There has been quite a war between Apple and Samsung in regard to patents.  Recently, Apple has been awarded a massive jury verdict against the South Korean company.  The federal jury in the US granted Apple $538 million. Back in 2012, Apple won a federal jury verdict of over $1 billion for various patent and design infringements …

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Apple announced a revenue of $52.9 billion, which was up versus last year, but short of analyst expectations of $53 billion.  But on a good note, Apple beat earnings per share estimates y $0.08. The company sold just under 51 million iPhones in the first quarter, lower than the 53 million analysts had expected.  Apple smartphone sales …

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According to the data that StatCounter has collected the Android OS has now passed Microsoft Windows as the global leading operating system.  This data reflects “total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile combined.” Window’s global OS share was 37.91 compared to Android’s 37.93 percent.  But, in North America, Windows had a 39.5 percent share, followed …

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Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings have been released,   Apple’s revenues of $46.9 billion are in lne with the modest expectations of analysts; earnings per share of $1.67 beat expectations.  However, the company has reported their first YoY revenue decline since the iPhone was first introduced. Revenues were off nearly $9 billion vs. last year.  The stock …

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Digital media time has really grown over the last two years, but what has been driving this growth?  In short, it’s been driven by mobile and apps in particular.  But it seems that the world apps is much smaller and more concentrated than the PC internet. 58 percent of amount of time consuming digital media is …

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On July 27, Apple reported their fiscal 2016 third quarter results.  They company had a quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion, which was down 15 percent year-over-year.  But despite that, the good news was that this number still beat financial analyst consensus estimates.  Apple’s revenue last year was at $49.6 billion. Apple’s gross margin was also down year-over-year, …

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Ever since the iPhone 6 released, every subsequent model afterwards has dominated the active installed base of iPhones int eh US market.  Based on the information released by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP),there are roughly 110 million iPhones in the US.  Out of those 110 million, 62 million of them are iPhone 6 or later models. …

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Not too long ago, there were reports that says Apple had roughly 50 percent of all devices activations over the holidays.  There is now a press release from Apple that reports a $20 billion in App-Store earnings in 2015, as well as over $1 billion coming in the two weeks that ended January 3: In the two weeks ending …

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Flurry, a mobile analytics, monetization, and advertising company, released their holiday mobile stats showing that Apple devices captured almost half of all device activations over the 2015 holiday season.  Following Apple is Samsung with approximately 20%, Nokia with 2% and LG with 1.7%.  The difference between Apple and the rest of the competitors is huge. The percentage of …

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Last week, we got a look at the top smartphone apps of 2015 by Nielsen, and surprisingly, or perhaps not, the top ten reflects properties of only three companies – Facebook, Apple and Google. According to Nielsen, smartphone penetration grew to 80 percent in the US at the end of the third quarter.  comScore data shows penetration at about …

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