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Goldman Sachs sees iPad demand slowing

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2011)

Almost two years after the iPad launch, Goldman Sachs reports that demand is slowing down, just as the holiday shopping season begins. "While improving holiday demand into late November could certainly push the momentum in the other direction, we believe it is prudent to assume the iPad is ...

Apple shares huge iPhone sales and approval numbers

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2011)

Tim Cook, subdued as he is today, was probably most excited this morning when talking about just how well the iPhone has done lately. The iPhone 4 specifically, says Cook, has continued to sell like crazy, and in fact now makes up half of the sales of the iPhone in total, overcoming both the ...

Objective-C rocketing up the TIOBE charts

by Mike Schramm (Sep 6th, 2011)

The TIOBE index is a chart of what have been rated as the most popular programming languages in the world, according to various searches online, the number of experts in those languages, and even software output (though it is very certainly not a strict chart of "most lines written"). ...

Nielsen study shows climbing iPhone sales in the US

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2011)

Nielsen has released the results of a new survey of mobile phone users in the US, and the word (almost) all around is growth. More and more people are buying smartphones, and while Android currently sits in the most popular smartphone spot (with 38% of smartphone owners holding Android ...

Flipboard daily usage higher than ever, triples in two months

by Mike Schramm (May 11th, 2011)

Despite losing truckloads of money, iPad magazine The Daily is apparently seeing a lot of traffic, and content aggregation app Flipboard is seeing the same trend. CEO Mike McCue says the company is seeing a huge slope upwards in traffic, with an average of 8 to 9 million "flips" (essentially ...

Foxconn owner reports revenue up thanks to iPad 2, other devices

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 17th, 2011)

Hon Hai Precision, the parent company of Foxconn, recorded an impressive revenue increase in its latest earnings report thanks to the iPad 2, the original iPad and the Kinect. According to the Taiwan Economic News, the manufacturing company reported revenue of NT$152.878 billion (about US$5.2 ...

Analyst: The Mac isn't done growing yet

by David Quilty (Nov 9th, 2010)

Granted, I probably could have told you this news without hiring a think tank, but now we know for sure; there is still plenty of room for Apple to continue to grow. With Apple's market cap now larger than Walmart's and market research firm IDC reporting that growth continued to expand in 2009, this ...

iShred jumps up the charts thanks to viral video

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2010)

Last Saturday, we posted this video of the band Atomic Tom singing with their iPhones on the B train over the East River. Since then, the video has gone viral, nabbing more than a million views on YouTube. But the band isn't the only group benefiting from the attention -- we heard from the ...

Apple market share climbs to 6.8% in Europe

by Mike Schramm (May 27th, 2010)

Hardmac is reporting that Apple's market share in Europe has risen to 6.8%. That's not quite as high as the around 10% share for computers in the US, but it is a full two percentage points higher than it was last year. Windows still dominates in the EU, with 92% of all computers running some ...

Apple moves past Motorola, up to 3% global cell phone market share

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2010)

Android may be moving ahead of Apple in the smartphone OS market, but Apple is steadily moving up the handset chart. It's just overtaken Motorola, shipping 8.75 million handsets in the first three months of this year, according to iSuppli. That many phones sets Apple up for three percent of the ...

iDevices making up more and more of Apple's revenue

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2010)

Apple held their latest earnings call this past week, which means we're right in the middle of a flood of analysts' charts and graphs about how well they're doing. This one's extra interesting, though -- we've talked before on this site about Apple's interesting position between its past of PCs and ...

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 ...

Mac shipments lowest they've been in 1.5 years

by Mike Schramm (Apr 27th, 2009)

Apple reported amazing earnings in its conference call last week, but SwitchtoaMac.com says not so fast -- while it's true that there was a lot of sun shining in Apple's report, there is one small shadow that they obviously didn't mention: their shipments of new Macs have started to drop off for the ...

We're number three!

by Robert Palmer (Jul 17th, 2008)

According to a survey from the Gartner group, Apple is again the third largest PC vendor in the United States. The company nosed out Acer for the second-quarter bronze. (Dell is number one, followed by HP in second place.) Apple shipped 1.4 million units last quarter, 38 percent more than the prior ...

Apple taking it easy on flash memory order this year

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2008)

CNET is reporting that iSuppli announced Apple is "cutting" their flash memory order this year, and in this case "cutting" doesn't mean "cutting" the way you or I would use it (as in, "The doctor said I had to cut my sugar intake, so I'll only have one doughnut instead of six."). No, it means ...