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Report suggests AirPlay affecting iTunes online movie share

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 24th, 2011)

At least, that's the conclusion research firm IHS came to upon seeing growth in Apple's online video sales. Apparently Apple, up against competition from Walmart (Vudu) and Amazon, saw its market share go up from 64.9% in the first half of 2010 to 65.8% in the first half of 2011. Not exactly ...

Gartner: Apple's global mobile phone share almost doubled in Q2 2011

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 11th, 2011)

Gartner's numbers were released for the second quarter in 2011 and Apple continues to show strong growth. The smartphone manufacturer is number four globally in the mobile phone market trailing Nokia, Samsung and LG. Its market share almost doubled from last year, climbing from 2.4 in 2011. ...

Apple portables set to dominate latter half of 2011

by Chris Rawson (Aug 8th, 2011)

According to Fortune, financial analysts from Deutsche Bank are predicting a rise in Apple's global portable computer sales for the rest of this year. If the iPad is included in those numbers, the rise is downright astonishing, taking Apple from last place among the six vendors studied all the ...

Survey: iPhone retention rate at 94%, interest in iPhone 5 high

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 1st, 2011)

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster suggests interest in the iPhone remains strong. In a recent research note, he points to a small survey of 216 mobile phone owners in Minneapolis that shows 64% will buy an iPhone as their next handset. Breaking it down, 94% of iPhone owners plan to buy ...

Study reveals Apple surpasses RIM in US smartphone share

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Apple is now the #2 mobile platform in the US with 26.6% market share. Apple rose 1.4 percentage points and inched past RIM which now holds 24.7% of the US market. Similar to Apple, Android also gained market share grabbing another 5.1 percentage points to climb to 38.1% market share. Rim took ...

iPad grabs 1% of global browser share, 25% of US mobile browsing

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 4th, 2011)

Not surprisingly, recent statistics from New Applications, a web analytics firm, show that many people are using their iPad to browse the web. The iPad now accounts for 1% of the global web browser market and 2% in the US. This number has steadily increased since the original iPad debuted in ...

Report indicates iOS users stick with platform due to 'lock-in effect'

by Chris Rawson (Jun 1st, 2011)

Citing a report from research2guidance, GigaOM notes that Apple's market share of app downloads reversed the backward slide that began in 2009 and recently increased by 2 percent. This is a far cry from the doom n' gloom predictions many pundits have been espousing for Apple's platform, and it ...

iOS and Android gained video game market share in 2010

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 15th, 2011)

Flurry, a mobile analytics service, combined its mobile application data with published data from the NPD group and others, to show that Android and iOS captured a growing portion of the video game market share in 2010. According to the firm's analysis, iOS and Android game sales increased from ...

Apple takes a bite out of PC market

by Dana Franklin (Apr 14th, 2011)

For the first time in six quarters, worldwide shipments of personal computers declined during the first three months of 2011, according to reports from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. (IDC) released this week. Despite faltering demand for PCs, Apple enjoyed increased sales and market ...

"iPhone dead in water," claims Business Insider

by Richard Gaywood (Apr 4th, 2011)

Henry Blodget at Business Insider has posted about Comscore's latest smartphone market share survey: "Apple's share increased slightly, but is dead in the water and has now fallen way behind Android. Android now has a third of the US market (33%). RIM's share has plummeted to 29%. Apple is ...

Report: Windows Phone to beat iPhone in market share by 2015

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2011)

IDC has released its latest report on the future of the smartphone market, and according to the predictions, there's a lot of growth in store for Windows Phone 7. By 2015, says the firm, Windows Phones should have over 20 percent of the smartphone market, placing it ahead of even Apple's iOS ...

Sprint concerned over AT&T, T-Mobile merger

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2011)

Sprint responded to the announcement of the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T with a statement that expresses concern about the proposed merger. Sprint suggests federal regulators take a close look at the deal, which will dramatically change the structure of the wireless industry in the ...

Switzerland leads in Mac market share around the world

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2011)

The official Pingdom blog did a little research into Mac market share around the world according to StatCounter (all based on browser visits to a pretty solid sample of 3 million websites), and it turns out that Switzerland is the most Mac country in the world. OS X has a 17.61 percent market ...

iOS now responsible for 2 percent of all web traffic

by David Quilty (Feb 1st, 2011)

According to a report from NetApplications, Apple's iOS now has a 2 percent share of all web traffic. Combining for a worldwide average of 2.06 percent, the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch OS has passed the 2 percent mark for the first time ever and has even reached a whopping 10 percent market share in ...

Report that iPad is losing share to Android tablets corrected

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2011)

A circulating report falsely suggests the iPad is still the #1 tablet on the market, but is losing market share to Android. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, the iPad held on to a 75.3 percent market share in Q4 2010, while Android captured a respectable 21.6 percent share. This ...