When iTunes Music went DRM-free and “hits” jumped from $0.99 to $1.29 stories soon followed that the higher price point was leading to slower sales… and now that iBooks and publishers aim to increase eBook sales from $9.99 to up to $14.99, MediaMemo is telling them to “beware!”:
Warner Music Group (WMG) said this [...]
If the internets are to be believed, Google is setting pricing on their HTC built new Nexus One Android flagship smartphone at $529.99 unlocked, or $179.99 if you take it alongside a 2-year, $80 a month T-Mobile contract. Here are the deets:
Existing T-Mo customers can’t keep their current plan if they want a subsidized phone. The [...]
How important is the iPhone to Apple’s business going forward? See the chart above, prepared by Fortune. Up from 5.7% in 2008 to 18.5% in 2009.
We’re going to say “very” and “increasingly”. Daring Fireball highlights how Apple goes about ensuring that “increasingly” part, riffing off The Loop’s reminder of when Apple killed the iPod mini [...]
Could Apple’s iPhone be destined for 3rd place in smartphone marketshare by 2012, trailing Nokia/Symbian’s 39% and Google Android’s 14.5% with a paltry 13.7%? That’s what some analysts at Gartner are telling ComputerWorld, with Nokia already in the global lead, and Google’s wallet, cloud-services, rapid iteration of the OS, and variety of form-factors and UIs [...]
In light of today’s response by Apple to the FCC about the Google Voice rejection, and anticipating the likely, negative reaction it will engender, I’m again left thinking that Apple and their iPhone are closer akin to a restaurant, not a super market.
Steve Jobs is like one of those screaming, perfectionistic executive chefs concerned more [...]
More a cameo than a starring role, never the less the iPhone and MobileMe feature in Apple’s latest marketing campaign “Get the most from your Mac: Our picks for getting your best pics”:
Let friends download full-resolution images. Enjoy your own online gallery where you can share photos and videos. Let friends download your [...]
Venture Partners guestimated, based on a survey from O’Reilly, that Apple has made “only” $20-$45 million from their 30% cut of App Store revenue since the service launched in July 2008.
To quickly recap, App Store developers can charge whatever they’d like for apps — including free as in $0 — and Apple will take 30% [...]
As many of us eagerly wait for Twitterrific 2.0 to hit the iTunes App Store, developer Craig Hockenberry has provided an interesting insight into the mind — and strategy — behind one of the most high-profile development houses in Apple-dom. Says Hockenberry on being Trendy:
As software developers we often fall into the “just [...]
Take your $5+ apps and put them on sale for $0.99 for a week, and see if cheap really does make it up on volume, and what do you get? Aside from a lot of iPhone media attention, pretty much a wash according the AppCubby:
People seem to think that there is unlimited demand [...]
Digital Daily brings BOOM!ing word that Apple’s market cap has just exceeded Google’s, at $159.37 vs. $157.56.
Good on Steve Jobs and Apple. And kudos to Valleywag for saying, way back in 2007 that this would happen because “Apple knows how to design not just gadgets, but the businesses that go around them.”
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