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Apple's iPhone 'dead in the water'? Really?

A second look at the claim that Apple's four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift

Business Insider's Henry Blodget may come to regret -- if he doesn't already -- using the phrase "dead in the water" to describe the performance of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as Blodget's headline put it, that "Android is destroying everyone."

The comScore survey to which Blodget was MORE

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Research In Motion announced a major update to its smartphone operating system, BlackBerry 7, and the first smartphone to come loaded with it, the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, due out some time this summer. The new device sports a 1.2 GHz processor, graphics processing unit (GPU), 768 MB RAM, 2.8-inch touschscreen, 5-megapixel camera MORE

Apple's mobile share grew 78%

Meanwhile, Nokia, Samsung and LG all lost market share, according to IDC

Apple's 5% slice of the mobile phone pie chart at right, drawn from IDC numbers released Friday, may not look like much, but consider this:

IDC is counting shipments all over the world, not just the U.S.
IDC is talking about all mobiles, from cheap feature phones to high-end smartphones.
Apple's (AAPL) share grew more than twice as fast as upstarts like MORE

Nielsen: Android gains, iPhone slips

In a new survey of prospective U.S. buyers, RIM and Microsoft drift, Nokia disappears

The launch of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone has not visibly slowed the triumphant march of Google's (GOOG) Android operating system through the mobile heartland of America, according to a Nielsen Wire report released Tuesday.

In monthly surveys conducted from January to March 2011 -- on either side of the Feb. 10 Verizon launch -- 31% of U.S. respondents MORE

iPad: Not just for Apple 'fanboys'

A comScore survey of iPad owners finds some surprises in their pockets

"Though it's frequently assumed that the Apple user base is composed of dedicated Apple 'fanboys'," writes comScore' Mark Donovan, using a term demeaning to Apple (AAPL) users of both sexes, "there's not a tremendous amount of overlapping mobile device access among these users."

That second part takes some unpacking, but its meaning is a little clearer in the spreadsheet at MORE

Why Apple investors shouldn't sweat Android

There's been a lot of noise recently about how Android is outselling the iPhone, but it's nothing more than a meaningless distraction from reality.

By Andy M. Zaky, contributor

FORTUNE -- It seems that almost every day I'm confronted with yet another insignificant article explaining how Google has surpassed Apple in "platform market share" and that, due to this cataclysmic state of affairs, investors should jump ship as this surely amounts to MORE

AT&T-Mobile: What the analysts say

The acquisition deal announced on Sunday unleashed a flood of analyst's notes

With the fate of so many players at stake -- not just AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telekom (DT), but also Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S), Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT) and the other makers of Google (GOOG) Android phones, not to mention all the companies that build cell towers -- everybody on MORE

Can Nokia and Microsoft win in the workplace?

The phonemaker and the software giant have struggled in smartphones. But together they just might crack the corporate market.

Nokia's recent decision to outfit its phones with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software should be a CIO's dream come true. Corporate tech chiefs love their vendors to compete, and the Nokia/Microsoft hookup would appear to offer companies a viable alternative to RIM, (RIMM) whose BlackBerry system rules with a 33% share of MORE

iPad 2 event: 9 things to watch for

The fun starts at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST). A guide to the proceedings.

[UPDATE: It's official. There will be no live webcast. My colleague Michael Copeland will be live blogging from inside the auditorium. I'll be following the action from Brooklyn here.]

Assuming Apple (AAPL) provides a live webcast of the event -- as it has for the last two -- here's what we'll be looking for:

Steve Jobs. A classic MORE

iPhone: 'The mother of all halos'

Apple execs talk about their plans to cash in on the popularity of the iPhone and iPad

In a note to clients issued Monday, Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi reports on a meeting with three top Apple (AAPL) executives: COO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Eddy Cue, vice president of Internet services.

Steve Jobs did not attend.

According to Erik Savitz, formerly of Barron's, now at Forbes.com, Sacconaghi reports that the execs are MORE