'Smart device' shipments hit 308.7 million units, says Canalys

• Report: Google captured 51% of app downloads in Q1. Apple took 74% of the revenue.

  Overall, quarterly downloads were up 11% and revenues up 9%.

  FORTUNE -- Canalys on Monday issued a report on app downloads at four major mobile stores: Google (GOOG) Play, Apple's (AAPL) App Store, Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone Store and Research in Motion's (BBRY) BlackBerry World.

  The news was good for Google and Apple. For Microsoft and BlackBerry, not so much.

  Among the findings:

  App downloads at the four stores totaled 13.4 billion in Q1, up 11% MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 8, 2013 11:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, BlackBerry, Canalys, Google, Microsoft, mobile apps

• Chart of the day: Apple as the world's No. 1 PC maker

  This assumes you believe that iPads and Kindle Fires are personal computers

  FORTUNE -- Market researchers at Canalys made headlines Wednesday when they reported that Apple (AAPL) was the world's No. 1 personal computer manufacturer in Q4 2012 with shipments of 27 million PCs -- almost twice as many as No. 2 Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).

  It was a finding that flew in the face of the "Apple is doomed" meme, and only makes sense if you MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 7, 2013 5:46 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon, Apple, Canalys, HP, iPad, Kindle Fire

• Canalys: Android apps cost 2.5X more than iPhone apps

  The top 100 paid apps total $374.37 on Android Market, $147 on the Apple App Store

  Here's a puzzler.

  Although conventional wisdom has it that Apple (AAPL) iPhone users are more inclined to pay for apps than the owners of Google (GOOG) Android phones, a survey released Thursday by the market research firm Canalys found that Android apps cost, on average, more than two and a half times as much as iPhone MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 23, 2012 11:26 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Android Market, App Store, App Store (iOS), Apple, Canalys, Electronic Arts, Google, iPhone

• Canalys: Apple led the way as smartphones overtook PCs

  Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011

  Canalys singled out Apple (AAPL) for special mention Friday when it announced that by its count, shipments of smartphones in 2011 overtook those of client computers, even when tablets are included.

  "Apple's impressive end to the year resulted in it becoming the leading smart phone and client PC vendor in Q4 2011, with shipments of 37.0 million iPhones, MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 3, 2012 11:49 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, Canalys, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Nokia, PCs, Tablets

• Top Android phone maker faces possible U.S. import ban next week

  Shares of HTC are down sharply in advance of a ruling on a key Apple patent suit

  HTC shipped more than 5.7 million smartphones to the U.S. last quarter, according to Canalys, beating out Samsung and Apple to become the country's leading smartphone vendor.

  So there's a lot at stake for the giant Taiwanese phone maker -- and indeed for the manufacturers of all Google (GOOG) Android phones -- in the ruling MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 5, 2011 7:41 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, Canalys, Florian Mueller, FOSS Patents, Google, HTC, International Trade Commission, iPhone, ITC, Mobile, Patents, Steve Jobs

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  * Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky issued an unconditional apology to an Airbnb host whose apartment was reportedly trashed and robbed. In addition, the company is also issuing a $50,000 guarantee against damages to hosts. The "Airbnb Guarantee" will apply to reservations starting August 15 but also retroactively cover MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 2, 2011 3:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Airbnb, Apple, Brian Chesky, Canalys, iCloud, iPhone, Javascript

• Apple overtakes Nokia to become the world's No. 1 smartphone maker

  The next contender: Samsung, whose Android phones are gaining fast

  The companies that track mobile phone sales are just now catching up to the news that came out of Apple's (AAPL) last week. According to the company's Q3 earnings report, Apple sold nearly 20.24 million iPhones last quarter, up 142% from the same quarter last year.

  On Thursday, IDC reported that that makes Apple the world's No. 4 manufacturer of all mobile MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 29, 2011 8:06 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, Canalys, Google, IDC, iPhone, LG, Mobile, Nielsen, Nokia, Samsung Group, Strategy Analytics

• Apple took 74% of tablet market in Q1

  Counting the iPad, its PC sales grew 187.9% year over year, according to Canalys

  "Canalys today announced that the PC market grew 7% in Q1 2011, as the pad market, led by Apple's iPad, continued to bolster growth."

  That's how Canalys, the first research firm to count tablets as PCs, began its report on how the market shaped up in the first calendar quarter of 2011.

  Thanks to the iPad, Apple (AAPL) jumped MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 28, 2011 7:20 AM ET
  Posted in: Acer, Apple, Canalys, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, iPhone, PCs, Personal computer, Tablets

• Apple is still sucking most of the profit out of the mobile phone business

  In the fourth quarter of 2010, the iPhone had 4.2% market share and took 51% of the profit

  On the same day that Canalys reported that Google's (GOOG) Android had become the world's leading smartphone platform in Q4 2010 -- with 33.3% of market share to Nokia's (NOK) 31% and Apple's (AAPL) 16.2% -- Asymco's Horace Dediu posted the chart at right that puts Android's growth in perspective.

  It shows the percentage MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 31, 2011 9:50 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, Canalys, Google, iPhone, Market Share, Mobile, Nokia, Smartphones