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Analyst: Mac sales up 31% for January 2013

by Randy Nelson (Feb 25th, 2013)

Despite ending on a down note for the first quarter of Apple's 2013 fiscal year, Mac sales seem to be on the rise. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has crunched the latest NPD sales figures and concluded that US sales of Mac desktops increased by 31 percent in January when compared to the ...

Apple starts iPhone payment plans, makes retail deals to grow India's smartphone market

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2013)

China is no longer an emerging market at this point. It's now the top market in the world for smartphones, and Apple has worked hard to get a foothold in early. So now that China is covered, where's Apple headed to next? India seems to be the answer, as Apple has slashed prices and implemented ...

Mac Pro no longer available from European Apple online stores

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 19th, 2013)

Time is quickly running out for European shoppers who hope to grab a Mac Pro from Apple. Back in January Apple announced that it would stop selling the Mac Pro on March 1st in Europe due to new regulations regarding the unit's power supply. It looks like Apple has now started the withdrawal of ...

China becomes the world's top smart-device market

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2013)

China is one of the fastest-growing markets for smartphones in the world, and here's some data that further reinforces that trend. According to mobile marketing firm Flurry, China has now overtaken the US to become the top smart-device market in the entire world. The country been moving up on ...

Staples to start selling Apple products

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 15th, 2013)

US office supply chain Staples will soon sell Apple products. Though there has been no official press release from the company yet, several Staples employees, including Strategic Accounts coordinator Erin LaFlamme broke the news on Twitter. Staples employs more than 50,000 people world wide ...

iTunes, iPhone accessory sales more lucrative than most smartphone vendors

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 12th, 2013)

Horace Dediu has created an eye-popping chart about just how big Apple's iTunes revenues and iPhone accessory revenues have become. iTunes was once considered a "break even" business model for Apple, meaning that the company wasn't too concerned about making a profit on iTunes sales, but using ...

Apple subpoenaed in Australia to explain high price of its products

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 11th, 2013)

Apple, along with Microsoft and Adobe, has been subpoenaed by the Australian Parliament to explain why it has been charging Australian customers more for certain products than it charges customers in the UK, US and other Asian-Pacific countries. The Inquiry into IT Pricing has been going on ...

Apple sees huge growth in India, but trails behind competitors

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 8th, 2013)

TechCrunch reports that Apple has seen a huge gain in sales in India -- up to 400 percent -- in July through September 2012, but still has a long way to go compared to its competitors in the region. According to the research firm IDC (based on figures collated from that time period), Apple ...

Sprint sold best-ever 2.2M iPhones in holiday quarter

by Dave Caolo (Feb 7th, 2013)

Sprint has announced its fourth-quarter earnings for 2012, which included the sale of 2.2 million iPhones. A full 38 percent of those went to new customers. Overall, Sprint sold 6.6 million iPhones in 2012, which isn't too shabby. That 38 percent new-customer acquisition number is good news for ...

Apple gains more ground in US smartphone share

by Randy Nelson (Feb 6th, 2013)

ComScore is out with its latest look at how Apple and its competitors are faring in the ongoing war for smartphone market share in the US. According to the firm's latest sampling of 300,000 cellular subscribers, Apple's lead doesn't look to be slowing. As of December 2012, Apple holds a 36.3% ...

If an iPad's a computer, then Apple is the world's PC shipment leader

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th, 2013)

Is an iPad a portable media device? A tablet computer? Something entirely "post-PC"? The answer, of course, is "it depends who you ask." Let's go ahead and define the parent category for iPads (and other tablets like the Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Google Nexus) as "mobile screens that ...

iMac ship times lengthen in Europe

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 4th, 2013)

Ship times for Apple's latest generation iMac slipped to four to six weeks for the 27-inch model and three to four weeks for the 21.5-inch model in some European Apple Stores. As noted by MacGeneration, these changes first appeared in France on Monday. A quick check of other European stores ...

Apple not sure it can meet iMac demand this quarter

by Randy Nelson (Jan 23rd, 2013)

It's no secret that Apple has been having difficulty meeting demand for some of its key products as of late, something that directly corresponded to a 17% drop in Mac sales for the first quarter of 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned during today's earning call that while the company will ...

Apple sold 10 iOS devices per second last quarter

by Mike Wehner (Jan 23rd, 2013)

According to Apple's earnings call, iOS devices are selling like hotcakes. You probably didn't need me to tell you that, but here we are, talking about it anyway. Now, how fast did the Apple-flavored hotcakes sell? Approximately 10 per second for the entire last quarter of 2012. 47.8 million ...

iPhone number one in Japan for the holiday season

by Mike Wehner (Jan 22nd, 2013)

We already know Apple's hardware was a hit in China during the last part of 2012, and new data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that Japan felt the same way, at least when it comes to the iPhone. According to the firm's most recent data from the end of 2012, the iPhone holds an astonishing ...