Mobile data analysts Quantcast have released their monthly figures for vendor and operating systems and once again Apple is on top of the vendors, but when it comes to operating systems Google’s Android is starting to fight back. Quantcast’s May figures for operating systems show Apple’s IOS at 72.6% with RIM at 10% and Android…
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Apple takes 600,000 pre-orders on first day
Apple has said that it took more than 600,000 orders yesterday. It’s not apparent if this is Worldwide or just in the US. If it’s in the US then Apple took in something in the order of $150 million (£101 million) in orders – others have speculated Apple’s takings to be over $300 million (£202…
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Jamie Oliver is in Apple’s top five apps of the year
The Apple WWDC jamboree is finally over for another year, and to mark the end of the fun they just awarded prizes for the apps they consider to be the very best of the best. Each year, Apple awards the iPhone apps that have excelled in design, whatever type of app or game they might…
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Getjar hits a billion downloaded apps
Less than 24 hours after Apple announced that their 100 million iPhone and iPod Touch “IOS” devices had collectively downloaded 5 billion apps, and created $1 billion dollars of revenue, app store GetJar announces their own set of records. GetJar (www.getjar.com), is now calling itself the world’s second largest app store, and has announced that…
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iPhone 4 goes to O2
O2 are to announce an upgrade deal for iPhone users who want to get hold of the latest iPhone 4.0. Just moments after Steve Jobs completed the announcement of the device we’ve all been calling “the device that the guy left in the bar”, and that we’ve all seen for the last month on Gizmodo…
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Smartphone sales on the rise
iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…
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iPhone 4G to sell 19.5 million in first year
Apple could ship over 24 million iPhones in 2010 and 19 million next-generation 4G iPhones according to a new report in Digitimes. The Digitimes number includes shipments of 4.5 million units shipped in the first half of 2010 before the new model is launched. With as many as 19.5 million next-generation iPhones in the second…
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iPad sales to top 10 million in 2010?
Encouraging analyst figures, and the crack-like desire that seems to come over people on first seeing and touching an iPad, can only mean one thing, huge sales for the iPad in 2010. The only question we’re asking is not how many millions will it sell, but will it sell in to the double million figures…
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UK leads Europe in Smartphone race
comScore released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. Whilst growth can be seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, the mid to low tier is growing faster than…
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Apple to launch personal advertising network
Apple is expected to reveal the first fruit from its purchase of ad network Quattro. The new personalised, mobile advertising system humourlessly described as the iAd by newswire Online Media Daily is expected to be officially unveiled to the madmen of Madison Avenue on April 7th. The ad platform has been described as “revolutionary” and…
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The secrets of App store pricing revealed
The latest Distimo Report, based on February 2010 data has some interesting reading, especially if you’re looking at building Apple apps. The monthly report focuses on the worldwide Apple App Store and it finds that the more expensive the app, the more popular the app is – obviously there’s a limit here – in Europe,…