The iPhone has changed the smartphone industry, but Verizon hasn’t changed its mind about Apple, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum.
“Interestingly enough, not because Apple isn’t giving it to them but, for the most part, because Verizon doesn’t want it,” Gelblum told “TheStreet” (http://www.thestreet.com/story/10713347/1/verizon-iphone-maybe-never.html),
Read MoreWith the launch of the Apple App Store in mid-2008, Apple managed to reinvent the smartphone application market, creating an end-to-end solution (iPhone/iPod touch, iTunes Store and applications) that dramatically improved the customer experience of application discovery, download and usage.
Since 2007, the smartphone application market has grown annually by 140%, reaching a value of US$1.94 billion (2009). However, the market is still in its early stages. The top five application stores represent 96% of the market’s downloads, with Apple alone responsible for 77% of total downloads.
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Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing”: a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd,” according to “Online Media Daily” (http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=125076).
It sounds as if there’s a potential market to be taped by Apple: Central and Eastern Europe, where the number of personal computers is expected to grow significantly over the next four years.
Uptake of fixed and mobile broadband services will grow at a compound annual rate of 20% in the regions through 2014 as governments roll out more aggressive Internet connectivity policies in the wake of new guidelines covering expansion of telecom services, according to a new report from Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com), according to a new report from the author.
Read MoreMost of the media focus is on the iPad and iPhone these days, but you shouldn’t underestimate the importance of the Mac in Apple’s growth picture.
According to a recent Piper Jaffray report, analyst Gene Munster says Mac sales grew 39% during the months of January and February 2010 when measured year over year. Munster says that NPD retail data points to sales of 2.8 to 2.9 million Mac units sold for the March quarter.
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