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Analysts Talk Apple Tablet, Make Ever More Predictions...Mad Catz Brings Cheaper Xbox 360 Wi-Fi Adapter, Still About $50 Too Expensive...Sony Reader Firmware Upgrade Is Surprisingly Difficult...B&N Giftcards Will Work for Nook Ebook Purchases, Soon... More »

Analysts Say Nokia Really Is Doomed by 2013, Apple to Pass It in 2011

We're not the only ones who think Nokia is doomed if they keep turning out smartphones like the N97. Generator Research says that Nokia's smartphone marketshare will plummet from over 40 percent today to only 20 percent by 2013. More »

Pre Hits 300,000 Sales In June, Dwarfs Palm's Previous Totals

We'll see plenty of "Pre sells X units in Y amount of time; not as many as iPhone" stories in the next year—in fact, we already have. That may be the wrong way to look at it. More »

Great Moments in Apple Analysis

Benjamin Reitzes of Barclays Capital drops this insightful load in a NYT piece on Apple strategy: More »

WTF: Bad Economy Actually Slowing HDTV Price Drops

One would think that a shitty economy = more cheap stuff for us consumers, right? You know, the whole "go out and shop!" brand of problem-solving we've become accustomed to? Not this time. More »

Analyst: Apple Getting Crazy With Huge Deals This Black Friday?

Apple generally tends to merely dip its Designed in California toe into the Black Friday blackwaters, usually offering a one-day $100-off promotion on a single product family via online and in-store purchases. But analysts at Barclay Capital and the folks at Apple Insider are projecting bigger things this year, which could include more aggressive one-time prices slashes across multiple families (iPhone potentially included). More »

Analysts Predict Apple 2013: That's One Wonky Crystal Ball

Foretelling Apple's next grooves is the national pastime for (some) geeks and an occupational obssession for analysts, who trip over themselves with crazy predictions in "notes" and reports to people with lots of money who want to make more. Forrester just released its big report on what Apple will be like in 2013, and it's a doozy—their crystal ball must be a Chinese knockoff, because it completely ignores the actual direction of not just Apple's wares, but gadgets and media as a whole. An Apple clock radio? Really? More »

Apple's Stock Drops 5.15%, Low Boom Count to Blame?

Wall Street can be such a fickle beast sometimes. Today, Apple revealed what could only be referred to as a monstrous unveiling of iPod-related material, and how do the investors repay them? With a 5.15% drop in the stock price. (Although we've done a few of our own calculations and have come to a striking realization.) More »

iPhone Software Update 'Arriving Shortly', Says VP of iPod Product Marketing

Greg Joswiak, Apple's VP of iPod Product Marketing, tells a bunch of analysts that the first iPhone software update will be coming soon. Analysts then went on to speculate that the update could bring: More »

Rumor: Apple Bombarding Market With 3 Million iPhones At Launch, Plus More Ridiculous Numbers

Businessweek claims two sources told them Apple will have 3 million iPhones ready for the launch on June 29. This is an absurdly high number. For comparison, Nintendo's Wii had 1 Million units. The PS3? 400,000. Xbox 360? Around 300,000. So Apple's going to have about twice as much as all of them put together? Amazing. And probably unlikely. More »

Analyst: The iPhone Really Is the Jesusphone

Tomi T Ahonen, self-proclaimed "world's leading 3G strategy consultant," unabashedly declares:

Much like the Western calendar marks time from before and after Jesus Christ, and how the computer world changed totally by the Macintosh—remembering that Windows is Microsoft's copy of the Mac operating system—I am certain that the mobile telecoms world will count its time in two Eras. The Era BI: time Before the iPhone, and the ERA AI: time After the iPhone.

Hit the jump for more of his predictions. More »

Forbes Analyst: 10 Million iPhones? Good Luck

Taesik Yoon, an analyst over at Forbes, rolls off why investors shouldn't gleefully pump money into Apple stock betting on the iPhone to return their investment in gold bullion. A lot of it's familiar—high price point, ill fit with the smart phone market despite its potential growth—but some of it's a bit newish. More »

Cell Phones Grimier Than Public Toilets

All you mysophobes out there may wanna listen to this. A new study reveals that your cell phone carries more muck on it than the bottom of your shoe. Researchers at Dial-a-Phone collected swabs from everyday objects like keyboards, shoes, and even toilet seats and in each case, the swab that was exposed to the surface of a cell phone was the dirtiest of the bunch. Apparently phones are perfect bacteria carriers since we tend to keep them warm and toasty inside our pockets. Their advice: "wipe!" Couldn't have said it better myself, though this makes me hesitate about lending out my cell and using other people's mobiles when my battery goes dead. – Louis Ramirez More »

Egg-Headed Analysts: Sony PS3 to Win Console War

Navel-gazing think tankers at Research and Markets say even though the Sony PS3 has lost the opening battle, it will still win the console war, predicting an installed base of 75 million PS3s around the world by 2010. Researchers at the Yankee Group echo that, predicting the PS 3 up top by 2011 with a 44% market share, Xbox 360 in second at 40% and the Nintendo Wii trailing with 16%. More »

Mac Users Are a Bunch of Geezers

I've never been a fan of "analyst studies." They're usually so out of touch with reality that there's no point to them. Take this one for instance. Market research firm MetaFacts did some investigative reporting and found out that almost half (46%) of Mac users are 55 or older, whereas only 25% of the Wintel crowd hits that age bracket. Who has the 18-24 demographic? Gateway. I can see the Gateway part having some credibility (I got my first Gateway Pentium II when I was that age), but the Mac part? C'mon. – Louis Ramirez More »

Zune's Brown Color Sucks, Analyst Says

Microsoft marketing geniuses figured out that brown is the new black (or white), painting up the Zune in a color that a lot of people associate with a brick of shit. Now here come the second-guessing analysts, and one named Rob Enderle from the Enderle Group says that Microsoft stands alone in its edgy choice of brown as a hot new color. Is brown cool? "No other hardware company has come to that conclusion," he said, blaming the color for the player's somewhat slow intro. More »