If you count the iPad and iPod touch, it looks like iOS by about 1.6 million units
Estimates based on Flurry Analytics and Google tweets
Without a press release from Apple (AAPL) crowing about their Christmas sales, we're forced to rely on data from a mobile analytics firm and tweets from a Google (GOOG) senior vice president to make some rough guesses.
Here's what we know:
But this is just guesswork, and it doesn't take into account sales of Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire, which wouldn't show up in Google's accounting of Android activations. We'll get hard numbers in January when Apple reports its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2012, which ends Saturday.
Cupertino's largest acquisition since it bought Steve Jobs' NeXT in 1997
According to Reuters, Apple (AAPL) has sealed the deal that was rumored last week to buy Anobit, the Israeli company that makes the flash memory technology used in Apple's iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs.
For Apple, this is a big acquisition, both in dollar terms and in technology. The price -- a reported $500 million -- is larger than the $472 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 20, 2011 6:40 AM ET
Biggest savings on Macs. Best deals on accessories. But beware the malware.
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Apple (AAPL) posted its Black Friday sale prices at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time Friday and they were exactly as rumored.
The savings on Apple-branded products range from a high of 15.94% on $69 accessories like the Magic Trackpad to 7.02% -- less than the sales tax in 25 states -- on the $299 Time Capsule 2TB.
A guide to the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 25, 2011 6:30 AM ET
The iPod touch (30%) and iPhone (27%) came in second and third in the 2011 wish list
Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen
Apple's (AAPL) iPad topped a new Nielsen survey of the most desired electronics products among young Americans this holiday season.
Among kids 6-12, Apple scored a hat trick, with the iPad (44%) first, the iPod touch (30%) second and the iPhone (27%) third.
In a similar survey last year, the iPad came MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2011 1:12 PM ET
Who needs a staffer when you can scan, pay and walk out of the store unattended?
A typical afternoon crowd at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. Photo: PED
[UPDATE: The new version of the Apple Store app finally arrived Tuesday, Nov. 8, a few days later than expected. You can get it here.]
Apple (AAPL) has two problems its competitors would kill for: 1) It can't build new product fast enough to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 2, 2011 10:44 AM ET
StatCounter's number is lower, but shows Apple's mobile share surging 33.6% since July
Sources: Net Applications, StatCounter. Chart: PED
The presence of Apple's (AAPL) mobile devices on the Web surged this summer and early fall according to Net Applications and StatCounter, two leading mobile analytics services, although the two firms draw very different conclusions about where that leaves competing platforms.
Net Applications, which monitors hits on its 40,000 client sites and weighs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 1, 2011 7:59 AM ET
And where is Android? Still trailing Java ME, according to Net Applications
Data: Net Applications. Chart: PED
You would think that with nearly 50% of the global market for smartphones that Google's (GOOG) Android would also dominate the Web.
Not so, according to a report issued Saturday by Net Applications.
When measured against other smartphone/tablet operating systems, Apple's (AAPL) iOS accounts for more than half of the visits to its clients' 40,000 websites MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 1, 2011 12:28 PM ET
Among smartphone operating systems, iOS' worldwide share grew nearly 30%
Data: Gartner. Chart: PED
Apple's share of the worldwide mobile phone market (smart and not-so-smart) nearly doubled year over year in the second quarter of 2011, from 2.4% to 4.6%, according to a report issued Thursday by Gartner, Inc. That put Apple (AAPL) in fourth place among mobile phone vendors, well behind Nokia (NOK), Samsung and LG.
Apple's share of the rapidly-expanding MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 11, 2011 8:51 AM ET
Sold a record 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs
Apple's (AAPL) third fiscal quarter was bigger than the most optimistic estimates. Even without a new iPhone to drive sales, revenues, earnings and profits were bigger than the biggest Christmas quarter.
Apple also announced that OS X Lion is coming tomorrow (Wednesday).
The iPhone and iPad numbers were huge surprises. Sales of the iPod, as expected, continued to fall. Only MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 19, 2011 4:57 PM ET
For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement
Source: Company reports, Piper Jaffray
iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since.
The quarter that ended nearly three weeks ago is likely to continue that trend, according to the 43 analysts -- professional and amateur -- we polled in advance of our quarterly earnings smackdown.
For once, the two MORE
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