Apple's in-store sales fell sharply from 2008, but its online store traffic soared
Apple's busy Fifth Ave. store. Photo: ped
A pair of reports from Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster tell the story.
The first, issued early Monday morning, gave the results of a headcount performed at three Apple (AAPL) retail stores on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday selling season. Although the stores were busy, his team counted an average MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 30, 2009 10:20 AM ET
Smartphones linked to a big Belgian heist are being unloaded in batches of 100
Russian bloggers report that Apple (AAPL) iPhones in mint condition are being offered in batches of 100 at "knockdown" prices to wholesalers in Moscow's notorious Gorbushka electronics marketplace.
Because the phones are unlocked and have Belgian model numbers they are believed to be swag from the largest iPhone heist to date -- an industrial-scale B&E in which thieves MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 30, 2009 6:56 AM ET
But some people may not be getting the computers they hoped for this holiday season
Image: Amazon.com
On the eve of Cyber Monday, Apple (AAPL) Macs held the top three spots on Amazon's (AMZN) "Most Wished For" laptop list, as well as the top four spots on the desktop computer wish list.
But wishes are not horses -- or premium-priced Macs -- and judging from Amazon's "Most Gifted" lists, some of those MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 29, 2009 6:59 AM ET
Apple's smartphone lands with a bang in Korea as pre-orders approach 65,000
Seoul iPhone launch. Photo: news.naver.com
After China's muted reception, Koreans greeted the launch of the iPhone Saturday in the style to which Apple (AAPL) has become accustomed. Hundreds of customers lined up, some as long as 26 hours in advance, to pick up the country's first batch of 1,000 iPhones amid helium-filled balloons, flashing strobe lights and a blaring MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 28, 2009 7:18 AM ET
Will tomorrow's PC be a nimble netbook or a high-def laptop? Google and AMD recently offered opposing views.
If Google has its way, the mainstream PC of the future will be a lot simpler than the one you're using right now.
Like a TV, it will turn on almost instantly instead of taking nearly a minute to boot up. It will do everything through a web browser, pulling down most programs and MORE
Jon Fortt - Nov 25, 2009 9:00 AM ET
It took the iPod 17 quarters to reach 30 million units. The iPhone did it in 10.
iPod quarters date from fiscal Q1 2002; iPhone from Q3 2007. Source: Company reports
Thanks to AAPLinvestors' Terry Gregory for gathering the data from Apple's (AAPL) quarterly reports. You can see his spreadsheet here.
Below the fold: A version of the chart that extends the iPod numbers to the end of fiscal 2009.
UPDATE: Also, per MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 25, 2009 8:02 AM ET
Electronic mail is so 1996. Will "Waving" replace it?
Email is antiquated. We need a better way to get things done online than hitting "reply all" to long message chains and sending constantly updated attachments.
Google aims to make waves in email. Image: Google.
Google (GOOG) is attempting to solve this program with a new service called Google Wave. Announced at a developers' conference last May, the software application and computing MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Nov 25, 2009 6:00 AM ET
The iPhone leads the pack, Android is gaining, everybody else is losing share
Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob
It's been a year since Google (GOOG) released Android OS, the open-source smartphone operating system widely perceived as the most likely to overtake Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in the long run.
As it happens, Google this month also purchased AdMob, the world's largest purveyor of mobile phone advertising. So this seemed as good a time MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 24, 2009 8:31 AM ET
Corporate venture capital is one of the corners of the VC world that runs extremely hot and cold. When the startup world is gathering interest and money, practically every large company - even some small outfits - trots out its own venture investment group. But just as fast as they pile in with their corporate cash, the suits also run for the exits when times get dicey.
Take the previous tech MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Nov 24, 2009 7:18 AM ET
Apple underscores one of the strengths of AT&T's cellular network
Image: Apple Inc.
Scheduled to air on primetime TV Monday night are a pair of Apple (AAPL) iPhone advertisements that highlight one of the few things AT&T's (T) network can do that Verizon's (VZ) can't: surf the Web in the middle of a phone conversation.
(AT&T's GSM network allows simultaneous voice and data connections; Verizon's CDMA network does not.)
The spots -- MORE
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