Author: dsellers

Apple ranked fourth out of all the top 100 online retail sites, behind Netflix, Amazon, and Avon in ForeSee Results’ annual Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index (http://www.foreseeresults.com).

Satisfaction with Top 100 e-retailers rebounded from a dive this time last year, to an all-time high score of 78 points out of 100, a five point year-over-year increase. According to ForeSee Results, consumers are more satisfied with their online experiences than ever before. Nearly every individual retailer registered a score that matched or exceeded previous satisfaction levels.

Quattro Wireless, an Apple subsidiary that’s developing the iAd program, is promoting a new “Verification of iTunes Purchase” feature as a competitive advantage enabling iPhone app developers to link to iTunes to obtain data on download conversion rates, according to “TechCrunch” (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/apple-vip-ad/).

In an online blog (http://robertreich.org/post/572112065/apple-isnt-the-problem-wall-streets-big-banks-are), Robert Reich, former secretary of labor, blasts the Federal Trade Commissions’ purported investigation of Apple.

He asks why the FCC threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?

Carl Howe, a director for the Yankee Group’s Anywhere Consumer research group (http://www.yankeegroup.com) says the iPad is the fastest product ramp to US$1 billion. Apple announced on Monday that it has sold more than one million iPads since its announcement on Jan. 27.