Smartphones are entering the irritating terrain of gimmickry with features that most of us don’t care about, will not use or that just don’t work. In a desperate attempt at boosting sales, most of the major smartphone vendors including Apple, Samsung and LG are lately guilty of trumpeting features that are completely irrelevant to 95% […]
Selling electronic gadgets to Hanumans scampering down from coconut trees, mango trees, neem trees, guava trees, palm trees, jack-fruit trees and a thousand other kinds of Indian trees is not an easy task. Not some thing your ivy league MBA types can even dream of handling. You see, selling smartphones to a nation of 1.2 […]
Smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, the first time that over half the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. In the first quarter, smartphones accounted for 51.6% of all mobile phone shipments, according to market researcher IDC. Chinese Danger In a distressing development, two Chinese vendors Huawei […]
Apple reported results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 30,2013 and they are not pretty. The company’s profits for the quarter fell 18% to $9.5 billion ($10.09 a share) from $11.6 billion ($12.30 per share) in the same quarter a year ago. Apple observers note that this is the company’s first profit drop in […]
In slightly over seven months, Apple shareholders have lost a mind boggling $283.78 billion. I doubt there’s been anything like it in the history of stock markets. Apple’s share price, which peaked at $702.10 on September 19, 2012, closed at $398.67 on Monday, April 22, 2013. Apple’s market capitalization (total shares multiplied by share price) […]
Unconfirmed reports have it that screaming, banshee wails were heard this evening in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is buried. The manic screams in Palo Alto coincided with the launch in New York City of Samsung’s stunning new smartphone, the Galaxy S4. Embarrassment of Riches Weighing a mere 130gm and […]