An annual "Singles Day" sales event held by China's search giant Alibaba racked up record-breaking sales, countering the idea that consumer sales in China are weak. But more importantly to Apple observers: iPhone sales lead other smartphone brands, pushing Huawei into second place and Xiaomi into third place.
Nearly a year after it opened its Downtown Brooklyn retail store, Apple has temporarily expanded its New York footprint by taking over the Howard Gilman Opera House across the street in preparation for the theatrical introduction of new products for the holiday—beyond its freshly released 2018 iPhones and Apple Watch Series 4.
Huawei has released its own custom 7nm ARM System on a Chip. But despite using the same fab process, Huawei’s Kirin 980-powered Mate 20 Pro flagship lags far behind Apple’s iPhone XS A12, turning in performance scores even well below last year’s A11 iPhone X
Analysts and commentators who spent the first half of 2018 insisting that Apple’s $999 iPhone X was suffering from "disappointing" sales because of its premium price, a supposed "lack of innovation," and controversial design choices that included a camera "notch" are now telling us that Chinese companies that struggled to profit from high volumes of cheap phones will now successfully sell expensive models with an imitative notch.
Five years ago, I described how Google was distancing itself from Android and increasingly pursuing a new strategy around Chrome OS. While that was a controversial idea at the time, Google’s latest announcements show that’s exactly what the company had been doing
Two years of Google selling "Pixel" branded versions of HTC and LG handsets have done nothing to arrest the slide that both Android licensees are seeing in their mobile sales. Will more exclusive AI features on Pixel 3 models do anything to change that?
Since iPad launched in 2010, International Data Corporation has dutifully crafted various media narratives that belittled as it as a toy, dismissed it as merely a "media consumption" device in a world that needed Windows, and disparaged it as inconsequential in a vast sea of cheap Android tablets (some of which were literally children's toys). But they were wrong, here's why.
Apple's new Macs have been roundly criticized for raising their prices using flashy new features like the Touch Bar while delivering only incremental improvements in performance. Yet when Microsoft follows the same playbook, suddenly high prices are reasonable, flashy but unnecessary features are a sign of innovation, and big performance gains aren't really necessary—welcome to the world of PC flawgic.
A new report took Apple to task for updating HomePod software rather than introducing a cheaper version to compete with Amazon and Google at the bottom of the smart speaker market. However, it also revealed that Apple new product surpassed sales of 3 million devices half way through 2018, with sales accelerating from its first quarter of availability.
Apple built and began selling its high-end OLED iPhone XS and XS Max models a month ahead of iPhone XR availability in an effort to sell users more expensive models before facing competition from its own new lower-priced, entry-level LCD phone--at least according to the columnist and the think tank that were totally wrong about iPhone X sales last year.
Financial blogs are taking serious an early claim by a Rosenblatt Securities analyst who says he’s discovered that preorders of Apple’s new iPhone XS and XS Max were "weaker compared to iPhone X preorders" a year ago. The report failed to note, however, that analyst Jun Zhang was wrong last year, too.
The leading theory is that Apple's engineers bit off more than they could byte and wow isn't Apple just incompetent these days now that Steve Jobs isn't here anymore. But there's a much more obvious reason for AirPower to never show up, an issue Jobs himself ran into multiple times.
Apple's remarkable success in iTunes and its App Stores bears striking similarity to another example of a platform developer investing in its own ecosystem: transit Value Capture. App Store Value Capture has changed the game for Apple, and is now fueling a faster rate of revenue growth for the company than all of its hardware segments combined
Despite making the hardware business look easy, Apple hasn’t always been incredibly successful in introducing new devices. But comparing its biggest hits with its worst misses helps to isolate a secret sauce that is driving demand for the company’s products globally.
Every time Apple has entered a new market segment, the wailing sirens of punditry have scrambled to scream out their logic of how impossible it will be for the company to ever get established, to meaningfully change the rules, and to succeed commercially
