Yes, tablets and traditional PCs can coexist in the market place You may find yourself wanting to gouge your eyeballs out with a used grapefruit spoon every time you see a headline declaring the end the end of the PC era. We're willing to concede that tablets and even smartphones have cut into traditional PC sales the last several quarters, and we haven't been shy about covering the...
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 operating system will launch in January and the company’s first handsets powered by the new OS will follow shortly after. RIM needs those smartphones to be a success, otherwise it faces almost certain doom. Wall Street is already skeptical about RIM’s ability to deliver on its promises, and a new report from Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum suggests BB10 could...
The iPad mini is certainly a hot product right now, but is it cannibalizing sales of Apple’s other products? A bit, but it’s also creating more demand for Apple products. A recent survey of 1,225 U.S. adults conducted by Cowen and Co. found that 83.4 percent of iPad mini buyers said it wouldn’t replace another device, such as the original iPad. 16.6% of those surveyed said the iPad mini...
You can never be sure about how a product will perform on the market, particularly one that hasn't even been announced. But one analyst is confident that Apple's iPad mini, which is set to be unveiled in less than an hour, will dominate the market the same way its bigger brother has for the past three years. "Just as Apple has dominated the market for 9.7-inch tablets with its iPad,...
We’re expecting Apple to announce the iPad mini on Oct. 17 and, while the device will hopefully be cheaper than the larger new iPad and iPad 2, Apple apparently hasn’t scaled back on the materials used to create the device. In other words, we can expect it to be as first-class as all of Apple’s products. Brian White, an analyst with Topeka, recently published a research note after...
After using my iPhone 5 for several days, I picked up my iPad and pondered whether that might go widescreen in the future. I quickly dismissed the idea as silly and thought nothing else of it, but according to on industry analyst, it could actually happen. Apple is said to be testing a widescreen iPad prototype with the same 16:9 aspect ratio that features on the new iPhone 5's 4-inch...
Apple’s share price has been steadily rising for weeks in anticipation of the iPhone 5, and some analysts were confident it would hit $700 per share before October. It did that in after-hours trading on Monday, breaking yet another record for the Cupertino company, and sending its market cap above $650 billion. Apple became the world’s most valuable public company back in August,...
We've already heard a few analysts sound off on impressive sales predictions for the iPhone 5 when it makes its rumored debut next month, but FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger is predicting insane success for the next iPhone. In fact, Berger believes Apple will generate $144 billion in revenue from the phone over the lifetime of the device, representing 250 million units sold....
An analyst firm Jefferies upped his Apple share price target from $800 to $900 on Friday as a result of high expectations for Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 launch. Apple's stock was already trading at a new high at $644.13 earlier this morning, just $0.16 above its earlier 52-week high. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said he expects the iPhone 5 to blow every other smartphone launch out of...
Apple may be looking to get into the mobile payment game on its own with a new solution that one analyst has dubbed "iPay." The payment platform could compete directly with other services such as ISIS – a partnership between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless – and Google Wallet, which is currently used by Sprint and supported by T-Mobile. Mark Moskowitz, an analyst with J.P....