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Samsung Galaxy S4 – Another Nail in iPhone’s Coffin

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Mar 142013
 
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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.

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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 area.

Like the Samsung Galaxy S III, the new S4 phones are also powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system.

Galaxy S4 – Rumored Specs

While Samsung has not disclosed specs of the new phone, media speculation has the S4 with a 5-inch screen and running Qualcomm’s quad-core processor for the U.S. models.

Galaxy S4 models for other markets will be powered by a more powerful eight-core processor.



The S4 phone should come with a 13-megapixel camera (the iPhone 5 only has a 8MP camera) and a better battery. Many iPhone 5 users have complained about the phone’s poor battery life.

Apple Worried

Apple is so concerned about the impact of the launch on its highly profitable iPhones that it ran to the Wall Street Journal to throw mud on the Galaxy S 4.

Apple’s Senior VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller told the WSJ that “Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn’t as good as an iPhone.”

Schiller claimed four times as many iPhone users switched from an Android phone than to an Android phone in the last quarter of 2012.

Android has already made significant headway in the smartphone market with a global marketshare of 66.4%% vis-a-vis 19.1% for iPhone.

Apple’s iPhone sales are starting to slow down and the company is boosting advertising.

SI

For several years now, SI has been in the iPhone camp.

Maybe, just maybe, I’ll take the Android plunge this time with the Samsung Galaxy S4.

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Total iPhone and iPad Sales: 2007-2013

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Feb 282013
 
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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 used to ward off dangers and to light a fire, never in human history has a consumer product been so successful in so short a time.

Apple has launched six generations of iPhones since 2007 – iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5.

iPhone Sales 2007-2013

iPad Tablet

Apple invented the tablet category.

Before the iPad debuts, tablet sales worldwide probably numbered in the hundreds or, at most, a few thousands. Whatever be the numbers in the pre-iPad era, tablets were used only for esoteric applications and not a consumer device.

Apple has put five versions of the iPad since the tablets came out in 2010 – iPad, iPad 2, iPad (3rd generation), iPad (4th generation) and the iPad Mini.

The 7.9-inch iPad Mini, Apple’s latest tablet model, debuted in November 2012.

Both the iPhone and iPad drive several billions of dollars in sales for Apple’s iTunes entertainment content store, App Store and the Mac App Store. We have not included those numbers here.

iPad Sales 2010-2013

Android & iOS Future

While Google’s Android platform is now making considerable headway against Apple’s iOS mobile platform powering the iPhones and iPads, it’s important to bear in mind that Android unit sales and net sales are spread across multiple vendors including Samsung, Google, Acer, Asus, Sony, Barnes & Noble, Lenovo etc.

It’s hard to say if Apple can drive the same momentum for the iPhone and the iPad in the years ahead but history will record the extraordinary success of the iPhone and iPad from 2007-2013 as a milestone in human accomplishment.

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iPhone 5 Sales – $3.75b in 3 Days

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Sep 242012
 
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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.

Apple Sells 5m iPhone 5 in 3 Days

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 the iPhone 5 between launch day September 21 through September 23.

Second, I looked at the prices of the iPhone 5.

Apple sells three models of the iPhone 5 with different storage capacities – $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB) and $849 (64GB). (In the U.S., carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless sell the iPhone 5 for $199-$399 to consumers in exchange for pricey two-year contracts.)

In my opinion, the majority of consumers will be buying the 32GB or 64GB versions of the iPhone 5 given all that junk (music, videos, pictures, books etc) they store on their devices.

Since Apple must have also sold some units of the lower-priced 16GB model and to also account for slightly lower priced sales through partner sites like Best Buy, Target etc, I have taken $749 as the average selling price.

Voila, $3.75 billion in the first three days.

But not all iPhone 5 units have been shipped to customers.

Apple claims that while the majority of pre-orders have been shipped to customers, many are scheduled to be shipped in October.

iPhone 5 Complaints

By the way, several iPhone 5 customers are complaining about receiving scratched/damaged units. Continue reading »

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Heaven Comes to Earth – iPhone 5 Lands

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Sep 122012
 
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Nirvana’s here.

