Looky-look, Apple’s changing the game once again — and analysts are having to swiftly change their ideas of how the market works.
Take major market research firm, Forrester, who today admitted the immediate success of the iPad will force it to change its entire tablet computer market forecasts….
In a blog post, analyst Sarah Rotman Epps writes that the iPad is
Apple has trained its users well — we’re good and dutiful and ready to update our machines – this will be why nearly half of all iPhone users (and let’s not forget those first-gen users who can’t upgrade) have already updated to iOS 4 — less than one month after release.
These claims come straight out of the research people at Chitika Research. They also reckon 10 per cent of current iOS 4 users have jumped over to 4.0.1.
The survey results are based on a statistically useful nine million iPhone page impressions — that’s people dancing onto a Chitika served ad page.
Founded in 2003, Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka), is a full-service on-line advertising network serving over 2 billion monthly impressions across more than 80,000 websites.
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You know all those iPad-killers we’re told are waiting in the wings ready to eat Apple’s lunch when they ship later this year? They may not make it to market in time...
See, Apple’s got a huge success on its hands, as Apple COO, Tim Cook put it,
Microsoft has a new plan to stop its thousands of iPhone-wielding employees using their Apple smartphone — it intends giving all 90,000 MSFT staff a free Windows 7 phone (hear the wo0ts).
So there’ll be no excuse not to drink at Microsoft’s water fountain any more.
The good news here is that this means whichever firms throng to license the Windows 7 phone OS are guaranteed a slice of 90,000 sales, but you only really need to ponder the success (or lack of it) of the Microsoft Zune to see what a mind share war Ballmer’s boys are battling.
May even mean Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, can be a little less passionate on his feelings about the iPhone.
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The service only requires a cheap Roku box and MP3Tunes (2GB free). MP3Tunes also streams to iPhone/iPod/iPad (and Android and a bunch of other devices). Eventually, Google and probably Apple will have this capability, but why wait? Also. Chicago?
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We linked to a ZDNet article earlier but the whole thing is now online. Really interesting stuff in here. Like:
For Apple, the idea of restricting the iPhone was akin to asking Steve Jobs to ditch the black turtleneck.
To the refrain of this morning
Apple is not paying Foxconn an additional subsidy toward improved wages for workers on the iPhone, iPad and Mac production lines, an executive has said.
There have been claims that Apple has been paying a 2 per cent subsidy on Foxconn
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Apple holds the lead in terms of mobile OS usage reports mobile ads network, Millennial Media this morning — Apple devices accounted for 30 percent of mobile ad impressions.
The network claims it reaches 82 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the US. It tells us that Apple
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Apple is about to apply a host of changes to its Genius Bar, including provision of overnight repairs, in addition to warning retail staff to expect a major event soon.
The Genius Bar changes are being declared as a
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Microsoft is seeking iPad owners to take part in an in-depth study as the company plans its own breed of business-focused tablets.Microsoft User Research has launched the study and is now seeking iPad owners willing to take part in the two-hour session at its headquarters in Seattle.
Intriguingly, the Facebook page the company first sought iPad users through was closed down shortly after being published. And as The Guardian
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The iPad has been an untarnished success for Apple, now it seems the company is set to introduce two new and smaller iPad models, just in time for Christmas!
The usual shady component manufacturing sources (Digitimes) are chattering, saying Apple may be getting services in from Compal Electronics, who may be manufacturing 5.6-inch and 7-inch OLED panels for the future iPads.
The Digitimes sources claimed Apple has
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The iPhone 4 is becoming Apple
AT&T is promising to make its network, erm, better, with CTO, John Donovan promising the company will
Apple appears to be panicking in its reaction to the widely-reported antenna issue plaguing most iPhone 4s — in its latest maneuver to attempt to
RIM still has some fight left, despite the rapid incursion of the likes of Apple and Android into its space — but does the BlackBerry 6 OS take this fight far enough to see off the new smartphone champions? Decide for yourself through watching the latest sneak preview video clip of the new OS to emerge from Research In Motion. (Via: BGR).
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How has Apple come so far, how has it managed to work from being a company on life support into a force that dominates the technology industry? That