Needham: Android's market share peaked in March
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It's the law of large numbers, where do you go from a 50% share.... I give Google credit for brining the smartphone to the masses, the strength of their offering will determine how many of those new users they keep over time. With RIM waining it will be interesting to see if there is a market for a Windows / Nokia phone at the end of the year...
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Too funny....iPhone begins to be sold at americas largest carrier, where all the pre sale hype was about iPhone gonna wipe out Android on Verizon and all they can muster is a 3% drop for Android lol yep it was a rousing success
Android should just pack up shop now, the race is over!! lmao
next quarter results are due very soon. we will see how americas love-in with Apple and Verizon are doing then lol
wasn't it about a year ago Apple was 50% and Android was about 15%? lol too funny
Android should just pack up shop now, the race is over!! lmao
next quarter results are due very soon. we will see how americas love-in with Apple and Verizon are doing then lol
wasn't it about a year ago Apple was 50% and Android was about 15%? lol too funny
WOW!!! poor bottie and fanboi buddies
Will have their hands full obfuscating around that one!....:eyebrows:
Will have their hands full obfuscating around that one!....:eyebrows:
a little more perspective....
OMG since Oct. 2010 Apple have LOST 3% how can this be?????
and that comes just 3 months AFTER the release of the amazing, magical, mythical "jesus phone" iPhone 4
and lowly Android has only GAINED 27% damn you Apple for slowing Android growth LMAO
OMG since Oct. 2010 Apple have LOST 3% how can this be?????
and that comes just 3 months AFTER the release of the amazing, magical, mythical "jesus phone" iPhone 4
and lowly Android has only GAINED 27% damn you Apple for slowing Android growth LMAO
I like this chart too...
the next desired OS as of Oct 2010
30% desire iOS as there next phone compared to 28% for Android
WTF!! what happened?
the next desired OS as of Oct 2010
30% desire iOS as there next phone compared to 28% for Android
WTF!! what happened?
Hmmmm....
Verizon iPhone sales dash hopes; shares fall
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/verizon-idUSN1E76L07I20110722
NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications (VZ.N) may have the iPhone, but the blockbuster smartphone has yet to pay off in its battle against AT&T Inc (T.N).
In the second quarter, Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, signed up 1.3 million fewer iPhone customers than AT&T, dashing high hopes of investors who sent its shares down almost 3 percent.
On top of this, Verizon Wireless customers spent less per month than expected as the company changed its data service price plans, further disappointing Wall Street on Friday.
While Verizon Wireless added three times more net subscribers in the quarter than AT&T, it only activated 2.3 million Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhones compared with 3.6 million activations at AT&T. [ID:nN1E76K0JK]
"AT&T has done a much better job of hanging on to iPhone customers than anybody expected," said Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin.
There was simply not enough good news in the report to justify Verizon's richer valuation than AT&T's, said Chaplin, who said Verizon shares have been trading at about 14 times 2012 earnings estimates compared with AT&T's 12 multiple.
Verizon Wireless' 1.9 percent growth in average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) was well behind Chaplin's expectation for 2.9 percent.
"Without the share gain in the smartphone category driving the ARPU, which would drive earnings per share growth, it's difficult to get enthusiastic about the (Verizon) shares at this valuation," Chaplin said.
AT&T may leapfrog Verizon Wireless and become the top U.S. mobile service next year if regulators approve its plan to buy Deutsche Telekom unit (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile USA.
WRONG KIND OF SUBSCRIBERS
And while while the subscriber numbers were strong on the surface "they were the wrong kind of subscribers," Chaplin said. Subscribers using devices such as the iPhone spend more on data services on a monthly basis than other wireless customers.
Verizon Wireless said it would now take it a quarter longer than expected to increase its smartphone user base to 50 percent of is subscribers. It blamed the delay on the launch of the next iPhone a quarter later than it had expected. Verizon said it now expects to sell the next version of iPhone in the autumn.
