Gizmodo: piper jaffray

Remainders - Things We Didn't Post

Wilson Rothman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EDT

An Owl in a Box...Google Finally Solves PDF Searching...Lo and Behold: Teens Prefer the Apple...Rock Band Coming to iPhone?

We could try to justify this post in many ways, but it would be a stretch. We can't even call BS and claim it's Photoshop. The fact is, it's just an owl in a box. And I can't look away. [Reynen's Journal via Jalopnik, BoingBoing]

PDFs are the one major roadblock to a nice intense Google search—you see that little indicator and you have to either download, get the shitty HTML view, or just walk away. So Google is fixing it. Now, when you see the Quick View tag, you get a nicely formatted PDF. Go ahead, try it. You'll like it. [Technologizer]

Someone from the Department of No Shit (actually, it was Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, so pretty close) said that in a current study, most kids like the Apple products. It's really not surprising that most of the time, 100% of kids shopping for MP3 players want iPods, though in the fall, it seems to dip a tad, when Microsoft releases its latest Zune, and about 15% dare to be different. Also not surprising: Among the minority of kids who actually buy music, almost all of those dorks use iTunes. And to top it off, there's currently a spike in iPhone sales among teens, presumably boosted by the $99 3G option. In the next six months, nearly a quarter of teens claim they will buy an iPhone. This study is helpful for Apple bean counters, but it really says nothing at all about taste or judgment, if you think about it. [AllThingsD]

Speaking of those damn kids, they just can't get enough of this "Rock Band" either. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting it on their Apple products. Well, they just might get it, according to this shot from the otherwise mostly boring CTIA phone conference. And it just might have multiplayer mode with Bluetooth. Oh kids. I'll be in the bar. [MobileCrunch]

Munster Says 3 Percent of Teens Own iPhones, 9 Percent of Friends Totally Jealous

Wilson Rothman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:47:44 EDT

Phil Elmer-Dewitt, voice of the newly relocated Fortune Apple 2.0 blog, published Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster's latest report, a survey of 980 teens that reveals:
• 3% of students surveyed own iPhones
• An additional 9% expect to buy an iPhone in the next 6 months
• 4.2% of surveyed adults also had iPhones
• iPod market share is holding steady at 82%, with Sony and SanDisk tied for second place (4% each)
But PED thought Mr. Munster's numbers were a tad fishy, that rather than accurately reflecting the US, it was a snapshot of a tech-savvier subset.

There are roughly 28 million teenagers in the U.S., and it seems unlikely that they account for 840,000 of the 1.1 million iPhones sold so far.

And this doesn't even begin to factor in the 4.2% of adults Munster claims have the Jesus phone.

The other ambiguity is this 82% iPod market share. Does it include iPhones? Or can this mean that, in spite of brisk iPhone sales, iPod sales have remained consistent? Here's the chart—as you can see, the iPhone could be under iPod or Other:
[Apple 2.0]

iPhone Price Cut Has Driven 200-Percent Sales Hike

Wilson Rothman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:24:39 EDT

According to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, before Sept. 5, iPhone sales had leveled off at around 9,000 per day, mostly at $600 a pop. Now, following the iPhone price cut, Apple is moving 27,000 per day at $400 each. But is this growth sustainable? No. Munster says he thinks that after this initial 200% sales surge, the price-cut will yield a stable 50% sales increase. Apple has verified none of this. [Apple 2.0]

6th Generation of iPods for January 2008

kevinhall2 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:01 EDT

Analysts at Piper Jaffray peg Apple's next iPod announcement in January 2008, and they bet we'll see an iPod with an iPhonish touchscreen and running a version of OS X. What is it with these guys and obvious predictions?

I mean, January is Macworld. From the looks of it, the iPhone will continue to be Apple's mobile all-in-one handheld, while the iPod will move toward being a portable media powerhouse, with larger drive capacity, bigger and better screens, though lacking the iPhone's net capabilities. Again, obvious, but we only report because maybe they know some facts they can't share on record. But without specific details or quotes, what do we have here worth standing on? [Ars Technica]