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  • Apple links higher prices with higher sales
  • 9 days ago
  • Today's Note From Anywhere is inspired mostly by the Green Monster sign outside our office noting the opening of the world's largest Apple Store here in Boston next week.

    Elementary economics says that you build volume by cutting prices on products. But Apple's latest 10-Q filing, where it provided details of its latest record-breaking sales quarter, has a nice counterexample to that ...
  • Apple posts another record quarter -- and it isn't even the holidays
  • 23 days ago
  • Apple really has been on a tear lately, and I'm not just saying that because I got a new MacBook Pro for a great price. Apple just reported another record quarter of sales, including 2.3 million Macs, 1.7 million iPhones, and more than 10 million iPods. They reported more than $1 billion in profit for the quarter, but added nearly $4 billion in cash to its war chest.

    Not everyone may b ...
  • Changing the world, one mobile phone at a time
  • 32 days ago
  • The New York Times magazine this past Sunday took on a topic near and dear to Yankee Group's heart: "Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?" And while it will take years before we know the answer, some of the data they cited was intriguing to say the least.

    "Jan Chipchase and his user-research colleagues at Nokia can rattle off example upon example of the cellphone’s ability ...
  • The mobile phone recession?
  • 43 days ago
  • A Gizmodo author wrote a sobering analysis in Popular Mechanics of the CTIA conference on the wireless industry this week:

    It's been nearly a year since the Apple fanboys first camped out to scoop up eBay-bound iPhones, and the biggest mobile players are still trying—and failing—to mount a serious challenge to its dominance of consumers' hearts and minds. While Apple was ...
  • Check the calendar to understand RIM/Microsoft and other deals
  • 45 days ago
  • No, hell isn't freezing over, and Research In Motion isn't going Windows. Despite a posting at briefing.com claiming RIM is introducing a Windows Mobile-based Blackberry, CNBC did some fact checking and discovered it is an April Fool's joke. Joining this story are similar rumors on Microsoft adopting the iPhone OS (hah! No.), Apple adopting Windows Mobile (hah hah! No.), and Google and Richard Bra ...

 



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