Still, Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon and Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), added 1.3 million net subscribers in the quarter compared with the average expectation for about 930,000, according to seven analysts contacted by Reuters.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Chris King was impressed with Verizon's customer growth and its sale of 1.2 million high-speed wireless devices for the new 4G network it is building.
While some investors had worried that the relatively expensive iPhone would hurt Verizon's profit margins, King said its wireless service margin of 45.4 percent was well ahead of his expectation for 43.9 percent.
Verizon's quarterly profit was $1.61 billion, or 57 cents a share and was ahead of the average analyst estimate of 55 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 2.8 percent to $27.53 billion, ahead of Wall Street expectations for $27.42 billion.
Also on Friday, Verizon named Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam as chief executive, starting Aug. 1. McAdam, the former CEO of Verizon Wireless, is replacing Ivan Seidenberg, who will remain chairman. The move follows its succession plan announced late last year.
Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception in 2000 and before that he was CEO of Verizon's predecessor companies. The executive, who started out as a cable splicer's assistant at New York Telephone, has worked at the company for more than 40 years.
Verizon shares were down $1.06 or 2.8 percent at $36.51 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after falling as much as 3 percent shortly after the market opened. (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Joyjeet Das, Derek Caney and Phil Berlowitz)
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.....
Verizon iPhone sales dash hopes; shares fall
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/verizon-idUSN1E76L07I20110722
NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications (VZ.N) may have the iPhone, but the blockbuster smartphone has yet to pay off in its battle against AT&T Inc (T.N).
In the second quarter, Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, signed up 1.3 million fewer iPhone customers than AT&T, dashing high hopes of investors who sent its shares down almost 3 percent.
On top of this, Verizon Wireless customers spent less per month than expected as the company changed its data service price plans, further disappointing Wall Street on Friday.
While Verizon Wireless added three times more net subscribers in the quarter than AT&T, it only activated 2.3 million Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhones compared with 3.6 million activations at AT&T. [ID:nN1E76K0JK]
"AT&T has done a much better job of hanging on to iPhone customers than anybody expected," said Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin.
There was simply not enough good news in the report to justify Verizon's richer valuation than AT&T's, said Chaplin, who said Verizon shares have been trading at about 14 times 2012 earnings estimates compared with AT&T's 12 multiple.
Verizon Wireless' 1.9 percent growth in average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) was well behind Chaplin's expectation for 2.9 percent.
"Without the share gain in the smartphone category driving the ARPU, which would drive earnings per share growth, it's difficult to get enthusiastic about the (Verizon) shares at this valuation," Chaplin said.
AT&T may leapfrog Verizon Wireless and become the top U.S. mobile service next year if regulators approve its plan to buy Deutsche Telekom unit (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile USA.
WRONG KIND OF SUBSCRIBERS
And while while the subscriber numbers were strong on the surface "they were the wrong kind of subscribers," Chaplin said. Subscribers using devices such as the iPhone spend more on data services on a monthly basis than other wireless customers.
Verizon Wireless said it would now take it a quarter longer than expected to increase its smartphone user base to 50 percent of is subscribers. It blamed the delay on the launch of the next iPhone a quarter later than it had expected. Verizon said it now expects to sell the next version of iPhone in the autumn.
Still, Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon and Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), added 1.3 million net subscribers in the quarter compared with the average expectation for about 930,000, according to seven analysts contacted by Reuters.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Chris King was impressed with Verizon's customer growth and its sale of 1.2 million high-speed wireless devices for the new 4G network it is building.
While some investors had worried that the relatively expensive iPhone would hurt Verizon's profit margins, King said its wireless service margin of 45.4 percent was well ahead of his expectation for 43.9 percent.
Verizon's quarterly profit was $1.61 billion, or 57 cents a share and was ahead of the average analyst estimate of 55 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 2.8 percent to $27.53 billion, ahead of Wall Street expectations for $27.42 billion.
