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Research shows Apple customers buy more apps, pay more for them

by Mike Schramm (Jul 11th, 2011)

A new report by analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray says that not only are Apple users buying more apps this year than in previous years, but they're also generally paying more for them. The average iPhone user will buy 83 apps in 2011, according to Munster's research, which is 61% more than ...

Mac sales still up, despite iPad release

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2010)

If the iPad is going to cut away at the audience for more full-featured computers, it's not going to be the Mac audience, apparently. Even though Apple introduced a tablet earlier this year, Mac sales are still up 35%, showing that the iPad is much more a new category all to itself than a subset of ...

Munster: Apple developing a search engine

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2010)

The great prognosticator Gene Munster (who spends his days working as an analyst at Piper Jaffray) has another guess at Apple's future for us: a search engine. He says there's a 70% chance that Apple will create its own search engine within the next five years -- right after that HDTV that he ...

Apple to make an HDTV within two to four years?

by Mike Schramm (Mar 24th, 2010)

The famous Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, has another wacky prediction for us: within the next two years, he says, Apple will release a connected HDTV. Unlikely, to say the least -- the thinking around the virtual TUAW offices is that Munster's way off base on this one. Not only is ...

Analysts: iMac to take over 25% of PC sales, Mac to see 31% growth

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2010)

We're only days away from the release of the iPad, and that means analysts are doing crazy business -- they're laying out as many predictions as they can before theory becomes actual numbers. Our friend Gene Munster is first -- he says that despite the introduction of a brand new category, Mac sales ...

First iPad sales estimates: four million this year, double that in 2011

by Chris Rawson (Jan 27th, 2010)

Even though the device won't be released for another two months, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has been quick to revise his sales estimates for the iPad. His former estimate of 1.9 million units sold in the first 12 months was based on an estimated average price tag of $600; now that we know the ...

Rumor: Apple event in January, possible 10" tablet demoing iPhone apps

by Mike Schramm (Dec 23rd, 2009)

There's a flurry of rumors this morning that Apple is planning an event as soon as this January, though exactly what they'll be showing us is still in question. Most of the buzz (along with our buddy Gene Munster) says we will finally see the long-awaited tablet, and that after a January ...

Overall Mac sales up 21%, desktops up 74% year over year

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2009)

There's probably a number of reasons why this might have happened (and we're sure you can come up with more than we can), but nevertheless, here you go: overall Mac sales are up by 21 percent in October and November since last year at the same time, according to Gene Munster (not pictured), analyst ...

Analyst: Walmart will sell 4.5 million iPhones in 2009

by Mike Schramm (Dec 12th, 2008)

Which hardly seems believable, but you never know. Yes, Walmart, that bastion of crass commercialism, is going to be carrying the iPhone, that symbol of elegant commercialism, and what we're going to get is a whole lot of commercialism. Analyst Gene Munster (our favorite prognosticator other than ...

Leopard: All signs point to 10/26

by Mike Schramm (Oct 9th, 2007)

Does anyone else think it's a little crazy that we're already 1/4 of the way through October and we still don't have an official release date for Leopard? It'll almost assuredly be at the very end of the month, but in terms of date and time, no one has an official clue. For a Piper Jaffray analyst, ...