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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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. More »
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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 »
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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. More »
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