A week before Apple is expected to announce iOS 7, Chitika has released some new numbers to show iOS distribution. Unlike Android and it’s newest iteration, “Jelly Bean,” which only has just over 30% distribution after almost a year since its release, iOS 6 has now reached nearly 93% for iPhones since its public release in September. iPhones running iOS 5…
We all know the iPad sells well (well other than BlackBerry’s CEO). But how well? According to a report coming out of IDC, the iPad maker’s shipments have dropped below 40% of the total tablet shipments. However, it was still at least doubling the second place manufacturer, which was without much surprise, Samsung. This however has shown that over the past…
Looking to get an iPhone 5 at AT&T? Have an old smartphone that is in good, working condition? Then you could get that iPhone 5 for 50% off the normal $199 price (for the 16GB). That’s right, AT&T is offering a new trade-in promotion. If you have an old smartphone that is less than 3 years old than you could trade it in and get 50% off not just the…
Is it any secret that Apple is one of, if not the biggest consumer technology companies in terms of revenue? Well, in case there was any doubt in the manner, it was just found that Apple accounted for nearly 20% of the total revenue in 2012 for all consumer technology sales. That is a lot of money, in case you weren’t aware. Apple outdid all the other…
How many devices run iOS 6, you ask? Nearly 300 million, that’s your answer. According to a press release from Apple today regarding the iOS 6.1 update, it says that 300 million devices are running the newest major update to the operating system, being iOS 6.x. On all of these iOS devices, there have been 9 billion photos uploaded to Photo…
Everyone seems to be putting down the iPhone recently, it seems. Remember a week or so ago there was a report on how the iPhone was no longer “cool”? Well, now another company is saying that the iPhone will reach a peak marketshare of 22% by 2014, and flatline there. This report, coming from ABI Research, makes the claim that the real…
Google has long afforded its employees a unique period called “20% time”, in which Google employees are permitted to work on their own personal projects. Many of these projects later become actual Google products, and it looks like Apple is looking to follow suit. Apple is reportedly in the beginnings of something similar, currently named “Blue Sky…
Chitika, an advertising firm, has released another report on mobile web traffic from Smartphones and Tablets. Unsurprisingly, Chitika has found that Apple devices led the pack in September and October, with an incredible 65% of all mobile web traffic in the US & Canada in October. Chitika also recently released a report based only on Smartphones,…
Apple TV has had an incredible rise in the 2012 fiscal year, almost doubling its sales since 2011. Apple’s $99 “hobby” product got a substantial upgrade in March, and it looks like that upgrade contributed to the Apple TV retaining its stride through the June quarter with a 170% increase in sales from the previous year (1.3M sales). This update…
So with all this hubbub about Maps, you would think just about every last person on this planet with iOS 6 hates it. According to a new survey, however, that isn’t true. The large majority of users actually have no problem with Apple’s new Maps application. In fact, just over 50% of users said “It hasn’t affected me at all.” If you take the two that say…
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