The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that had listed the world’s five largest mobile phone manufacturers. Nokia, quite unsurprisingly, had the top slot while Research In Motion and Sony Ericsson had their spots [...]

Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google’s claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by claiming that Apple was a notch higher – activating 230,000 devices. As both the companies have clarified, this number does not include OS upgrades and is hence a likely [...]

Apple has reported extremely impressive results for the last quarter. The most critical pointer is that the company’s revenue is no longer dependent on just three major products. Instead, with the iPad, there is a comfortably big fourth product. So much of the revenues does each of these four products contribute? Here is a breakdown [...]

From the outset, the numbers are pretty evident – The app developer stands to earn 70% of the price of an app and Apple earns 30%. But Steve Jobs has also mentioned in the past that the company is running the App Store at more or less break even. Is that true? A study by [...]

Don’t accuse me of stereotyping people, but isn’t it a generic observation that older people are less technological savvy than the younger lot – and that the older people tend to go much more with the herd than the younger people who tend to look into the details much more keenly before purchasing a gadget? [...]

AdMob has published its latest list where it has looked into the distribution of iPhone devices worldwide. The study reiterates what we already know – that the iPhone is most popular in North America where close to half of all iPhone OS devices are sold. And quite evidently, another quarter of all devices is sold [...]

The iPad was launched on April 3rd and since then over 600,000 iPads have been sold. Distimo has also noted that there are over 200,000 apps on the App Store now with close to 4,870 iPads apps. Of these, 3,437 apps are iPad-specific apps while 1,433 are universal. Here is a category-wise break down of [...]

Apple just released their latest quarterly earnings report and we had already written, the company has clocked its highest earnings in a non-holiday quarter. $5.5 billion of Apple’s revenues in the latest quarter came from the sale of iPhones. That’s 8.75 million iPhones sold between January – March 2010 In the same period last year, [...]

Following up with Apple’s Quarterly revenues distribution by geography, it also an interesting study to look at it from the product perspective. While the recently announced Q2 listings has not taken iPad into account (launched on April 3), revenues from other devices still look strong. Here is a split up of Apple’s revenues based on [...]

Apple has just announced its latest quarterly earnings. It is apparently the company’s highest ever earnings outside the holiday season. Also impressive is its growth from other geographies, especially Asia Pacific (outside Japan) where revenues grew 184% in the past one year. Here are the revenues reported by geography for Q2 2010. The YoY growth [...]