by Van Baker | April 24, 2009 | Comments Off
The App store just hit 1 billion downloads and with a billion downloads there has to be some money involved. Right? Well let’s do some math. There are 1 billion downloads but it is likely that a minority of these are applications that consumers paid for. I will err on the conservative side and guess [...]
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by Van Baker | April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Apple posted very strong results for its second fiscal quarter reporting net income of 1.21 Billion or $1.33 per share on revenues of $8.16 billion. Sales fo the iPhone were up a spectacular 123% over the year ago quarter wnd sales of the iPod were up 3% over the year ago quarter. There was some [...]
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by Van Baker | April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
The amount of hype around the upcoming Palm Pre is impressive and has almost achieved Apple level buzz. The phone has been widely shown at CES, Mobile World Congress and CTIA and it is a very impressive device. The user interface is very impressive and the functionality that the device brings to the market is [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: iPhone, Palm, Pre, smartphone, Sprint
