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- APPLE IWEB EQUIVALENT PC
- APPLE IWEB EQUIVALENT PROFESSIONAL
- APPLE IWEB EQUIVALENT MAC
APPLE IWEB EQUIVALENT MAC
Second, Mac unit sales grew by 28%, not 9.6% (IDC) or 18.9% (Gartner). First, IDC and Gartner have substantial disagreements, such as - 42% vs. See this Apple Insider piece from which I extract the following tables:Ī couple of observations.
APPLE IWEB EQUIVALENT PC
Sure, more than half of Apple’s revenue - and certainly more than half of its profits - come from iOS devices, but the Mac keeps growing faster than the rest of the PC industry…for the 20th quarter in a row. The Mac numbers are smaller but no less interesting. Among his firm’s portfolio: Apple Stores and Pixar’s HQ.) (Let’s pause a moment to pay tribute to Bernard Cywinski, of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, who recently passed away. We now hear that the Shanghai Apple Store does more volume than the historic 5th Avenue location, with a new store, China’s largest, in the works. Instead, Chinese customers appear to insist on The Real Thing.
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You’ll recall Stephen Elop, currently Nokia’s CEO, cautioning against aggressively priced MediaTek based Android devices in his Burning Platform memo. The number is especially interesting because this ought to be where iOS goes to die, snuffed out by a swarm of locally produced cheap handsets running Android or its mutant cousins Tapas and Ophone. In China the iPhone is +250% year-to-year (vs. iPads also exhibited an above average skew in the 18–24 year old age segment. … the heaviest skew toward 25–34 year olds (23.4 percent) in relation to the total mobile audience (17.3 percent). The link above yields interesting demographics, parsing Mobile, Smartphone and iPad users by gender and six age classes: Initial research indicates that Apple’s iOS platform, which resides on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, has a combined platform reach of 28.9 million users in the five European markets, outreaching the Android platform by 116 percent. Seeking Alpha provides a transcript of the call as well as the animated Q&A.)ĬomScore has equally interesting numbers for Europe: (These are the numbers Apple’s COO Tim Cook referred to in the April 20th conference call covering the company’s Q2 earnings.

Initial research indicates that Apple’s iOS platform, which resides on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, has a combined platform reach of 37.9 million among all mobile phones, tablets and other such connected media devices, outreaching the Android platform by 59 percent. Even with iPod Touches thrown in, ‘‘ Apple share has actually fallen.” Less than three weeks later we get fresh comScore numbers for the US: Speaking of misses, Business Insider looked at preliminary comScore numbers in early April and proclaimed the iPhone Dead In Water. (More exhaustively cruel and graphic details of the pros’ rout can be found in this additional Apple 2.0 post.)
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt gives Horace a tip of his hat while savaging Wall Street pros’ forecasting performance: “ Most professional analysts blew it in Q2, but you wouldn’t know it from their postmortems.” Fun reading, especially if you hold cynical views of Wall Street earnings forecasts and whisper numbers games. (He usually deserves an A, but chose to downgrade himself for his 10% overestimate of iPod shipments and for whiffing the iPad number - more on that later.) After Apple’s earnings release, Horace evaluated his own performance and gave himself a sober B. Often insightful, never boring.Īnother favorite with a wide readership and great comment threads: Horace Dediu’s Asymco. You needn’t agree with everything Brian writes, form or substance, but if you want to follow what he rightly calls The Destruction of Everything by the smartphone wave, his postings at The Smartphone Wars Community are required reading.

iPad: 4.69 million units, compared with 7.33 million in Q1.iPhone sales up 155% in the U.S., thanks in part to Verizon, and up 250% in greater China.Sales: $24.67 billion, up 82.8% year over year.Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose Fortune Tech Apple 2.0 blog I enjoy and recommend, provides a crisp summary: This last week, Apple announced their 2011 Q2 numbers.
