Samsung is launching Galaxy S4, the newest model of its smartphones at Radio City Music Hall in New York City this evening. Coincidentally, SI happens to be in NYC today. As I wander around Times Square and Radio City in Midtown Manhattan on a cloudy winter day, I see prominent Samsung Galaxy billboards in the […]
In the spirit of noblesse oblige, SI is providing two informative tables providing total unit sales and their dollar value for the iPhone and the iPad from their launch dates. The data has been collected off Apple’s quarterly and annual filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. iPhone Success Except the stones the caveman […]
Premature obituaries on Apple have been written so many times, both on the company itself and and its dazzling offerings like the iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac and iTunes, that it’s now bordering on the tiresome to even scroll through them. Time and again, the naysayers have been caught on the wrong foot and left with […]
Just yesterday, we read an article in an Indian newspaper that 25% of Indians go to bed hungry every night. And a few minutes back, we stumbled upon a Nielsen survey showing India with a low rate of smartphone penetration compared to the other BRIC countries. (Nielsen map of India is erroneous as it chops […]
Apple’s revenues from the iPhone 5 has amounted to roughly $3.75 billion in the first three days after the device hit the market on Friday, September 21. This is how I arrived at the above sales figure of $3.75 billion. First, I took into consideration Apple’s announcement today that it sold five million units of […]
Nirvana’s here. I mean, the iPhone 5. Apple has just launched the iPhone 5 in San Francisco. IPhone 5 Specs: * 4-inch screen (previous iPhones had 3.5″ screen) * Retina display of 326ppi, 1136×640 resolution * 7.6mm thin (18% thinner than iPhone 4S) * Weighs 112 grams (20% lighter than 4S) * LTE capable for […]