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      iPhone tops the 10 most popular phones in the US

      December 22, 2009 /

      iPhone beats out everybody else.The Nielsen Company has released the top performers in the tech sector for 2009. Among the company’s lists is the cell phone chart, at the top of which sits the iPhone.

      I know. I was shocked, too. Below that it’s the Blackberry 8300 series. Again, a pretty big surprise. The two most popular phones in the states this year are actual smartphones. Perhaps most surprising of all was the number three spot: the Motorola RAZR. I don’t know if people just aren’t resubbing, so they don’t replace their out-of-date phones, or if there just weren’t enough smartphone options on Verizon, the nation’s network of choice.

      Whatever the case, the RAZR is still hanging around in big numbers, but it’s getting beat out by the smartphone explosion. Manufacturers take note: people want mobile web access, so much so that the smartphone sector is finally beating the pants off feature phones.

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      iPhone, Mobile, News

      Apple to open 40-50 stores next year

      November 12, 2009 /

      Apple store.On the heels of an insane earnings report and just prior to another store opening, Apple announced today that it would open 40-50 retail locations in 2010. The announcement was part of a speech in which senior VP of retail, Ron Johnson, said the company expects a solid holiday season.

      I’d imagine so. The $1.6 billion mobile profits report blew everyone away (especially Nokia). The retail stores continue to grow with the mobile business, up 7 percent from last year and sporting $1.87 billion in profits last quarter alone. That’s a big pile of cash for a company whose yearly profits were closer to $5 billion just over a decade ago.

      The new retail stores are mostly headed outside the US. Plans have already been made for new stores in London, Paris, and two in Shanghai. The newest stateside store will open on Saturday on the upper west side of Manhattan.

      Apple, iPhone

      Apple Floats Through a Tough Quarter

      July 21, 2009 /

      Apple is shining bright.Apple’s giving the recession the finger as they coast through their fiscal Q3 with massive earnings. Everyone expected them to post big earnings from new iPhone sales, but most folks put Mac in a slump. In fact, a lot of analysts expected the company as a whole to be down on last year’s earnings. Instead, Apple blew past last year’s figures to post some relatively impressive numbers.

      One the whole, they’re up 13% over fiscal Q3 of last year. How’d they get there? Well, they sold 5.2 million iPhones this quarter, a solid 7 times what they sold in the same period last year. Overall you’re talking about a $1.23 billion net profit, compared to a meager $1.07 billion from last year.

      Even the Mac line, where analysts predicted Apple would be slowest (and ineed they were) is up 4% in sales numbers over last year. Revenues from Mac are down 8 percent though, as the company lowered prices in this quarter to shore up sales in the face of competitive advertising and falling educational sales.

      The company’s most impressive figure was their new iPhone/iPod touch installed base, which is sitting somewhere around 45 million. That’s a massive base for a wildly popular device, particularly in such a short period of time. And we can only expect that number to grow. Apple plans to have an iPhone in China within a year.

      The letdown of this story? No appearance from Jobs, who has yet to show up publicly since his return. Granted, this was a conference call earnings report, but still, it would be nice to…hear him?

      Source: Reuters

      Apple, Computers, iPhone, Music, News

      iPhone 3GS Breaks AT&T Sales Records

      July 3, 2009 /

      iPhone 3GS in black and white.Apple and AT&T took more than two months to sell the first million iPhones. The iPhone 3GS matched those numbers in just three days, making it the biggest sales weekend for AT&T, ever. AT&T celebrated the milestone with…a company wide memo. Yay?

      We still don’t have any hard and fast numbers on the 3GS, and we won’t really until Apple releases their quarterly earnings information. AT&T said they sold “hundreds of thousands” of phones through pre-orders, but there’s still no official word from either camp.

      Here’s the full text of the memo:

      iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT&T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

      Here’s a look at some of the milestones we achieved:

      * Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
      * Second-largest traffic day in our retail stores
      * Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
      * Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
      * Largest order day in att.com history
      * Largest features sales day in att.com history

      On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008–all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.

      Source: AllThingsD

      Apple, iPhone

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