CHART OF THE DAY: If AT&T Is So Bad, Why Is It Beating Verizon Every Quarter?.
AT&T just signed up 2.63 times more subs in Q3. They’ve been adding more subs every quarter since Q1 09.
Another point is that both are adding subs. So who is losing?
A complete market overview will follow when all the top tier vendors report the last quarter, but in the mean-time here are some data that are available:
Smartphone volumes for Nokia, Apple and RIM: Continue reading
The new king of Apple analysts – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech.
My thanks to Philip Elmer-DeWitt but I think he is not right in proclaiming a King. Credit is due to all the other blogger analysts who inspire and push analysis forward.
The lines were nothing but a commercial advertisement, but they very well describe this group that opened the eyes of the world:
Here’s to the crazy ones,
the misfits,
the rebels,
the troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.They’re not fond of rules
and they have no respect for the status quo.You can quote them,
disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do
is ignore them,
because they change things.
They push the human race forward.And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do.
“Crazy Ones“, directed by Chiat/Day’s Jennifer Golub who also shared the art director credit with Jessica Schulman and Yvonne Smith. The familiar voiceover was by Richard Dreyfuss. See the video here.
The iPad outsold the Mac after two quarters in the market. It’s important to understand the effect the iPad is having on PCs. Data is trickling in that potential notebook buyers are “postponing” purchases due to the iPad. The netbook market has witnessed a significant slowing which has trickled down to the performance of everybody in the value chain, from Microsoft, to PC vendors, Intel, AMD and retailers.
So naturally we need to ask how it has affected the Mac.
The following chart shows how the iPad has outsold the Mac the past quarter. Continue reading