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SSDs kick up performance for developers and users alike

by Erica Sadun (Jul 25th, 2012)

I'm a developer. One of the things we devs do to pass the time is complain about how long it takes to compile and brag about the power of our development systems. Hot-rodding your system isn't just limited to development, though. There are lots of people out there who sit and wait as their ...

Stats of the Union brings American demographic data to the iPad

by Michael Grothaus (May 29th, 2011)

If you have an interest in American demographics and statistics, you need to check out the Stats of the Union iPad app. Statistics are only useful when you have a clear way of organizing and viewing the data. Without being able to do that, you can't glean any useful information from the ...

OkCupid: iPhone users have more sex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2010)

I've been a huge fan of social dating site OkCupid's OkTrends blog for a while now. They're constantly sharing data (anonymized, of course) from their social site about what people find attractive and interesting in each other. The latest post has some fun information about cameras -- ...

Report: 12% of US households own a Mac

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2009)

A new NPD report says that 12% of US households now own a Mac of some kind. That's a nice gain -- just a year ago, back in 2008, the same stat was at 9 percent, so Apple has made nice jumps just in the last 12 months. But before you start crowing about Apple's impending superiority, here's another ...

Pinch Media sees hints of next-generation iPod touch

by Michael Rose (Jul 7th, 2009)

Where do you find yourself with respect to the rumors of a new iPod touch somewhere in the pipeline? Having a slew of case manufacturers showing products with cutouts for a camera strikes me as enticing but ultimately unconvincing; hearing from Pinch Media, however, raises the credibility level to ...

Apple blows past other hardware web sites in May

by Mel Martin (Jun 30th, 2009)

Wow. It isn't even close. Apple blew by HP, Dell and even MagicJack (!) with the most visits to a website in May. According to the people who compile such statistics at Nielsen, Apple drew 55.7 million unique viewers, more than double what next ranked HP did. Much of that may have been driven by ...

Numbers game: 75M Mac OS X users, 1M SDK downloads, 50,000 apps

by Robert Palmer (Jun 8th, 2009)

As with most keynote presentations, Apple released a lot of numbers about just how many people are adopting the Mac and iPhone platforms. First, over the last three years, the active Mac OS X installed base has grown from 25 million users to 75 million users. This is great news for the platform and ...

Latest survey shows Apple customers are happiest

by Mel Martin (Feb 19th, 2009)

While the economy continues to tank, and desktop PC purchases are falling, a new survey from ChangeWave Research says Apple customers are the happiest buyers. Looking at people who bought a computer in the last 90 days, 81% said they were very satisfied with their purchase. That compares with 67% ...

Apple market share tops 10%, Windows share lowest since tracking began

by Robert Palmer (Jan 2nd, 2009)

Microsoft's share of the operating system market is dropping, while Apple computers and handhelds have topped 10 percent for the first time, according to a new report on Internet-connected computers. NetApplications, the company that tracks browser and operating system market share for a variety of ...

Rank and sales data could help figure out App Store popularity algorithm

by Robert Palmer (Dec 20th, 2008)

Joel Comm, publisher of the highly-useful app iFart Mobile, has published some data about how sales related to popularity in the App Store. While I have only a high-school understanding of statistics, it would appear from Comm's data that as sales rise in a linear fashion, App Store ranking ...

J.D. Power survey ranks iPhone highest

by Robert Palmer (Nov 7th, 2008)

J.D. Power and Associates released the results of a survey yesterday, showing Apple's iPhone ranked highest in terms of customer satisfaction among 1,388 business wireless customers queried between August and September. Apple scored 778 (out of 1,000), higher than Blackberry-maker RIM (703) and ...

Analyst roundup: 5m iPhones for Q4, gloomy Christmas ahead

by Robert Palmer (Sep 22nd, 2008)

Widely-read Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is revising his prior estimate for the quarter ending a week from Tuesday, and his outlook is even rosier than before. Instead of 4.1 million iPhone 3Gs, Munster expects Apple will sell 5 million of the handsets. Likewise, he's revising his estimates ...

Survey: Apple riding high on news of economic woes

by Robert Palmer (Sep 15th, 2008)

A survey by ChangeWave says Apple is looking ahead to record sales for Macs, which smiles in the face of further declines in U.S. consumer spending. The survey polled 4,416 people between August 4 and August 12. If the poll is any indication, Apple will do well in the next three months, with 34 ...

Forrester: Apple nearly quadruples enterprise share

by Robert Palmer (Aug 26th, 2008)

Ben Gray, analyst at Forrester Research, says that Mac OS X accounts for 4.5 percent of the business operating system market, 3¾ times their share in January 2007. Computerworld notes that all this has happened with one thing notably absent: an enterprise strategy. "I haven't seen anything ...

iPhone browser share doubled since 3G launch

by Robert Palmer (Aug 19th, 2008)

According to HitsLink, the people who track web usage statistics, iPhone users account for about a third of one percent of web browsers on the Internet, the largest of any mobile platform. iPhone ranks fourth overall in terms of operating system market share, behind Windows, Mac, and Linux. On ...