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Appcelerator launches app store for app components

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2011)

Stick with us on this one -- Appcelerator has just launched an App Store, but not for apps. Instead, it's for components for apps, offering designs, templates, extensions, and other tools to app developers, who can then use those to make mobile apps for various other app stores, including ...

Forrester: iPad may be (slightly) more vulnerable in Europe

by Mike Schramm (Aug 9th, 2011)

Sometimes the market-research business can be tough. On the same day that a German court blocked sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in almost every EU country, a new report from Forrester Research arrives on the scene -- and it says that if Apple competitors want to take on the iPad, Europe ...

iPad brand four times stronger than competing tablets

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 20th, 2011)

A new Bernstein Research survey suggests Apple will dominate the tablet market in the same way its iPods dominate the MP3 market. According to the survey, 50% of respondents in the US and the UK prefer the iPad over competing tablets. Surprisingly, even tablets from successful smartphone ...

Comscore says the iPhone now tops RIM in US subscribers

by Mel Martin (Jun 3rd, 2011)

It's probably not a gigantic surprise that Apple has slipped past the RIM BlackBerry phones, but it's a benchmark that should be noted. There may even be a few toasts in Cupertino. Comscore keeps an eye on mobile trends, and a report released today says Apple has increased market share from ...

Tim Cook: Tablets will outsell PCs (no kidding)

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope has been talking to Apple's higher-ups lately according to BI (including COO Tim Cook), and that they're extremely bullish on iOS devices, even more so than they've been in the past. That's hardly surprising -- not only would you expect Apple executives to be ...

Report: Not much has changed in the growing smartphone market

by Mike Schramm (May 20th, 2011)

It's that time of the month again -- another report is out from Millenial Media about advertising on the smartphone platforms, with more conclusions about what the market's been up to lately. This month, the big news is... that there's not a lot of big news at all. Apple continues to sit on top ...

Nielsen: iPad maintains 82% of tablet market

by Mike Schramm (May 5th, 2011)

No surprises here: the iPad is dominating the tablet market in the US right now, with over 80 percent of users owning a version of Apple's tablet. The latest survey by Nielsen gives that figure, and says that 3G and Wi-Fi versions are almost equally split among owners, with 39% sticking with ...

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 ...