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Droid is now $50
Feb 25, ’10
4:15 PM
But… it has multitasking!
Feb 25, ’10
2:19 PM
Palm warns of 30% miss on estimates.
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Palm Inc. said it expects that adjusted revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 will be in the range of $300 million to $320 million. The average estimate of analyts surveyed by Bloomberg was for adjusted third-quarter revenue of $409.3 million. The company said revenue for the quarter and full year are being affected by “slower than expected consumer adoption of the company’s products.”
link: Palm Sees Third-Quarter Adjusted Revenue $300 Mln to $320 Mln – Bloomberg.com
App Stores Grow Dramatically, Ovi Climbs to Third Place
Feb 25, ’10
8:22 AM
The last four months have seen tremendous app growth. Apple grew by 59k apps while Android added nearly 10k and Nokia added 5.5k apps to Ovi.
As a percent, Palm grew the fastest with 1,352%, followed by Ovi with 827%. The slowest growing was actually Blackberry App World with a mere 56% growth.
More curious is the popularity of certain categories. Games and Books are dominant in the App Store, while Personalization and Music account for more than half of Ovi (ringtones and wallpapers?)
Finally, in terms of catalog ranking overall, Ovi climbed the league table to third spot behind Apple and Android and overtaking Blackberry App World. Palm overtook Windows Mobile Marketplace which is now dead last with 693 apps.
link: Distimo Mobile World Congress 2010 Presentation – Mobile Application Stores State of Play
HP continues to say that it is serious about smartphones
Feb 24, ’10
8:57 PM
The consequences of licensing a mobile OS:
Sales of H.P.’s hand-held products, including its iPaq smartphone, dropped to $25 million in the quarter, down from $57 million in the same period last year. Apple, by contrast, had sales of $5.6 billion for iPhones and related products during its most recent quarter.
To put it in more perspective, $25 million at an ASP of $350 a phone means HP sold about 70k phones last quarter, or what Apple sold every 17 hours.
link: Hewlett-Packard, a Technology Powerhouse, Stumbles in Smartphones – NYTimes.com
From Apple Computer Inc to Apple (Mobile) Inc
Feb 24, ’10
6:16 PM
Tim Cook confirmed at a Goldman Sachs press conference yesterday that Apple is calling themselves a “mobile device company” officially. The “traditional model” of having companies sell different things — hardware, software, peripherals — just doesn’t work on today’s world, according to Cook. So Apple is no longer a computer company, or an OS maker, or a media giant. Its main focus is mobile devices.
link: Tim Cook: Yes, we’re a “mobile device company”
