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iPhone 5: Apple’s Weapon Against Android?
It looks like we have reached the “rumor-a-day” phase of the iPhone 5 mania. With the latest rumors hinting at either a September or early October release date, we might be only a month or two away from Apple’s next-gen …
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iPhone 5: Apple’s Weapon Against Android?
iPad 2 Sales Estimates Of 400,000 To 1 Million Issued
Now that the first weekend during which the iPad 2 was available is over, sales estimates are coming in left and right, and they tend to be quite positive. Piper Jaffray, for example, believes that perhaps 500,000 iPad 2s flew off shelves, and Wedbush Securities thinks a number in the neighborhood of 1 million is possible. To start with the less optimistic guess: Philip Elmer-DeWitt , who got a look at the Piper Jaffray report, wrote, “[Senior Research Analyst Gene] Munster is sticking with his estimate of 400,000 to 500,000 iPad 2s sold, compared with 300,000 iPad 1s in its first weekend last year.” Then DeWitt continued, “The difference is that nearly all those iPad 2s were sold in one day; stocks were essentially depleted by Saturday and not replenished. In its calls to retailers over the weekend, his team was unable to find a single iPad 2.” Piper Jaffray contacted retailers in New York and Minneapolis, by the way, and we can confirm that Target stores in Lexington, Kentucky ran out, as well.
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iPad 2 Sales Estimates Of 400,000 To 1 Million Issued
Piper Jaffray Forecasts 50% Market Share For Android
Piper Jaffray, an investment banking firm that earned $7.4 million in net income last quarter, is betting on Android in a big way.? Today, Piper Jaffray predicted that Android’s market share will pass the 50 percent mark in the next five years. Don’t look for the rise to the halfway mark to happen all at once.? The report explained, “We estimate Google will control 14.9% of the smartphone market through Android in 2010, growing to 23.2% in 2012.” Meanwhile, Apple’s market share is also supposed to increase, hitting 17.6 percent in 2012. Here’s the key thing, though: according to Larry Dignan , Piper Jaffray stated, “Ultimately, we believe Android is likely to control over half of the smartphone market in the next five years.
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