Also on Friday, Verizon named Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam as chief executive, starting Aug. 1. McAdam, the former CEO of Verizon Wireless, is replacing Ivan Seidenberg, who will remain chairman. The move follows its succession plan announced late last year.
Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception in 2000 and before that he was CEO of Verizon's predecessor companies. The executive, who started out as a cable splicer's assistant at New York Telephone, has worked at the company for more than 40 years.
Verizon shares were down $1.06 or 2.8 percent at $36.51 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after falling as much as 3 percent shortly after the market opened. (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Joyjeet Das, Derek Caney and Phil Berlowitz)
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.....
The internet usage stats tell the same story of iOS users driving more web traffic...Hmmmm....
Verizon iPhone sales dash hopes; shares fall
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/verizon-idUSN1E76L07I20110722
NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications (VZ.N) may have the iPhone, but the blockbuster smartphone has yet to pay off in its battle against AT&T Inc (T.N).
In the second quarter, Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, signed up 1.3 million fewer iPhone customers than AT&T, dashing high hopes of investors who sent its shares down almost 3 percent.
On top of this, Verizon Wireless customers spent less per month than expected as the company changed its data service price plans, further disappointing Wall Street on Friday.
While Verizon Wireless added three times more net subscribers in the quarter than AT&T, it only activated 2.3 million Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhones compared with 3.6 million activations at AT&T. [ID:nN1E76K0JK]
"AT&T has done a much better job of hanging on to iPhone customers than anybody expected," said Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin.
There was simply not enough good news in the report to justify Verizon's richer valuation than AT&T's, said Chaplin, who said Verizon shares have been trading at about 14 times 2012 earnings estimates compared with AT&T's 12 multiple.
Verizon Wireless' 1.9 percent growth in average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) was well behind Chaplin's expectation for 2.9 percent.
"Without the share gain in the smartphone category driving the ARPU, which would drive earnings per share growth, it's difficult to get enthusiastic about the (Verizon) shares at this valuation," Chaplin said.
AT&T may leapfrog Verizon Wireless and become the top U.S. mobile service next year if regulators approve its plan to buy Deutsche Telekom unit (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile USA.
WRONG KIND OF SUBSCRIBERS
And while while the subscriber numbers were strong on the surface "they were the wrong kind of subscribers," Chaplin said. Subscribers using devices such as the iPhone spend more on data services on a monthly basis than other wireless customers.
Verizon Wireless said it would now take it a quarter longer than expected to increase its smartphone user base to 50 percent of is subscribers. It blamed the delay on the launch of the next iPhone a quarter later than it had expected. Verizon said it now expects to sell the next version of iPhone in the autumn.
Still, Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon and Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), added 1.3 million net subscribers in the quarter compared with the average expectation for about 930,000, according to seven analysts contacted by Reuters.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Chris King was impressed with Verizon's customer growth and its sale of 1.2 million high-speed wireless devices for the new 4G network it is building.
While some investors had worried that the relatively expensive iPhone would hurt Verizon's profit margins, King said its wireless service margin of 45.4 percent was well ahead of his expectation for 43.9 percent.
Verizon's quarterly profit was $1.61 billion, or 57 cents a share and was ahead of the average analyst estimate of 55 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 2.8 percent to $27.53 billion, ahead of Wall Street expectations for $27.42 billion.
Also on Friday, Verizon named Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam as chief executive, starting Aug. 1. McAdam, the former CEO of Verizon Wireless, is replacing Ivan Seidenberg, who will remain chairman. The move follows its succession plan announced late last year.
Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception in 2000 and before that he was CEO of Verizon's predecessor companies. The executive, who started out as a cable splicer's assistant at New York Telephone, has worked at the company for more than 40 years.
Verizon shares were down $1.06 or 2.8 percent at $36.51 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after falling as much as 3 percent shortly after the market opened. (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Joyjeet Das, Derek Caney and Phil Berlowitz)
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.....
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Hmmmm....
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.....
Bet there's an app for that, that'll do that for you. lol
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