Smartphone users are downloading increasing numbers of apps, and more of the apps they download come at a price. The result is a supercharged mobile app gold rush that’s shattering Yankee Group’s (http://www.yankeegroup.com) previous revenue estimates and reaching a whopping US$11 billion by 2014.
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Apple has won patents from the US Patent & Trademark Office for the Aperture tool for straightening digital images and for a computer housing design that displays the illuminated Apple logo. Aperture is the company’s software for pro and semi-pro photographers.
Read MoreSome pundits have said that Apple is in danger of becoming the next Microsoft — as in “evil empire” Microsoft. I personally don’t think that’s going to happen, but find the possibility fascinating.
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By Gaurang Donovan
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In a note to clients today, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects Mac sales for the current fiscal quarter to beat the Street’s estimates and anticipates iPod sales will meet those estimates. He bases his prognosis on data from the NPA research group.
Munster says that NPD retail data points to sales of 2.8 to 2.9 million Mac units sold for the March quarter. The Street estimate is 2.7. Munster is forecasting Mac unit growth of 26 to 315 year-over-year.
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