 percent in November and 61 percent in October, but still in the lead. Google’s Android browser ended December with a 16 percent share, a dip from the prior two months.

Drilling down further, (more…)

NetApplications' data for the mobile market in December.

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Despite a drop in December, Apple ‘s iOS remained the top platform for mobile browsing, according to the latest stats from NetApplications.

Throughout December, iOS carved out a 52 percent share of the mobile market, down from 54 percent in November and 61 percent in October, but still in the lead. Google’s Android ended (more…)

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If you used an iPhone or iPad to buy something online on Christmas, you had plenty of company.

Among all online purchases made on Christmas Day, 7 percent were done through an iPad and 6.4 percent through an iPhone , giving iOS devices 13.4 percent of all online purchases that day.

Eyeing online sales across 500 retailers on December 25 and 26, IBM’s latest holiday benchmark report found (more…)

To reboot (i.e. reset) your iDevice, hold down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons for about 10 seconds.

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iOS isn’t perfect. There, I said it. This will become evident to anyone who’s ever tried to figure out Notification Center or organize contacts into groups.

And I guarantee that at some point or another, you’ve installed a shiny new app, only to have it crash on you, either (more…)

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According to a new analysis from Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty, Apple has yet to explore nearly 67 percent of the potential iPhone market in Asia.

The analysis, presented in a note to investors, suggests that only 22 percent of Asian carriers are selling Apple ‘s iPhone . Asian carriers represent nearly 10 percent of world’s highest smartphone penetration demographic (25- to 34-year-olds), about (more…)

Research firm Gartner has come out with its quarterly estimates of worldwide mobile phone sales for the third quarter of 2011.
Although global mobile device sales saw an increase of merely 5.6 percent over last year, the growth in smartphone sales was an impressive 42 percent YoY. 26 percent of the total phones sold last quarter were smartphones.
The key figure, however, was Android’s share of the total smartphone sales for the last quarter. (more…)

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Just a few weeks after its debut, iOS 5 finds itself nestled on almost 40 percent of iPhones, according to stats from online ad network Chitika.

Analyzing iOS traffic on its own mobile network from October 22 to October 28, Chitika broke down the percentage of iOS 5 upgrades among Apple ‘s three major mobile devices: the iPhone , iPad, and iPod Touch.

The iPhone came in first, with 38 percent (more…)