Tag: Sales
Worth Reading: The Shape Of The App Store
Charles Perry, on the Metakite blog: “Every developer knows how tough it can be to make a living on the App Store. There’s a lot...
EA Launches Major Holiday Sale On The App Store
Electronic Arts has just launched its yearly holiday sale on the iTunes App Store. The company has marked down the prices of its entire library of...
Analyst: An Estimated 200 Million iPhones Will Be Sold In 2013
Investment analyst Michael Walkley predicts that Apple is on its way to selling 194 million iPhones in the coming 2013 fiscal year. These numbers include sales...
Apple To Sell 101.6 Million iPads In 2012
After Apple revealed both a fourth-generation iPad and an iPad mini last week, Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley is expecting Apple to sell 101.6 million...
Apple could sell 12 million iPads… this quarter
By now, everyone’s heard the numbers: three million new iPads sold in the opening weekend, an extraordinary number. But if speculation is correct, the best...
Half of smartphones sold by Verizon in Q4 2011 were iPhones
Verizon just had their quarterly earnings call today, and there is some big news regarding Apple. Turns out, about 55 percent of all smartphones sold...
Nielsen: 43 percent of iPhone buyers chose older iPhones during last quarter
A survey of new iPhone owners conducted in December brought to light two interesting facts: 53 percent of customers surveyed bought an iPhone 4S, meaning...
43 percent of smartphones sold in October and November were iPhones
Things are certainly heating up in the smartphone market. NPD is reporting that the iPhone grabbed 43 percent of US smartphone sales in October and...
Rumor: Apple to introduce NFC to iPhones in 2012
According to Taiwanese production sources, both Microsoft and Apple are planning on including NFC (Near Field Communications) — the technology in your wave-to-pay credit cards — in...
iOS users account for upwards of 90 percent of app revenue
According to Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray (insert grain of salt here), Apple’s iOS is taking in the lion’s share of lifetime app revenue, and...
Mac sales are up huge in the Western Europe, competitors are down, down, down
While the rest of the PC market seems to be drying up in Europe (down 11.4 percent this year over last), Apple seems to be...
Four million iPhone 4Ss sold over the first weekend, a new record for Apple
Apple has announced figures for the first weekend of its iPhone 4S sales, and surprisingly it’s doing a lot better than the original iPhone 4....
Mac sales kicking butt, but iPods struggling
Sales data from NPD Group show that while Mac sales continue to be impressive, the iPod is starting to stagnate and decline. Mac sales are...
Apple iPhone outsells all models of Nokia smartphones for Q2 2011
You know how in the past, whenever we talked about who sold the most phones, Nokia would always seem to surprise us by being at...
Back to school sales has Apple beating Microsoft 8 to 2
If you’re looking for a new computer before heading back to college in the fall, chances are you’ve already considered purchasing an Apple machine. A...
Analyst fears OS X Lion online only distribution will hurt retailers
It was inevitable. Apple created the Mac App Store to sell downloads to its users, and what better way to drive traffic to its own...
Apple seems to be doing just fine in the enterprise market
A lot of people have complained about Apple’s commitment to the enterprise for a very, very long time. It didn’t help that Apple officially discontinued...
People flock to both the cheapest and most expensive iPad models
Given the fact that there are 6 distinct iPad models available to consumers, one would expect that the purchasing tendencies of consumers would be fairly...