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
, and that there wasn’t any slowdown in sales.
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…)
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Despite the growth of Google’s Android Market, Apple ‘s App Store is still the top dog among mobile app stores.
Looking at different app stores this past year, research firm Distimo found that Apple ‘s iPhone app store alone generated four times the revenue seen by Android Market. Apple ‘s iPad store came in second in the sales race.
The standings were compiled by looking at the total revenue (more…)
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The iPhone 4S was the top selling smartphone at all three of its U.S. carriers last month, but Samsung kept nipping at Apple ‘s heels, according to investment firm Canaccord Genuity.
All three models of the iPhones 4S (16GB, 32GB, and 64GB) grabbed strong sales and a higher market share in the U.S. last month, with a little help from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But so did Samsung’s Galaxy S II.
AT&T appears to be on track to break their previous quarterly records on smartphone sales, largely thanks to the popularity of the
.
AT&T announced in an online press release that it sold 6 million smartphones in the just the first two months of the fourth quarter. With some time left, it looks like it’s ready to beat its previous record of 6.1 million smartphones.
While December is traditionally a high-sales month because of the holidays, the (more…)
Apple ‘s patent woes worsen, as their lawsuit with Motorola Mobility has reached an interesting point. An initial ruling in Germany could prevent Apple from selling all versions of the
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FOSS Patents reports that this is the first “substantive” ruling on this case, as the
will be discussed at a hearing coming up in February.
), which describes a ”method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet (more…)
