A new study MobiLens study from research firm comScore has revealed that there are now 136.7 million iPhone users living in the U.S., bringing Apple’s U.S. smartphone marketshare to 39%. This number has jumped 2.7 percent from 36.3 percent last quarter. What’s surprising is that the only other company among the top 5 OEMs to show a growth in brand…
A study recently conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners on 500 iPhone and 500 Samsung Galaxy SIII users shows that despite the ongoing arguments between the devices, their users are very similar. The study, conducted in the first two months of 2013, shows the usage patterns of the devices’ users. It was discovered that users of both the…
A new survey suggests that over half of the consumers polled plan to purchase Apple’s iPhone 5. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, 53.3% of the 800 survey participants reported interest in pickin’ up Apple’s latest smartphone. That number is higher than it was back in September before the iPhone 5 launched, when 47.7 of respondents had…
After iMessage’s first year ended with the release of iOS 6, a new report has hit the web claiming that iMessage (and possibly other IM apps) is causing the first decline in US text messaging in years. On Monday, mobile analyst Chetan Sharma published a report claiming that text messaging (SMS) was down for the first time in years in the third quarter of…
It’s no secret that Apple’s gadgets are popular amongst today’s youth, but I can’t help but be impressed when I see hard numbers demonstrating just how much reach Apple has with the teenage demographic. According to Piper-Jaffray’s semi-annual survey of 7,700 teenagers here in the US, a whopping 40% of participants reported iPhone ownership. What’s…
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has discovered that over the past 12 months, the tablet market has come up in leaps and bounds, with 25% of Americans now owning a tablet of some sort. It’ll come as no surprise that over half of those tablets are iPads. Although Apple does hold more than half of the sales of tablets, its market share is a…
STUDYBLUE Flashcards is an application that has been available on iPhone and Android for a little while (2009 for the iPhone), but now has finally been able to go universal and find its way to the iPad. It started as a student project from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been around since. Using the application users can make flashcards to…
In yet another round of the ultimate smartphone smackdown, the two major players – iOS and Android – faced off and Apple’s iOS platform came out on top. According to a new study from comScore’s MobiLens service, iOS was chosen over Android two to one over the last three months. Overall Android is still in the lead, with approximately 50.9% of the…
A lot of the time when application statistics are discussed, the focus is on the number of available apps and number of downloads for a given App Store. Recently, though, an interesting study from Localytics shed light on another crucial aspect of the mobile app experience: app retention. When looking at how many times an app was downloaded, you don’t…
In the fourth quarter of 2011, Manhattan Research polled 1,207 doctors in the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Italy in an attempt to better understand physicians’ use of internet-capable devices. The study found that, in total, approximately 26 percent of European physicians own Apple’s tablet. What’s more, according to analyst Christina…
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