Horace Dediu
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I Blew it Bigtime
200k Apps by May 1 « Asymco 148apps.biz cites 191,080 apps seen appshopper.com says 192,591 apps approved www.148apps.com says 191,140 Missed by a mile. 200k by April 1st, easy. Continue reading
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Getting Misty Eyed With Memories…
On the eve of iPad sales start, and the soon-to-be classic quotes from iPad experts, it’s time to play back some of the classic iPhone expert predictions from yesteryear: “[iPhone] just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.” Continue reading
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What a Difference a Year Makes
The Amazing Recovery: Here’s Everything That’s Happened Since The Dow’s March 9, 2009 Low Total market gains: $5.6 trillion S&P 500 has climbed 58.09% or 418 points. DJIA has climbed 59.48% or 3942 points. NASDAQ has climbed 80.46% or 1041.03 points. The biggest 52 week price change by percentage was Diedrich Coffee Inc (DDRX), which Continue reading
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Music. Sweet music
iPad Death Watch : AAPLinvestors You can’t go wrong betting against this bunch. (link above reproduced below due to bandwidth issues with their servers.) “Any tablet computer, including Apple’s eagerly anticipated iPad, will face serious problems in generating big sales. Tablets look cool, but the reality is they don’t do anything new.” Michael Comeau, Minyanville, Continue reading
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Analyst: Apple To Build 5 Million iPads In First Half 2010
Apple (AAPL) is on track to build 5 million iPads in the first half of 2010, according to FBR Capital chip analyst Craig Berger. link: Apple To Build 5 Million iPads In First Half 2010, Analyst Says – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com 5 million by June sounds a lot more likely than 2 million Continue reading
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Selling Android Phones With Malware at No Extra Charge
Vodafone distributes Mariposa botnet | Panda Research Blog Pedro Bustamante: Interestingly enough, the Mariposa bot is not the only malware I found on the Vodafone HTC Magic phone. There’s also a Confiker and a Lineage password stealing malware. I wonder who’s doing QA at Vodafone and HTC these days? In the comments, Bustamante writes: Regardless, Continue reading
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Why HTC (Part II)
Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level discussions with tier-1 handset makers to underscore its growing displeasure at seeing its iPhone-related IP infringed. The lawsuit filed against HTC thus appears to be Apple’s way of putting a public, lawyered-up exclamation point on a series of blunt conversations that have been occurring behind closed Continue reading
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Analyst Cuts Nexus One Estimates by 71%
We previously estimated that Google might sell 3.5 mn Nexus One units in 2010. Initial data-points were disappointing, possibly due to limited marketing and customer service challenges. Flurry estimated (based on mobile traffic) that Google sold 20,000 in the first week, and 80,000 in the first month, both annualizing to 1.0 mn. We forecast that Continue reading
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Analyst: Palm at 10k Units a Week
Cusick says his checks find Palm is getting only about 1% share of handset sales at Verizon Wireless, or about 10,000 units a week, versus 400,000 units that were sold in to the company. At this rate, he says, there is “no prospect of Verizon follow-through” in the May quarter – and he sees weak Continue reading
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Advanced Task Killer Sounds like a Winner of an App
Now, unlike the Apple iPhone, the Droid can run more than one app at a time. This sounds like a fantastic feature, and a major selling point. Unfortunately, it is very hard to turn an app off, so it doesn’t take long for the phone to become overwhelmed. How big of a problem is this? Continue reading