Samsung Electronics said Friday that the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion…
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United States bans all Samsung Note 7 phones on airline flights
All Samsung Electronics Co. Note 7 smartphones will be banned from airline flights…
Exploding phones are not beleaguered Samsung’s only defective and unsafe product
Samsung had no clue what caused their products to explode, yet shipped replacements anyway, assuring their customers the products were safe…
Beleaguered Samsung’s cellphone dilemma
How does Samsung reassure customers? What about other models? If Samsung doesn’t know the cause of this problem, how do they keep another product from inheriting similar defects?
Exploding Galaxy phones: What did Samsung know and when did they know it?
When several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones spontaneously exploded in August…
Higher income U.S. states use Apple iPhones; lower income states use Samsung Galaxy phones
Apple announced earlier this year that it has officially reached the 1 billion active devices milestone…
Where it all went wrong for China’s Apple iPhone-knockoff maker Xiaomi
It was just four days after Christmas 2014, and for Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi…
Apple’s iPhone falls to 5th in China smartphone marketshare
In the battle for the Chinese smartphone market, Apple has lost ground in both marketshare and shipment quantities…
iOS users are worth 10X more than those who settle for Android
Strikingly, revenue is about ten times more per iOS device than Android…
No, the app boom is not over
There has never been a better time to be an apps developer…
Apple’s iOS: The platform where consumers get the best of all worlds
The best of every company’s software and services efforts will be on Apple’s iOS…
Apple’s App Store revenue nearly double that of Google’s Android
App Annie has released its regular report on the two main app stores in the mobile world…
Apple generated more iPhone revenue in one quarter than Android has in its entire existence
Android has generated less revenue over its lifetime than the iPhone did in the quarter ended September 30th, Apple’s most recently reported quarter…
Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 for default search on iPhone and iPad
Google Inc. is paying Apple Inc. a hefty fee to keep its search bar on iOS…
Study: Apple iPhone users are healthier than those who settle for Android phones
We pulled sweet, sweet data from both our Android and iPhone apps…
All is not well on planet Android, despite unit share dominance
More than a billion Android devices were sold in 2014…
Rockstar patents could bring Apple nearly $400 million profit
Google’s Android operating system, which copied large portions of Oracle’s Java and lifted the look and feel of Apple’s iOS…
Significant Android to iPhone switching weakens market for Samsung Galaxy S6
Apple’s impressive sales figures from Q4 2014 continue to have an impact…
Cellphone makers fight over table scraps left by Apple’s unstoppable iPhone
Other manufacturers just look on in awe…
UBS: Billions at stake for Google on Apple default search deal
This could be bad news for Google…
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline
For the first time in several years, iPhone actually gained market share…
Apple may not lead in market share, but dominates other critical metrics
Apple has been crushing the competition…
Google’s ‘Friends Furever’ ad attempts to turn debilitating Android fragmentation negative into a positive
Android devices come in all shapes and sizes…
Apple’s iPhone and the minority majority
Apple has the most valuable customers…
Samsung has already lost to Apple in smartphones
Apple’s greater profitability affords it the capital needed to fuel…
Apple just ‘tied’ Samsung without even trying
Apple Inc. captured the top spot in China’s smartphone market…
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones
More than 42% of U.S. smartphones are iPhones…
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things
One of the bigger supposed mysteries out there is why so many prominent mobile apps…
Chinese Xiaomi copycat hit with patent infringement lawsuits, sales bans
Xiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China by peddling iPhone knockoffs…
China’s Xiaomi made a meager $56 million profit in 2013
South Korea’s LG lost its position as the world’s third-biggest…
More affluent, tech-savvier Apple iOS users outspend Android users by 25 percent
Apple iOS mobile users spent about 25% more than Android owners…
Apple iOS app launches are double that of Android; iOS apps used for twice as long
Users of Apple’s iOS install, engage with and pay for more mobile applications…
Why Silicon Valley doesn’t care about Android
Android monetizes poorly and is used by poor people. iOS is a much more attractive platform, while Android continues to lag behind…
Apple iPhone continues utter domination with 86% share of handset industry profits
A new analysis of handset industry operating profits estimates that Apple accounted for a massive 86 percent share…
As competitors slum it, Apple readies release of Android-crushing iPhone 6
Two types of customers will matter to Apple when it releases iPhone 6 later this year…
Why Apple’s Mac makes me confident about the iPhone’s future
Much has been made of the iPhone’s declining market share…
In Beats restructuring, Apple CEO Tim Cook sends subliminal message to Pandora
With the announcement of the restructuring, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Apple calls Samsung’s bluff
What a difference a year has made in the smartphone business…
Apple’s iOS vs. Google’s Android: The wealth of ecosystems
iOS has a higher ‘wealth share’ than Android and this wealth gap will only widen with time…
Dispelling market misconceptions of Apple
Apple understands that profit share is more important than market share…
Apple and the market share myth
Some believe that Macs were the most popular personal computers on the planet…
Microsoft’s Windows falls to under 90%, Apple’s Mac rises over 8%
Apple’s Mac computers have advanced to a new high in worldwide market share…