iPhone 5 and record numbers of presales
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
iPhone 5: what it means for Apple and for the market
Beneath the surface, this iPhone was profoundly renewed. The technical specifications can be found all here, more detailed and less tedious than it might tell you about myself. Addition to the iPhone also came the new iPod . Carini. Especially the iPod Nano. But to let you know how much their weight are marginal for Apple, just look at the percentage breakdown of total revenues in the second quarter of 2012. With the iPod cuba only 3% of the pie. Digital music 5%. Desktops 4%. Laptops 5%. To squirt up to 17% of the iPad. And then get to the very heart of Apple's revenues. The iPhone: 60%.
Why bet now is all there. Into that of a few centimeters since 2007 has become the undisputed icon of Apple and the entire smartphone market. That led Cupertino to look elsewhere. With sales of desktop sitemi less stable and those of Mac laptops that recorded a slight decrease negative compared to last year. The gold mine is located elsewhere. In that increase of 120% in sales and 80% of iPad sales of the iPhone that are ferrying Apple, and reflection throughout the entire global market sector, in the era "post-PC". The dynamic always the same. With Cupertino trolling and all the others who are scrambling to keep up.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Not only iPhone 5: Apple renews iMac, iPod, iPad and prepares to launch iPad Mini
The rumor circulating for weeks. Now we gave it all for sure. At least we hoped. Tim Cook, bright smile on his face, that the stage of the Moscone Center presents the new iPhone 5 from Apple. Maybe even the much-talked-about iPad Mini whose existence has yet to be demonstrated. We all know Apple is a kind of religion. You have to have faith and believe. The start date for the successor of the glorious iPhone 4S was said to be September 12. Postponed then, for obscure reasons that only the creators of rumors about Apple know, a week later. Last known date, September 21.
A close examination, by browsing the list of the events of September Moscone, where they appear companies like Intel and Oracle, there is no trace of Apple. But you know, Cupertino does things at the last minute. And then, after all, the location is not said is that where they usually take place for several years now, the most important events of Apple.
However, is the fact that the iPhone 5 will be presented by the end of the month. A hint would be negligible at the base of this speculation is also given by the busy schedule of events that companies like Samsung, Motorala and Nokia have concentrated in the first half of the month to present their flagship smartphone next generation. A significant challenge due to the large attests to the fifth generation of the iPhone.
In all this, Apple could surprise positively not only with the iPhone 5. On the horizon there is a complete renovation of several product lines, dall'iMac iPod. According to analysts of the financial group KGI Taiwan, in fact, the timeline of the launch of new Apple products scheduled between September and October, provide for:
Mid September: MacBook Pro 13 "with Retina Display, iMac 21.5".
End of September: iPhone 5, iPod Touch.
Mid October: an unspecified New iPad "modified", iPod nano.
End of October: iPad Mini, iMac 27 ".
Realistically, a concentration of so many products of concerted relief in a period of time so narrow, seems a stretch excessive. The risk that sales of one could negatively affect sales of the whole is a possibility to calculate. But the most obvious market rules often do not apply to Apple. How the iPad that would cannibalized sales of the iPhone. Elite of economists and analysts as a possibility sbandierarla anything but remote. We have seen how things have gone instead.
Speculation about the dates remain the rumors to be verified. And the network has proven time and again, not always guesses. It remains only to wait. At most a couple of months. But just as the iPhone 5 to obscure the success of all the rest.
Ref : http://woorkup.com/2012/09/03/non-solo-iphone-5-apple-rinnova-imac-ipod-ipad-e-si-prepara-al-lancio-dellipad-mini/
Not too cold war between Apple and Samsung
Whether in the quarter between January and March 2012 Samsung had sold 44.5 million smartphone, an indisputable fact. Approximately 21,000 units per hour. 30.6% of the global market. At the same time Apple sold "just" 35 million iPhones, reaching 24% market share. Not a few, you say. But still 9 million less than its fiercest competitor. A difference not just negligible.
And now comes the Galaxy S III. Less cool iPhone but able to attract the same attention and curiosity of the more "sophisticated" - in terms of style - gadget from Cupertino. Even from the audience of "applecentrici."
Nine million pre-orders in record time. Sales expect sensational. At the headquarters of Samsung is all a party. The iPhone teasing abound.
At the other end of the world Tim Cook not talks. I imagine him sitting in a chair, with a grin frozen on his face while toying with the prototype of the new iPhone. And he thinks.
"Wait October. Then we'll see who's laughing. "
Apple iTV to $ 1,499 dollars: word BestBuy (or maybe not)
Imagine iOS-style icons that appear on the screen when the power is on, the ability to update - by Siri - Facebook, Twitter, surf the Internet, use your favorite applications and play the most popular games of all time directly on your new iTV.
Science fiction? No, actually, yes. At least for the moment.
As reported by TheVerge , it seems that these days Best Buy is sending its customers a survey with feedback on potential new products and services coming and their eventual acceptance by users. In the first position the figure just the elusive iTV Apple, imaginatively called "Apple HDTV."
The authors of the survey imagine the Apple HDTV with the following characteristics:
- 42-inch 1080p LED high-definition;
- native iOS operating system and can be downloaded directly from the App Store all apps already available for the iPhone and iPad;
- iCloud support for saving remote film, TV series and the various media, with the same procedures used for saving photos and music in the cloud service from Apple;
- iSight camera and microphone for video calls using FaceTime, Skype or any similar app;
- support for iTunes, Netflix, YouTube and Flickr.
- voice control via Siri or the Remote app on the iPhone, iPod and iPad.
All the figure, quite affordable, with $ 1,499 dollars - without the usual change one by one - in euro is estimated at around € 1,500.
At least for the American market, the characteristic part of the big chains of retailers to send to customers this kind of survey regarding the level of satisfaction of possible new products is quite common, and usually with a certain probability and approximation on the characteristics, anticipate what will end up on the shelves in a few months.
To this add in even the New York Times that quoted a source inside Apple that confirm the existence of a prototype of iTV at an advanced stage in the study of Cupertino Jonathan Ive (currently Senior Vice President of Industrial Design) .
Do the math it is likely that the rumors about the Apple TV is more than just rumors and look a bit 'expectations and the denials of a few years ago when the then rumored iTablet, then presented with the name iPad.
If March is the month of the launch of the new iPad 3 is possible that the new wonder Apple does not arrive before the summer even though I fear that, before the next year, we will not see anything new.