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After a brief fumble last quarter, Apple is back with a bang. The new version of the iPhone has been met with strong acceptance, and Apple beat Android phones in the U.S. to become the leading smartphone device in the market. According to Kantar Worldpanel research, iPhone sales grew 128% in the last quarter of 2011 to 37 million units. Within the U.S., iPhones have a 44.9% market share, marginally ahead of Android’s 44.8% market share. Android continues to dominate in the European markets, but Apple is catching up. In the U.K., during the December quarter last year, Apple’s share grew 34% compared with 22% a year ago.
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Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not?
Ari Zilka: Twitter is both big data and it’s real time. Twitter could comb through their Tweets, their end user Tweets, and look for patterns in what people are Tweeting about. That’s the hashtags, in fact, where users self-tag as part of a pattern and a trend. Twitter then looks at those hashtags and the symbols’ trends. It also does regular pattern matching on our Tweets. It also has a real-time aspect. The entire interface to Twitter is about a real-time push of data between you and me and all our friends in our networks and so on. So, your question is excellent. Why aren’t they making money? Read the full article »
Sramana Mitra: I think I agree with you. You are saying that Groupon is the most significant. Groupon – and the others in that category, such as LivingSocial – is the more significant innovation in location-based coupon services in the recent generation.
Tasso Roumeliotis: Yes, exactly.
SM: What do you see as the impact of the intersection of social media and location-based services? Read the full article »
Samsung recently became the leading vendor of smartphones with a market share of 20%, up from 8.8% last year, according to a third-quarter market research report by IDC. It surpassed Apple, which has a 14.5% market share, down from 17% last year. Let’s take a closer look.
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The iPhone was released on Verizon in February this year. However, since it was not a new model, it was not as much a success as it was expected to be. With the iPhone 5 to be released soon, a huge spurt in sales is expected at Verizon, the No.1 wireless carrier. In the meantime, its closest rival, AT&T, is facing problems with its T-Mobile deal. Let’s take a closer look.
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Apple shipped its first iOS device, the iPhone, in the summer of 2007 and has not stopped since. Within a quarter, they sold over one million units. By July 2010, the company had reported sales of iOS devices to have crossed 100 million units sold, and this January, they reported sales of 160 million units. Last month, cumulative iOS device sales crossed 200 million units. To date, Apple has shipped 222 million iOS devices. Apple’s device popularity can be gauged from COO Tim Cook’s comment in the iPad2 “…we sold every iPad 2 in the quarter that we could make and so there certainly was not a shortage of demand.”
Apple is gaining market share across the globe within different market segments. Within the U.S., they are the third-largest PC seller. According to IDC Research, global PC shipments grew 2.6% over the year in the second quarter, compared to the 12% growth in the first quarter. Apple surpassed Acer to own 10.7% of the domestic PC market driven by strong sales of the iPad. A year ago, Apple commanded a 9% market share. In Europe, they recently overtook Nokia, again, this time in mobile ad impression share. InMobi research estimates that during the previous quarter, more than 2 billion ad impressions were served on Apple devices in Europe, commanding 19.5% of the Continent’s mobile ad share. The share of Nokia devices fell to 18.7% of ads in the region. Read the full article »
Apple reported yet another stellar quarter this week driven by the momentum of its iPhone which was recently released on the Verizon network. It recently released its iPad 2 and sold every piece it made. Steve Jobs is on medical leave but the company’s products have gathered such good momentum that he is not needed to sustain it.
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Research in Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM) last week reported strong third quarter results that beat all estimates. On the other hand, research firms and analysts have been reporting on dismal performance of its BlackBerry phones compared to that of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones. Let’s dig deeper. Read the full article »
