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The iPhone 4S launch in China did not go quite as Apple had planned.
Throngs of people are a norm for new product launches at Apple , but the gaggle of scalpers trying to hustle the system caused Apple to delay sales, earning its stores an egg wash and plenty of animosity. Now, after implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple has resumed selling the device online and will ship by (more…)
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Apple won the smartphone wars last quarter, but Samsung was close behind in second place, according to Juniper Research.
Buoyed by the iPhone 4S, Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the December quarter, giving the company a 25 percent share of the market.
Though Samsung lost its top perch, the Korean handset maker still managed to carve out a 21.7 percent share thanks to healthy demand (more…)
Yesterday, we were quite surprised when
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that prevented the sale of 3G iOS devices that infringed on Motorola’s patent.
1. How much royalty is Motorola demanding from Apple for the standard-essential wireless patents?
Apple had tried to use the “FRAND” defense, claiming that the patent was essential to the 3G standard and needed “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” terms for licensing it, but had failed to convince the judge last time (more…)
After Apple ‘s historic holiday quarter, Wall Street analysts (for the most part) are champing at the bit to raise predictions for AAPL, citing overwhelmingly strong iPhone and iPad sales last year and high expectations for new product releases this year.
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According to a report by The Apple Blog, several analysts think Apple is still on the rise, giving its stock evaluation (more…)
Holiday earnings reports are being posted, and Verizon’s indicates that more than half of its smartphone sales were iPhones.
This resulted in a revenue surge for its wireless division, but because of heavy subsidies, an overall decline in profits.
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Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said in a report by CNNMoney the loss is OK in Verizon’s eyes, noting that Verizon’s (more…)
AT&T has just announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011. AT&T reports that it sold a record 9.4 million smartphones in the last quarter, of which not surprisingly 7.6 million were
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AT&T delivered its best-ever smartphone sales quarter — up nearly 60 percent from the year-ago period. (
Smartphones are devices with voice and data capabilities and an advanced operating system to better manage data and Internet access.)
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During Apple ‘s quarterly earnings call, the company’s CEO, Tim Cook, said that the
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Apple had, to begin with, not expressed much concern over the Kindle Fire,
of an already fragmented Android tablet market.
Apple sold more than 15 million iPads in a span of just three months starting from October last year. The Kindle Fire started shipping in the middle of November, so the
correctly represent (more…)
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Apple has pulled the plug on iPhone 4S sales in mainland China after unruly crowds hurled eggs at the company’s flagship store in Beijing.
Hundreds of people had waited in line overnight to grab the new phone at the Santilun outlet (English translation) in Beijing, only to find out in the morning that Apple had decided not to open the store in light of safety issues over the huge throngs of people, (more…)
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Apple may have sold more than 12 million iPhones in the U.S. alone during the last three months of 2011, says Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.
Sales heated up across all three of the phone’s U.S. carriers. Although Verizon kept pushing its new 4G LTE phones, the carrier racked up record iPhone sales of 4.2 million for the quarter, more than double the number sold in the previous quarter.
made it into the App Store in time for Christmas and ahead of the iTunes Connect freeze.
Apple freezes its approval process over Christmas each year. New York Times points out:
In the weeks leading up to the cutoff, developers often pull all-nighters so they can get their work to Apple in time.
“There’s a mad scramble for developers,” said Marc Edwards, lead designer at Bjango, an Australian app maker. “In terms of money, it can be a (more…)
