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The computer market with, without the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 13th, 2012)

It's the question analysts have been asking since the launch of the iPad - is the iPad a PC? Some analysts believe that the iPad should be a new category of devices and its performance compared to similar offerings running Android. Others notice that PC sales are declining, iPad sales are ...

iOS ends 2011 with 52% of mobile Web browsing

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 2nd, 2012)

iOS began 2011 by grabbing more than half of the mobile browser market share and ended 2011 equally strong. According to mobile web browsing data from Net Applications, which counts unique visitors to its network of websites, iOS accounted for 54.07% of the mobile browser market in January 2011 ...

iPhone share rises in US, UK, Australia; falls on European continent

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2011)

Sometimes it seems like just about everyone in the US has an iPhone. A report by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech that was highlighted by Reuters today shows that the iPhone's share of the US smartphone market jumped from 25 percent during the run-up to Christmas last year to 36 percent during the ...

Samsung battles Apple in Australia/NZ phone market as patent fight expands

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

There's rarely a day anymore that TUAW doesn't report on the status of one or more patent infringement lawsuits. The latest from the battle between Apple and Samsung is that the Cupertino company has now issued a notice of infringement to Samsung in Australia, noting that Samsung's case design ...

Talking Points Memo sees Windows visitors decline, Mac and iOS users soar

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 27th, 2011)

The progressive left-leaning political news site Talking Points Memo issued an interesting set of (non-partisan) statistics that shows just how much the share of total devices running Microsoft Windows has declined in the last five years. As you can see from the chart above, in 2006 78% of ...

Gartner shows iOS lost smartphone share to Android in Q3 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 15th, 2011)

Although Apple is selling iPhones like the proverbial hotcake, iOS lost market share in the worldwide smartphone market in the third quarter of 2011. What's remarkable is that sales of the iPhone actually grew during that time, according to sales information from Gartner. As noted in a post on ...

Apple the most desired PC in China

by Steven Sande (Nov 10th, 2011)

China is one of Apple's most desirable markets, due to the growing middle class and the huge population base of over 1.3 billion people. It appears that the love goes both ways, as Macs are considered to be the most desirable brands of personal computer in China. Investment firm Morgan ...

10 percent of US mobile phones are iPhones; Apple earns half of all industry profits

by Chris Rawson (Nov 4th, 2011)

Two reports have come out which show the immense impact Apple's iPhone has had on the mobile market. The first report from comScore indicates that one in ten mobile customers in the US owns an iPhone of some kind. That's not just smartphone customers; that's all mobile customers. Given that ...

Smartphone wars: Android "has half of the UK smartphone market"

by Richard Gaywood (Nov 1st, 2011)

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech -- a prominent market research firm and a powerful figure on the Scrabble board -- today released its latest "smartphone OS barometer" report, and it has some noteworthy conclusions in it about the British market. Specifically, the report claims that in the 12 weeks ...

Microsoft exec says Windows phone is cure for iPhone monotony

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 10th, 2011)

Andy Lees, President of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, believes the time is now for Windows Phone 7 to gain some ground on its competiton. Lees see Android as chaotic with too many choices, and the Apple iPhone 4S as a missed opportunity because it offers only a minor improvement in hardware ...

"Apple Shock" and its effect on the IT industry

by Steven Sande (Oct 7th, 2011)

It's well known in the Wintel PC industry that Apple has been kicking butt and taking names. Starting last year, Apple's iPad and second-generation MacBook Air started doing some serious damage to many of its competitors. Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien has a name for this -- ...

Report suggests iOS hit all-time market share high

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2011)

Last week, TUAW reported on the recent rise in the market share of Mac OS X. The numbers, compiled by Net Applications, show a rising acceptance of Mac OS X in the global marketplace. Now Net Applications is reporting that iOS has hit an all-time market share high of 54.65 percent. As you can ...

Chitika: Mac OS X market share jumps in September

by Steven Sande (Sep 27th, 2011)

Chitika Insights grabs online advertising data to monitor and report on Internet trends, one of which is the market share of various computer operating systems. There was a surprise reported for Mac OS X in the latest report -- the market share for Apple's desktop/laptop OS climbed 1.039 to ...

Nielsen: Android adoption doubled iOS over last three months

by Mel Martin (Sep 26th, 2011)

BGR reports this morning that Android phones are growing rapidly in market share in the US. That's the word from the Nielsen Company, which just released research conducted in August. Customer surveys showed that over the last 3 months, ending in August, twice as many people purchased an ...

Apple devices dominate airport Wi-Fi

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2011)

Anyone who has spent time around an airport recently has probably noticed that Apple devices -- particularly the iPhone and iPad -- seem to be everywhere. Ina Fried at the Wall Street Journal reports that Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo has the stats to prove that Apple devices are now dominating ...