If you were wondering what Apple would do without the iPhone, here’s the answer, through a revenue pie chart shown below. Notice the 40% slice associated with the famous handset, that’s an important cash cow for the Cupertino giant.
We’re curious how this graph will look in a year or two, when the iPad will start to matter financially....
Apple published its earnings for the past quarter this week, with their results surpassing even the most optimistic analyst predictions. Also, the iPhone sales were pretty impressive, as the company shipped 8.75 million handsets last quarter, compared to the expected 7 million.
Mac sales were also pretty solid, over the past quarter, with 2.94 million...
If someone told you that the Moto Droid wins the sales duel with the first iPhone and Google Nexus One, would you believe this? From a certain point of view, this is very much real, if we take into account the analytics reporting published by Flurry recently. Have a look at the image below:
Flurry is able to detect and count devices like the Nexus...
Gartner has just revealed a bunch of figures showing the sales of smartphones in 2009. From these we learn that Apple’s iPhone doubled its international smartphone market share to 14.4%, up 6.2% from 2008, while Nokia’s Symbian high end devices keep their first place in this segment.
Nokia’s market share declined 5.5 points to 46.9%,...
While AT&T is holding its grip over the Apple iPhone the US, in order to earn more and more cash, in Europe things are starting to look up, as far as sales are concerned, mostly due to the end of exclusivities. It’s pretty logical, considering that more carriers selling a phone means a higher profit.
We’re talking about the UK and France,...
Apple has recently surpassed Nokia, as far as handset-based profit is concerned, thanks to the ever popular iPhone, according to Strategy Analytics. The Cupertino giant’s Q3 operating profit from iPhone sales was $1.6 billion, while Nokia lagged behind with $1.1 billion, generated by its handset unit.
The Finns are struggling to keep up with...
Krusell is a Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable devices and the company is known for its monthly “Top 10″ list of sold products, revealing which handsets are popular all over the world. This time, we get to check out the October 2009 list and you have to know that it reflects the sales of phone on 6 continents and in over...
In spite of the fact that it hasn’t reached the Chinese market yet, the iPhone is selling like hot cakes in this country. Some even say that it has already reached 1 million sold units and there’s more to come.
Ovum, a telecommunications consulting service company has just recently released a report, stating that over the course of one year,...
An analyst report from Friedman Billings Ramsey claims that Apple plans on cutting the iPhone production by more than 40% in the 4th quarter of 2008. This seems to be caused by the number of units produced in Q3, enough to satisfy the demand from Q4.
Another factor for this decrease is the famous economic depression, making buyers spend less and decreasing...