Last year in Q3 and Q4, Apple slipped into the number 6 spot in China’s smartphone market. However, with the launch of the iPhone 5 and different pricing models for previous iPhone versions, Apple was able to bounce back to the number 5 spot where it had been before. China is and has been one of, if not the largest market for mobile devices. Samsung, one of…
Court battle after court battle, and Samsung and Apple are finally taking it on the field – or the handset market, I should say. The New York Times is reporting that Samsung may be in the position to actually surpass Apple in terms of profits this next coming quarter. Analysts are saying that because of Samsung’s Galaxy S 4, and Apple’s waning iPhone…
Wells Fargo Securities analyst Maynard Um has today suggested that the current slowdown of iPhone sales may not be confined to Apple, arguing that it is instead a trend visible in the smartphone market as a whole. Recent Verizon figures show that its iPhone activations were up 25 percent year on year, whilst its other device were only up by 3…
A new study from ComScore shows that Apple is still top dog in the U.S. During the three months between November 2012 and February of this year, Apple controlled 38.9 percent of the Smartphone market, beating Samsung, which came second with 21.3 percent. Apple’s control of Smartphone subscribers is up 3.9 in the last 3 months, with Samsung only seeing an…
Strategy Analytics brought us the news on Sunday that Apple is currently trailing in China’s smartphone market, losing out to both Samsung and Lenovo. The data from SA showed that Apple is behind by quite a margin, too, with 11 percent of the market compared to Samsung’s 17.6%, and Lenovo’s 13.2%. Two years ago, Samsung sold 10.9 million handsets to…
If you haven’t heard about the much-argued ban on smartphone unlocking in the US that began on January 26 of this year, then you really need to get educated on the matter. Though it’s pretty self-explanatory, it’s best to make this ban clear, especially considering that it can land you 5 years in prison and a $500,000 fine, I mean, you could almost buy an…
Strategy Analytics has recently released some new data that shows that Apple has flipped the board from Q3 2012, with its iPhone 5 sitting as the world’s best selling smartphone. The data shows that the iPhone 5′s sales were over four times higher in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the year’s third quarter. In Q3 2012, Samsung’s Galaxy SIII…
We’re constantly being told stories of Apple and Samsung’s rivalry in the mobile industry, but for many, it’s difficult to understand why this rivalry exists. To help those people visualize the reason, Asymco has created the above chart, which shows operating profit from mobile devices in $billion. Simply by glancing at the chart, it’s inherently obvious…
At CES earlier this year, a company names Trakdot unveiled ‘Luggage’, its connected suitcase tracking device. The device is to act as a solution to the potential problem of losing luggage when travelling by air,giving ‘peace of mind’ to its users by giving them the ability to receive information from their “ultra-light, palm sized” Trackdot Luggage via…
Steve Wozniak is a name synonymous with Apple. He famously co-founded the company with Steve Jobs in the modest setting of a regular garage, before creating and selling the first Apple computer and going public. “The Woz” as he’s affectionately known by techies everywhere took part in an interview with German publication, wiwo.de, in which he gave his…
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