Apple presented its quarterly report for the third financial quarter ended at the end of June, which was so expected by specialists. As it was expected, the report turned out to be positive due to high sales of iPhone 4 smartphones and new iPad devices (at the same time, the demand for products from iPad application developers has also increased). Moreover, the company stated that PC and laptop users have started purchasing new products from Mac more actively.
In the third quarter the net profit of Apple reached 3.25 bln dollars or 3.51 dollars in comparison with 1.83 bln dollars or 2.01 dollars for a share a year before. On average the experts were expecting the net profit of Apple at the level of 3.11 bln dollars.
According to the head of the company Steve Jobs, till the end of this year Apple will concentrate on the mobile developments with low marginality in order to expand its users’ base. Jobs noted that now all key products including Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod are sold either at the expected level or a bit higher. Also the head of the company promised a few more product innovations till the end of the year.
In the reporting period the proceeds of the company increased by 61% and reached the all time high level of 15.7 bln dollars having exceeded the expectations of analytics at 14.7 bln dollars. According to Apple, the quarterly proceeds at 15.7 bln dollars are the highest result for the whole 30-year period of their presence at the market.
Archive for July, 2010
Apple informed about an all-time high quarterly proceeds and profits
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Google recorded 160,000 activations of Android devices a day
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Once again Google shared the statistics of the growing popularity of the Google Android platform. According to it, 160,000 devices pass daily activation (4.8 mln a month).
Activation means the input of user’s data from the Google services after which the regular Android OS service clients start working (synchronization of the address book, calendar, letters, Android Market and so on). This figure has increased by 60%.
The amount of software offered by Android apps developers is also growing – from 50,000 up to 65,000 applications as of the end of June. According to the Google’s management, the given dynamics can be considered positive and shows that the platform is welcomed by users. Moreover, Google is sure that the Android OS will become the top mobile OS and will probably replace Windows if we compare it with the PC market.
It should be noted that Android communicators are really sold very actively – now quarterly about 15 mln of them are sold and for the first quarter of 2010 were sold about 54 mln devices, according to the analytics from Gartner. Against this growth, the success of Apple is very illustrative – thus, according to some statistics, the number of people wishing to buy iPhone 4 on the first day reached 600,000 people.
More than half of mobile applications at Android Market are free
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Android’s market share of free applications stands out against the competitors’ one: about 57% of applications at the Android Market can be obtained for free. At the App Store the number of such applications is 28%, at the BlackBerry Apps World – 26%. But the users of Windows Mobile devices have to pay more often than others – only 22% of available applications at the Windows Marketplace are free.
According to the research done by Distimo, more than 50% of applications in any existing store cost no more than $2. Besides, the biggest part of applications at the App Store is less than $1. It may be one of the reasons for such stunning sales, according to Apple; so far applications have been downloaded more than 5 bln times.
The big part of free soft at the Android Market is a positive moment for the users of smartphones based on the open platform. However, from the point of view of monetization, placing applications at the App Store is more profitable for mobile apps developers. The additional benefit is the Apple iAd platform which allows Apple apps developers to place advertising modules into their products and earn additionally at demonstration.
Blackberry & Nokia will give in their positions at the market of mobile apps & devices
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
In the nearest future the producers of smartphones RIM and Nokia will face the problem of changing their positions at the market. The reason of this will become the actions of Apple and Google. The analytics from Goldman Sachs’ warned about this after analyzing the state of retail sales of smartphones in the US.
According to their data, the RIM Blackberry devices stopped being best-sellers at the mobile operators (apart from AT&T) because of a rapidly growing interest to the latest Android based communicators and the corresponding demand for them at consumers. However, despite all this, RIM will be able to realize about 11 mln smartphones by the end of the year, which will be a good result in comparison with the previous period ended with 11.2 mln devices sold.
The situation at the Finnish producer is even more tragic than at the Canadian company. Nokia itself is expecting the decrease of sales at the end of the spring sales – up to $8.3 bln or even lower due to a high competition at the market of highly technological devices.
While the market share of Nokia is still big, the share of Apple with its best-sellers iPhone and Google Android is growing rapidly thanks to launching new devices. The players of the mobile application market take advantage of the situation and actively place orders for mobile application development for Android. Numerous iPhone apps developers are trying to keep up with them.