Apple’s figures for Q3 2010 (everything up to June 26 two days after the new iPhone 4 went on sale) show a dip in quarterly iPhone sales on Q2 but it’s a significant increase on Q3 sales for 2009. And despite Antenna-gate, Apple are bullish on their prospects for Q4 and are promising more new…
Tag: iPad
News
BBC News iPad app hits 1 million downloads
MobileIQ the developers of the BBC News iPad app announced that the app had hit 1 million downloads. The 1 million download landmark was hit in less that 15 weeks from the apps launch on April 3 and it was all driven by users outside of the UK. The app was available on day one…
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Tablet computers to ship over 11 million in 2010
When ABI Research first examined the media tablet market in February, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released. Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost tripling the original estimate to reach about 11 million tablets expected to ship by the end of 2010, with the majority of the…
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Apple iPad estimates just get bigger and bigger
Hot on the heels of our iPad sales story of yesterday where analyst and managing director at Rodman & Renshaw Ashok Kumar predicted iPad shipments to more than double to 27 million units in 2011, we now get yet another analyst re-analysing their figures, and this time it’s slightly less, but it’s still a hell…
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Keep taking the tablets, all 27 million of them
The tablet/slate market is going to go crazy in the next couple of quarters with a tablet expected from Research In Motion (RIM), slates from Microsoft partners running Windows 7 due at the end of the year, and iPad sales estimated to hit 27 million units in 2011. Yes, we really did say 27 million.…
Analysis, News
Can you hang on a minute I’m multitasking
Mobile’s are encouraging us all to multitask so says a new Nielsen/Yahoo survey on US surfing, watching and viewing behaviours, but advertising just isn’t stepping up to the mark. We’re multi-tasking a lot, the web is now a multi-channel world, with video, audio and text, links to Twitter, Facebook, etc and we’re all happy to…
News
iPad users are big consumers of business news
Yahoo’s Ashley Cheng has released a second analysis of iPad usage across their various services eg Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News etc and the results confirmed what we thought eg iPad users are predominantly male, middle-aged (35+) and are all crazy for news, and the UK has one of the geekiest iPad markets in the…
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iPhone and iPad users are sexy, official!!
Apple users spend more than anyone else on sex toys, statistics from the UK’s largest online sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk (Warning don’t follow this link when you’re in the office) show. LoveHoney’s web traffic, showed that iPad users have the highest average spend on sex toys, closely followed by iPhone users, then Mac users. “Apple users…
News, Video
Backup your iPad
LogMeIn Rescue can now backup your iPad, although, surely if you’re really sensible you should be saving all of your data in the cloud and using the iPads wifi and wireless capabilities. However that’s us getting nitpicky and totally missing the fact that people don’t backup as much as they should, or the actual target…
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Distimo releases the first Apple iPad app data
Distimo have launched their latest report on app usage for May 2010 and it now includes Apple iPad App store usage as well as the usual list of usual suspects. The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than…
News
iPad owners are rich, posh and southern
According to Hitwise’s latest stats round up, potential iPad and iPhone owners are rich, West London liberals. The latest Hitwise findings show UK Internet traffic to the official iPad website increased significantly in the run-up to the launch. Over 30% of visits to the site during the 4 weeks ending May 22 came from London…
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Google Docs goes mobile
Google has launched via their Googlemobile blog a mobile website version of its Google Docs viewer, which lets people read PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word docs in their browser. The site works for Android, iPhone and iPad, and lets people pan and zoom within pages, and use pinch-to-zoom on the iPhone and iPad. This is…
Comment, News
100 million Apple devices by 2011
The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…
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Daily Express creates iPad app
The ghost of Princess Diana’s favourite read, The Daily Express has launched an iPad edition. Designed by PageSuite, the app costs £7.99 to download and will give users an initial 30-day subscription to iPad editions of the Daily Express and Sunday Express. Individual editions, pages and videos can be downloaded to view offline. Additional features…
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Sun iPad application
Rupert Murdoch’s favourite newspaper The Sun has launched an Apple iPad app, and the world has to wonder just how many Sun readers are going to a) have an iPad and b) will fork out £5 a month for the privilege of downloading the paper. The app launched today costs £4.99 ($7.99 in the US)…
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iPad bandwagon jumping volume 1 number 23 – Tailoring?
Now this is an interesting use of the iPad, an overpriced notepad, we think not. It’s just another desperate attempt to surf the wave of iPad publicity. Bespoke mens tailor King & Allen,are suing the Apple iPad in their shop to “improve and enhance the customer buying experience” which equates to they’re using it to…
News
Dixons almost sold out of iPads
If you don’t have an Apple store in your town and you want to get an iPad from PC World then forget it. iPad wi-fi versions are available in slightly larger quantities than the 3G versions but we’re talking one or two more. If you want a 3G version you need to spend the full…
Analysis, News
Mobile app revenues to exceed $30 billion by 2015
Analysts Juniper Research www.juniperresearch.com forecast that, the combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including “freemium” and subscription) and advertising, including apps on portals and dedicated app services like iTunes etc is expected to rise from just under $10 billion (£6.9 billion) in 2009 to $32 billion (£20.7 billion) in 2015.…
News
UK iPad launch surpasses US launch
Web watchers, Quantcast, have published early figures for iPad use in the UK, and they show that the UK is taking to the iPad like a duck to water, people to tablets etc. As we can see, the response so far looks very strong. According to Quantcast if you compare the US response to the…
News
Britain says no to paying for online news
Media lawyers Wiggin’s annual look at how we use digital media in the UK shows that we hate paying for news content online, we like online magazines, we’re obsessed with social media particularly Facebook, and we’re all dying to make Steve Jobs the happiest man on Earth. According to the survey while TV watching still…