iPhone is still on a roll. Apple said today it’d sold 13.7 million iPhone units in 2008 (including 4.36 million in Q4 alone), well ahead of its target of 10 million for the year. Apple customers are also downloading applications in a big, big way. Over half-a-billion apps (that is 500-million for the mathematically disadvantaged) […]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent out an e-mail to all Apple employees acknowledging that his health issues are more complex than he’d thought earlier. Jobs is now taking medical leave of absence from Apple for five months, i.e. until the end of June. No details were provided on the nature of Jobs’ health problems. […]
Come April, Apple will jack up prices of some singles in its iTunes digital media store (largest online store for Indian songs??) to $1.29. Currently, single tracks are 99 cents with most albums at $9.99. At Macworld,  Apple today announced a new three-tier pricing structure – the songs will be available at one of three price […]
The Apple App Store juggernaut continues. Today, Apple took out a full page ad in the print edition of Wall Street Journal to blow its horn that its App Store now has 10,000 applications and that iPhone users have so far downloaded 300 million applications from the store. That’s an amazing record considering that the App […]
Apple’s hot iPhone 3G is now the most popular mobile phone in the U.S., according to market researcher NPD. iPhone 3G pipped Motorola’s RAZR (the top-seller for the past 12 quarters) to take the No-1 spot in the third quarter. Since the iPhone debuted about 17 months ago, sales of the smartphone have been on […]
Forget Google’s G1. The hot new smartphone to watch out for – and one that could threaten iPhone’s glorious run – is the soon-to-be-launched Blackberry Storm. Although much ink and web space has been devoted to Google’s Android operating system based cell phones like the G1 from T-Mobile, the more likely challenge to the iPhone […]