Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Apple’s cost of the iPhone has been inching up and it appears that the new iPhone 4S is the most expensive iPhone to build since the original iPhone in 2007.

Apple likes thin devices and considers the depth of the iPod, iPhone and iPad as a critical component of the aesthetic appearance of a product and has been very aggressive in finding ways to trim fat from its portable devices: The 3.5 mm audio-connector stands in the way of future design improvements: Apple suggests to simply cut it in half.

Apple may only be accounting for 25% of smartphones sold in the U.S. at this time, but that is enough to dwarf all of its rivals in profits.

Market researchers from Nielsen said that Android has captured a 39% market share in the U.s. in June of this year, which makes it the unchallenged smartphone platform on these shores.

You can’t deny the smashing success Apple has had with the iconic iPhone. Since it was launched in 2007, more than 100 million iPhones have been sold and the revolutionary device now accounts for about 40% of Apple’s sales. But Google has caught and passed Apple in the number of cell phones running its operating system and is adding 500,000 devices per day to its ranks. That has some Apple watchers calling for a cheaper iPhone to compete with free (with a contract) Android phones. Should Apple listen?

There is always a way to blame someone else. Apple denies that it is tracking the location of iPhone users, which really appears to be a problem of semantics. However, pigs do fly as the company responded to recent concerns of privacy violations over location tracking and Apple noted that it will make changes to the way it stores location data.

Who would have thought that? Market research firm Nielsen just posted survey results that indicate that consumers are now preferring an Android phone over an iPhone. Few people want a Windows phone.

In this country’s most popular sport, Apple has been slapped with a lawsuit over the recently reported location tracking activity that is built into every iPhone and iPad.

The white iPhone may go on sale on Wednesday. Analysts predict another wave of stock market gains for Apple. Go get a white iPhone, give it to your children and grand children for the year 2072 edition of Antiques Roadshow.

Apple reported another stunning quarter result that puts the company on track of $100 billion in sales this year. Apple shrugged off concerns that the current trend is just a blip in time and that Android would become a second Windows for Apple. There are also signs that Apple will become even more secretive about its products and what makes them successful, while the company is openly confirming that it is denying its users access to certain information and services.

When Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s iPad, his confession that its cellular access would be available only through AT&T brought audible groans from the audience.

Often we get so tied up in looking at individual companies that we don’t step back and look across the technology eco-system and see the much bigger picture.  Individually, AMD fired its CEO, COO, and head of strategy, Microsoft’s CMO is being replaced, Google is being turned back over to its founder, Acer’s president was fired, and Steve Jobs has likely left Apple. The causes aren’t related, but this is, collectively, a huge power shift across the technology industry and it is likely to have a big impact.