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IDC claims iPhone marketshare has grown 115%

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2011)

The International Data Corporation reports that Apple has been taking over the smartphone market in the past few years, with its market share growing by almost 115% over the past year. Apple's still not on top of the list (as there are much more established manufacturers on there, and as we've ...

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 ...

Gameloft VP: 'There is room for premium games at a premium price on the iPhone'

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

PocketGamer got to chat with Gameloft's vice president of worldwide publishing Gonzague de Vallois at last week's Mobile World Congress, and he paints a pretty grim picture for small developers and small games on the iPhone. When the platform first started out, he says, gamers were happy with ...

World of Goo for iPad outsells the Mac, PC, Linux, Wii, Xbox versions

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2011)

Developer 2D Boy makes the popular World of Goo game, which they recently released on the iPad, and the official blog has a long writeup about the iPad version from creation to release. 2D Boy originally planned to release the game on the iPhone, but couldn't get it to work right, so when the iPad ...

iPhone profits swamp competitors

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2011)

Now that the flurry of earnings from the last months of 2010 have been announced by all the major mobile phone manufacturers, Horace Dediu of Asymco has summarized these figures in several stunning graphs. The market analysis company has compared the market shares, sales shares and profit shares of ...

Citibank: Apple could pull in $2 billion in App Store revenues in 2011

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Right before the year switched over, Citibank released its "US Internet Stock 2011 Playbook," and in there was an interesting prediction about the App Store. Despite what seems like constantly falling prices and the rise of "freemium" apps, Citibank expects Apple to pull in $2 billion in gross app ...

iPhone could be the financial survivor in Android and Windows Phone 7 war

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 11th, 2010)

Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf believes that the iPhone could emerge as the big survivor as Android and Windows Phone 7 battle it out in a race to the bottom. Wolf expects that Google and Microsoft will be battling aggressively to keep phone makers building devices with their ...

Handheld gamers leaving DS and PSP for their phones

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2010)

A new report on the digital media industry from a firm named Interpret says that mobile phone gaming is rising at an incredible rate, even while traditional handheld gaming (such as games on handheld consoles like Nintendo's DS or Sony's PSP) is falling off. 43.8 percent of the gaming market plays ...

Publishers leery of doing business with Apple

by Steven Sande (Nov 5th, 2010)

ABCi, the interactive media arm of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, has issued a new report showing that American and Canadian publishers feel that mobile technology is very important to their futures. As a result, many of these publishers are working on making content available on mobile phones, ...

Apple is now the fourth-largest phone maker worldwide

by Dave Caolo (Oct 29th, 2010)

Well that was fast. In just three years, Apple has become the forth-largest phone maker worldwide. According to an IDC report, Apple moved into the 4th position in the 3rd quarter of 2010, overtaking competitor Research In Motion (RIM). As of IDC's report, the top vendors are, in order: Nokia ...

Report: Android ad revenue beats iPhone, iOS and smartphone market still growing

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2010)

Millenial Media has released its latest report on cross-platform mobile advertising, and the iPhone has lost another step on the Android platform. According to Millenial's reporting, revenue for advertising from the Android platform has exceeded iPhone-only revenue. That's not quite as bad as it ...

Analyst: Apple has created 'overwhelming' lead for iPad

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2010)

Now, let's be honest: the burgeoning tablet market is not a race. But if it was, says analyst Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank, the iPad would be winning. We're going to see quite a few tablet devices come to market before all is said and done, including the Blackberry PlayBook and products from ...

40.1 million people are playing games on iDevices, 45% fine with in-app ads

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2010)

Here are two interesting stats about iOS gaming to round out your Monday. First up, a new industry survey says that 40.1 million people in the US are playing games on Apple's mobile devices -- that's over half of the 77 million strong total gaming audience. That's a huge market share, especially ...

Has the iPhone App Market already crashed?

by Mike Schramm (Aug 18th, 2010)

At GDC Europe earlier this week, Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz claimed that the iPhone app market "has already crashed. You cannot sell your game for 99 cents and expect a return." Apple has said that developers are collectively making more than a billion dollars on the App Store, but Hubertz knocks ...

Millennial Media report has Apple with 56% of smartphone market, ad requests up big time

by Mike Schramm (Jul 15th, 2010)

Millennial Media has a new report (out this morning) that they sent along, and it's got some interesting research, based on their advertising network, about Apple and its place in the smartphone market. As you can see above, Apple's still got the majority base of OS users in the smartphone market; ...