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Thirty days after the launch of the iTunes App Store, Apple announced that 60 million apps were downloaded in the first month of operations generating sales of $30 million. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs said adding that it may be a “$1 billion marketplace at some point in time.” Mr. Jobs [...]

At the September 1st music event, Apple announced that 6.5 billion apps were downloaded and that there had been 120 million iOS devices sold. This works out to 54 apps per iOS device. On June 7 Apple reported 5 billion apps over 100 million iOS devices or an average of 50 apps for iOS device. [...]

According to Gartner, mini notebooks constituted less than 18.0% of the total mobile PC market in the second quarter of 2010, down from 20.0% of the total market at 2009-end. Gartner expects mini notebooks market share to drop to approximately 10.0% by 2014. However, worldwide PC shipments are projected to total 367.8 million units for [...]

“In our view, investors are missing the way BlackBerries are eating into Nokia’s messaging phone share in Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia now that the E-series demand is slowing,” he writes. “We believe the Torch is on pace for 500K units in August, via Research In Motion: MKM Still Bullish; Cites Growth Outside U.S. [...]

The latest iOS numbers and the new iPod touch launch demonstrate what a huge hit the iPod touch has become. It’s safe to assume that about half of all iPods, or between 4 and 5 million units in the current quarter, are sold as touch versions. The iPod touch has been around about as long [...]

“We are not seeing visible demand for Symbian,” she said. via Samsung says to focus on Android, bada software | Reuters. I was ready to dig into this, but the same person is quoted saying this of Microsoft’s new Windows Phone: “There is still some professional, specialized demand there,” Whaaa? Windows Phone is anything but [...]

Ghai now estimates that Apple will sell 5.75 million iPads in the quarter that ends Sept. 25, up from an earlier estimate of 5 million, and 22 million in fiscal 2011, up from 19.5 million. via The iPad as Trojan horse – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech. That’s very close to my estimate of 21 [...]

In first half of 2010, iPhone and iPod touch traffic increased from 33.9% to 41% in Finland. Apple’s devices account for a very small percent of the total phones in use in Nokia’s home country.[1] The analysis was performed by QAim on a sample of 64 million “mobile downloads”. Google Translate. Original article in Finnish. “A [...]

The world’s largest mobile-phone maker’s bonds are trading as if Nokia’s rating has been cut, with spreads over government debt widening as the company strives to develop devices with the same mass appeal as the iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry and devices based on Google Inc.’s Android software. There’s a “significant amount of risk [...]

Following up on the 300k app prediction: Total Apps Approved: 301316 Total Available Apps: 252076 Total Available iPhone Apps: 239210 Total Available iPad Apps: 23742 via iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, Deals and Discovery at App Shopper – Popular Recent Changes. Note the near 24k apps for iPad.