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Apple Juggernaut Steams Ahead in Q3

The Apple juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. In its fiscal third quarter ended June 30, 2012, Apple sold 26 million units of its iPhones. Total sales of the iPhones since their launch in June...

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Heaven Comes to Earth – iPhone 5 Lands

Nirvana’s here. I mean, the iPhone 5. Apple has just launched the iPhone 5 in San Francisco. IPhone 5 Specs: * 4-inch screen (previous iPhones had 3.5″ screen) * Retina display of 326ppi, 1136×640...

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iPhone 5 Sales – $3.75b in 3 Days

Apple’s revenues from the iPhone 5 has amounted to roughly $3.75 billion in the first three days after the device hit the market on Friday, September 21. This is how I arrived at the above sales figure...

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Starving Beggars have Few Smartphones

Just yesterday, we read an article in an Indian newspaper that 25% of Indians go to bed hungry every night. And a few minutes back, we stumbled upon a Nielsen survey showing India with a low rate of...

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The Many Idiots Who Were Wrong on Apple

Premature obituaries on Apple have been written so many times, both on the company itself and and its dazzling offerings like the iPod, iPad and iTunes, that it’s now bordering on the tiresome to even...

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Total iPhone and iPad Sales: 2007-2013

In the spirit of noblesse oblige, SI is providing two informative tables providing total unit sales and their dollar value for the iPhone and the iPad from their launch dates. The data has been...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 – Another Nail in iPhone’s Coffin

Samsung is launching Galaxy S4, the newest model of its smartphones at Radio City Music Hall in New York City this evening. Coincidentally, SI happens to be in NYC today. As I wander around Times...

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Steve Jobs Screaming, Howling in His Grave; Samsung Debuts Galaxy S4 Phone in...

Unconfirmed reports have it that screaming, banshee wails were heard this evening in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is buried. The manic screams in Palo Alto...

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Apple – Unbearable Agony Ahead?

In slightly over seven months, Apple shareholders have lost a mind boggling $283.78 billion. I doubt there’s been anything like it in the history of stock markets. Apple’s share price, which peaked at...

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Apple’s Profits Fall, Placates Irate Investors with $55b in New Cash Sops

Apple reported results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 30,2013 and they are not pretty. The company’s profits for the quarter fell 18% to $9.5 billion ($10.09 a share) from $11.6 billion...

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Feature Phones – Beginning of the End; Samsung is King of Smartphones

Smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, the first time that over half the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. In the first quarter, smartphones...

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How to Market Smartphones to Hanumans

Selling electronic gadgets to Hanumans scampering down from coconut trees, mango trees, neem trees, guava trees, palm trees, jack-fruit trees and a thousand other kinds of Indian trees is not an easy...

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Gimmickry – Sony Xperia ZR Smartphone

Smartphones are entering the irritating terrain of gimmickry with features that most of us don’t care about, will not use or that just don’t work. In a desperate attempt at boosting sales, most of the...

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Death’s Icy Fingers Inch Closer to BlackBerry

For how much longer will Vivek Bhardwaj, BlackBerry’s Head of Software have a job? If I were to guess, not more than 12-months to 18-months. My prediction is that BlackBerry is in an unstoppable death...

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Hot iPhone Deals at Walmart, AT&T

Yes, you can now get the iPhone 5 for just $99. If you cheapo desis have been sitting on the sidelines, undecided on whether to get an iPhone or upgrade to the iPhone 5, there are a bunch of attractive...

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Larger Screens Will Not Stem iPhone Marketshare Decline

Media twits, little and big, are getting their jetties (knickers) in a twist over Apple’s rumored plans to launch a larger screen iPhone. Apple is said have asked its suppliers in Asia to provide...

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Apple Proves Naysayers Wrong

Bring ‘em on! That was the strong message Apple sent to the Samsungs, Sonys, Motorolas, HTCs and other Android vendors nipping at its heels. Apple sold 31.2 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter...

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History Created! India, Brazil Push Google Play Downloads Ahead of Apple App...

Driven by strong downloads from smartphone and tablet users in India and Brazil, app downloads from the Google Play app store were higher than from Apple’s App Store in the second quarter of 2013. This...

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Moto X Not a Game Changer

Considering Google paid a whopping $12.5 billion for the Motorola acquisition, I’m disappointed with the new Moto X smartphone. Launched yesterday, Moto X is the first smartphone offering from Motorola...

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Tech News Has Lost All Sense of Proportion

News loses all meaning when journalists consider everything related to Apple as earth-shattering developments. Over the last 48-hours, bloggers and journalist from across the world, but mostly here in...

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