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As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Apple held its quarterly earnings call earlier today. The iPhone maker has gradually building a presence in Great China, as demonstrated by the numbers coming from today’s announcement. Apple first began publishing statistics for Greater China last quarter of this year, reporting an impressive 67% year-over-year growth…
Despite Androids much larger share of the smartphone market, it has emerged today that Apple’s iOS platform is drawing in more advertising spending than its Ice Cream Sandwich flavoured rival. Mobile advertising spending is up compared to last years holiday quarter, and advertisers are favouring iOS over Android when it comes to spending. The…
The latest figures from Canalys shows that in Q1 of 2013, 13.4 billion apps were downloaded across the four major smartphone operating systems. Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry combined to produce a massive app revenue of $2.2 billion, coming from sales, purchases and subscriptions. With the biggest market share Android saw the most…
The rise to prominence of the in-app purchase is now clear for all to see, as news emerges that in app purchases account for 76% of all U.S. iPhone App Store revenue. That figure, released in a report today from Distimo, shows a huge leap in in-app revenue. In January 2012, figures showed that in-app purchases accounted for around 53% of iPhone App…
The Mac App Store is still a relatively new portal to software and games, comparatively of course. The iOS App Store launched in 2008 just under 3 years before the Mac version was launched. But, as soon as Apple had unveiled its first MacBook Air without a disk drive, we knew something was going on. The Mac version of the App Store went live in January…
As you may have heard earlier this week, the music industry actually grew in the past year for the first time since 1999. Of the $16.5 billion of revenue that was brought in by the music industry, digital downloads accounted for over $5.5 billion of the revenue, and iTunes downloads alone accounted for almost $3.5 billion. While it comes as no…
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…
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty has put out some numbers today that seem very appealing to Apple investors. According to the report, she says that if Apple could ship around 50 million units of the iWatch per year, that would amount to nearly $10-$15 billion in revenue for the Cupertino company. This would lead to around $2.50 to $4.00…
Apple’s financial performance is a topic of great debate. On the one had, the company makes more money than any other company on the planet. On the other, its stock is still not a safe bet for investors. To get some perspective on just how much money Apple makes, and how successful it is, Horace Dediu (Asymco) has created a chart comparing revenue from…
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