I mean, the iPhone 5.
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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 faster connectivity
* New A6 Processor, 2X faster than the A5 chip; 2X faster graphics
* Battery offers 8 hours of 3G talk time/browsing and LTE browsing; 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music, 225 hours of standby
* 8-megapixel camera, 3264×2448, backside illuminated, hybrid IR filter, five-element lens, fast f/2.4 aperture, Panorama feature
* 720p front camera
* 1080p HD video, improved video stabilization, take photos while recording
* Updated audio, 3 microphones
* Improved speakers, noise-canceling earpiece
* New all-digital, ‘Lightning’ connector
* 802.11 a/b/g/n, 802.11n (2.4GHz and dual channel 5GHz up to 150 Mbps WiFi
* Free Turn-by-turn directions (GPS)
* iOS 6 software
* Safari full screen mode
* VIP mail feature for important mail
* Passbook to store tickets, airline boarding pass, coupons etc in one place
* Improved Siri with movie recommendations and sports scores

iPhone 5 in Landscape Mode

Pricing remains unchanged from the 4S.

It’s $199 for the 16GB model, $299 (32GB) and $399 (64GB), all with a 2-year contract.

Pre-orders start Sep.14 in US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Shipping starts September 21.

Who’s going to buy the iPhone 5 first?

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Apple Sells 35m iPhones in Q2; Cumulative iPhone Sales Reach 218.24m Units

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Apr 242012
 
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Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones in its fiscal second quarter ended March 31, 2012 taking cumulative sales of the popular mobile phone since its launch in June 2007 to 218.24 million units.

The history of the technology industry has few parallels to the phenomenal success of the iPhone, which is a combination of a cell phone, music/video player and miniature computer with Internet capabilities.

In popular parlance, a device like the iPhone is known as a smartphone.

iPhone Sales – 200 Million Milestone

In less than five years of launch, the iPhone has not only sold over 218 million units but has also become the benchmark by which all other smartphones in the world are judged.

From basic features in the original iPhone to voice recognition capabilities in the latest model (iPhone 4S), Apple’s wildly popular mobile phone has come a long way.

iphone sales

Designed in California and manufactured in China, the newest model, iPhone 4S, is today available in over 100 countries with 230 carriers.

iPhone and related products brought in $22.69 billion in Apple’s fiscal second quarter, accounting for 58% of Apple’s total sales of $39.186 billion in the quarter.

Apple said iPhone sales in greater China were five times the level in the same quarter a year ago.

With Apple lately aggressively pushing sales of the iPhone in low-end stores like Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, there’s still lot of momentum for the device. Previously, Apple sold the phones directly, via carriers like AT&T and Verizon or at electronics retail chains like Best Buy.

Good iPad Sales

Apple also reported robust sales of its iPad tablets in the quarter.

iPad sales rose 151% year-over-year to 11.8 million units in the second quarter.

Apple reported a profit of $11.622 billion in the second quarter taking its cash hoard to $110.2 billion, much of it stashed away in overseas subsidiaries to avoid paying a tax if it’s repatriated to the U.S.

Overseas sales accounted for 64% of Apple’s revenue in the the quarter.

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If You Can’t Afford an iPhone iPhone, You Can Always Get an iPhone Gas Stove

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Feb 242012
 
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What do you do when you can’t afford an iPhone?

Not iPorn, silly. ;)

We meant iPhone.

Yes, that thing that lets you swipe your fingers and make the screen go this side and that or do that pinchy-squeezy thing to make Kate Upton’s tatas grow bigger right before your ogling eyes.

Oh yes, the iPhone also lets you make calls as in Hello Slut, You Wearing Anything Down There?

But what if you’re one of those beggars?

Like these two NYC teenagers, you can snatch an iPhone from a 81-year-old man, push him on the subway tracks and screw up your life forever.

Or you can do what the Chinese do.

Well, so what do the Chinese do with their iPhones?

They cook Chowmein, Chop-Suey and Gen Tsao’s Chicken on their green iPhones.

Not those drab Black or White iPhones for the Chinese, they need a green one to make their neighbors go green with envy.

Think we’re kidding?

Here see these iPhone gas stove pictures from China:

iphone gas stove

iphone gas stove

iphone gas stove(Images courtesy: NetEase via micgadget)

Now if only Steve Jobs were alive he’d have had an apoplectic fit to see his beloved gadget being used to cook Chowmein and Pork Fried Rice!

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