Given the rumors and high expectations, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster fears the World Wide Developers Conference that Apple (AAPL) is hosting next week in San Francisco could be a "slight disappointment" to investors.
In a note to clients issued early Thursday, Munster writes that he hasn't lost faith in Apple's long-term plan to drive iPhone sales by adding new models, lowering prices and entering new markets (e.g. China).
He's just worried that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 4, 2009 7:42 AM ET
Having trouble keeping up with the flood of iPhone rumors in advance of Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference, which opens next Monday?
The Green Room Blog has done the tech world a favor and summarized them all -- or at least the ones we've heard -- in the color-coded graphic shown at right. (Click to enlarge.)
The rumors are annotated with links to the blogs and news articles that reported them. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2009 2:17 PM ET
SanDisk's Sansa media players are number two in the market, behind the iPod. Image: SanDisk
SanDisk CEO Eli Harari once plotted to dethrone the iPod with a series of "iDon't" ads a marketing campaign that cast Apple iPod users as fad-driven sheep, and promoted his company's Sansa media players as the smart alternative. Some fads, however, don't pass. And in his sunny Silicon Valley conference room one recent morning, the MORE
Jon Fortt - Jun 3, 2009 1:03 PM ET
Here's the latest on the four-way browser race to dominate the mobile Web.
The main contenders are
Apple's (AAPL) Mobile Safari, running on the iPhone and iPod touch
Opera Software's Opera Mobile, running on a variety of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile devices
Nokia's (NOK) Web Browser, running on a variety of Symbian phones
Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry Browser
According to a report issued Tuesday by StatCounter, a Dublin-based Web tracking service, Opera Mobile is back MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2009 11:34 AM ET
A pair of videos appeared on the Web Tuesday that offer a two-part primer on how to trade Apple (AAPL) shares based on technical analysis -- the science (or pseudoscience) of predicting what a stock is about to do based on what it did in the past.
If you're not familiar with such concepts as support, resistance, breakouts and Fibonacci retracements, you can learn a lot from each of them.
Unfortunately, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2009 7:28 AM ET
Here's a tale of two demographics.
If you list the five bestsellers in Amazon's "Computers and PC Hardware" category today, you get five netbooks -- three ASUS Eees and two ACER Aspire Ones. That's been the story pretty much all year.
If you list the five most popular items in "Computers and Software" on American Express's shopAmex site, you get four Apple (AAPL) products -- three MacBooks, one Apple TV and one MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2009 12:32 PM ET
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has been saying for more than a year that he expects Apple's (AAPL) to introduce a "family" of new iPhones in 2009. On Monday afternoon, less than a week before the start of WWDC, the company's annual developers conference, two reports surfaced that suggest his expectations may finally be realized.
An unnamed "trusted source" told Engadget's Chris Ziegler that the PTRCB -- the board that certifies that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2009 9:43 AM ET
Whether a new iPhone will be unveiled at Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference -- which begins a week from today -- is still an open question, but all the signs of an impending announcement are now in place.
Two weeks ago, we got specs and spot shortages (see here). Last week the leaked photos started showing up. The provenance of none of them is certain, but neither has any been MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 1, 2009 10:16 AM ET
After matching the iPhone nearly hit for hit in its first five months on the market, Google's (GOOG) Android has fallen behind the pace set by Apple's (AAPL) smartphone in terms of its presence on the Web, according to a report issued Monday.
"Android and the iPhone's browsing usage share upon launch were nearly identical for the first few months," the Web metrix firm Net Applications reports. "However, May numbers show MORE
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