Year: 2010

Analyst: multiple US carriers could be signed for the iPhone

Posted by | Aug 23, 2010 | , |

Apple needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone’s current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.’s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday — as reported by “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/23/verizon-and-apple-at-loggerheads/?section=magazines_fortune&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmagazines_fortune+%28Fortune+Magazine%29) — but it doesn’t necessarily have to be Verizon — though that’s the company that most folks expect to become the second US carrier.

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Mac government, enterprise, home sales surge in June

Mac government, enterprise, home sales surge in June

Posted by | Aug 23, 2010 | , |

In June Apple scored its biggest gains in government, big business and the European home market, according to Needham analyst Charles Wolf, using using the second quarter number from the IDC research group. In a note to clients — as reported by “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/23/mac-enterprise-sales-surged-in-june/) — Wolf says:

° At 35%, Mac shipment growth in June easily exceeded the market’s growth rate of 20.9%.

° Mac shipments grew 31.4% in the home market, topping the market’s growth rate of 25.2%.

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Acer chairman: iPad share will drop to 20%

Posted by | Aug 23, 2010 | |

Take this one with a grain of sale: In a Chinese-language interview with the Economic Daily News — as reported by “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100823PB200.html), JT Wang, chairman of Acer, said that he expects Apple’s iPad market share to drop from close to 100% currently to only 20%-30% after the tablet PC market stabilizes.

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‘MUG Event Calendar’: Dr. Mac, ‘free and cheap,’ more

Posted by | Aug 23, 2010 | |

August starts to wind down on “The MUG Event Calendar.” Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will make a virtual visit to an Ohio group, while a California group will focus on Apple’s Mail program, and a Florida group will consider what is “free and cheap.”

Other topics up for discussion this week include Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps, web browsers, digital photography, and a film project using the Red digital camera.

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