How Many Tablets Are In The USA? And Does It Matter?
Another day, another number for tablet market share. Pew has released its latest survey for the US market, suggesting (amongst many other things) that Apple now has 'just' 52% share of the US tablet...
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WhatsApp is a cross-platform smartphone app that lets you send text and picture messages for free, using your data allowance. There are dozens of these services, referred to by telcos as 'OTT' (Over...
View Article2.5bn Mobile Social Network accounts
There's nothing terribly new about trying to make 'over-the-top' (OTT) voice and messaging services for mobile phones. There was a major flowering of voice-OTT services (mainly based on call-back)...
View ArticleUS Q3 handset market: 80% smart and Apple has over half
With T-Mobile USA reporting Q3 results yesterday, the last of the 'big 4' US operators, which have around 90% of the market, have now given us a pretty complete picture of the US handset market. The...
View ArticleAndroid, China and Addressable Markets
The smartphone market in China is exploding. Depending on who you talk to, there were anything from 40-50m smartphones sold in the last quarter, compared to around 19m in the USA. Combining Baidu and...
View ArticleThe end of the beginning. Mobile blows past PCs: so what?
The mobile revolution (or whatever you want to call it) is well underway. Smartphones and tablets running iOS and Android will outsell PCs by more than 2:1 in 2012, and there will be 1bn of these...
View Article20 Questions For The Mobile Industry In 2013
Smartphones now outsell PCs by more than 2 to 1, and it looks like the 'Platform Wars' may be almost over, with iOS and Android between them having around 90% market share. Yet one of the fascinating...
View ArticleFacebook's 470m mobile app users
Until late last year, Facebook disclosed monthly active users (MAUs, hereafter 'users' for simplicity) for its smartphone apps, on a rolling daily basis. I was always slightly nervous of publishing it,...
View ArticleApple's market share might be too high, not too low
For most of the last few years, the discussion of the 'smartphone wars' has been couched in terms of market share of smartphones. Yet arguably, this isn't really the most relevant metric any more. In...
View ArticleApple At A Tipping Point -- Up Or Down?
In the last quarter of 2012, half of all phones sold on earth were smartphones. Of the rest, a quarter were sold to people with very low incomes, who can only afford $10-$20 for a phone, and the other...
View ArticleHow Many Tablets Are In The USA? And Does It Matter?
Another day, another number for tablet market share. Pew has released its latest survey for the US market, suggesting (amongst many other things) that Apple now has 'just' 52% share of the US tablet...
View ArticleWhatsApp - The Biggest Social Network You've Never Heard Of
WhatsApp is a cross-platform smartphone app that lets you send text and picture messages for free, using your data allowance. There are dozens of these services, referred to by telcos as 'OTT' (Over...
View Article2.5bn Mobile Social Network accounts
There's nothing terribly new about trying to make 'over-the-top' (OTT) voice and messaging services for mobile phones. There was a major flowering of voice-OTT services (mainly based on call-back)...
View ArticleUS Q3 handset market: 80% smart and Apple has over half
With T-Mobile USA reporting Q3 results yesterday, the last of the 'big 4' US operators, which have around 90% of the market, have now given us a pretty complete picture of the US handset market. The...
View ArticleAndroid, China and Addressable Markets
The smartphone market in China is exploding. Depending on who you talk to, there were anything from 40-50m smartphones sold in the last quarter, compared to around 19m in the USA. Combining Baidu and...
View ArticleThe end of the beginning. Mobile blows past PCs: so what?
The mobile revolution (or whatever you want to call it) is well underway. Smartphones and tablets running iOS and Android will outsell PCs by more than 2:1 in 2012, and there will be 1bn of these...
View Article20 Questions For The Mobile Industry In 2013
Smartphones now outsell PCs by more than 2 to 1, and it looks like the 'Platform Wars' may be almost over, with iOS and Android between them having around 90% market share. Yet one of the fascinating...
View ArticleFacebook's 470m mobile app users
Until late last year, Facebook disclosed monthly active users (MAUs, hereafter 'users' for simplicity) for its smartphone apps, on a rolling daily basis. I was always slightly nervous of publishing it,...
View ArticleApple's market share might be too high, not too low
For most of the last few years, the discussion of the 'smartphone wars' has been couched in terms of market share of smartphones. Yet arguably, this isn't really the most relevant metric any more. In...
View ArticleApple At A Tipping Point -- Up Or Down?
In the last quarter of 2012, half of all phones sold on earth were smartphones. Of the rest, a quarter were sold to people with very low incomes, who can only afford $10-$20 for a phone, and the other...
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