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Horace Dediu, former Nokia employee turned Apple analyst, was one of the first people we can remember who suggested that the invention of unique and different input methods are directly responsible for the user interface revolutions that we’ve experienced over the past few decades. Apple changed things with the mouse, then with the mulitouch screen,…
According to Juniper Research’s latest report, the continued growth of dedicated ebook readers and tablets will push annual revenues from eBooks delivered to portable devices to $9.7 billion by 2016, up from $3.2 billion this year. The research company has found that the increasing demand for tablets means that these devices will account for nearly…
Although video calling has become fairly common in the PC market, it has just recently started becoming mainstream on mobile devices and TVs. While many of the players cross over between screen-types, the dynamics in each market are quite unique. New NPD In-Stat research forecasts the total number of active video calling users will surpass…
I believe the iPhone 4S is a very nice device, but is it worth breaking your existing contract and paying fees to get? Well, data from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners suggest that up to 45 percent of broke their contract to get the latest Apple smartphone. The report found that more than half (52…
According to the latest report by Juniper Research, the combination of the smartphone and the app stores has created a vibrant market for mHealth apps which are forecast to reach 142 million downloads globally by 2016. Mobile apps already cover a wide range of mHealth use cases, from medical calculators to monitoring software. However, it’s…
At this point, there no arguing about the dominance that is Android. Not too long ago, we wrote about ComScore’s survey, which showed 45 percent of all smartphones nationwide were Android operated. Well, the folks over at Nielsen have another study that shows the growth of both Google and Apple’s software ecosystem, particularly in the app downloads…
A new report from Berg Insight predicts that mobile location-based service (LBS) revenues in Europe will grow from 205 million EUR in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4% to reach 435 million EUR in 2016. The research company estimates that 20% of all mobile subscribers on the Old Continent already use…
Analyst Chris Whitmore and his team at Deutsche Bank did some research regarding Apple’s Black Friday sales this year. They assessed over 100 Apple retail stores and over 100 authorized Apple resellers, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. Whitmore declared that about 75 percent completely sold out of iPhone 4S stock…
Internet security service provider, Zscaler, recently published some interesting usage data for the last quarter, including some insight into mobile browser usage. Although iOS may be winning device adoption over BlackBerry in businesses, it looks like the majority of Zscaler’s enterprise subscribers that browse the web on smartphones (40.3%) are doing so through an Android…
It took a few years, but it’s finally happened. More smartphones were sold in China during Q3 2011 than in the United States. The exact number? 23.9 million versus 23.3 million. Not a whole lot, but consider this: the population of the United States is 307 million, meanwhile there are 1.3 billion people in China.…