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Apple beats Dell in US education laptop market

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 29 2008

Hidden in among Apple’s chief operating officer Tim Cook’s speech to the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium was a critical barometer of Apple’s success – Apple beat Dell in laptop sales in the US higher education market.
While most reports focused on Cook’s optimism as regards iPhone sales this year, the executive also told analysts: "We just received word on Monday that Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007," Cook claimed.

"The ceiling for the Macs is nowhere in sight. Even if the market itself isn’t growing, for us, switching Windows users is an enormous opportunity," Cook also added.

This is a critical metric for Apple, which once dominated computing on college campuses.

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Apps will drive iPhone sales – Goldman Sachs

Avatar for 9to5 Staff May 28 2008

 On strength of the multiplicity of soon-available applications, Apple will sell 20 million iPhones by the end of 2009, selling another 10 million in 2010, says Goldman Sachs.

"Third-party applications will differentiate the iPhone from a growing number of its smartphone competitors,” analyst David Bailey told The Financial Post. The analyst pointed out that deployment of Mac OS X on the device offers a “more robust” application development environment for developers, with the App Store promising a much better user experience, likely to sell more applications than existing smartphone application purchasing systems.

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Around the Web – April 22

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Apr 22 2008

It’s all about financial chatter and multimedia on the Apple news front this morning, with more analysts offering positive targets on the company’s stock and the debut of ITV on the Mac. 

In other news, Apple ships the Aperture SDK and reveals many plug-ins to match; Apple further improves its Chinese retail presence; MacBook Pro software updates and news Apple plans an IM client for iPhone. Read on…

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Around the Web – April 21

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Apr 21 2008

 As reported here Saturday, PayPal’s denial of a rumoured plan to block Safari users from using the online payments service leads the agenda this morning. In other news, analysts predict Apple’s Q2 results will once again excel against guidance; China becomes the world’s most-connected internet country; Apple plans virtual stores; a defamation lawsuit against the company has been thrown out of court and reports claim the next Leopard upgrade is currently being tested by developers. 

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Smartphone wars: Palm Pre cut to $100, RIM shares tumble

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Sep 25 2009

Apple’s iPhone may be in the ascendant, but competing players continue to face problems in the space, with Research In Motion shares falling 11 per cent on the pre-market this morning and the recently-introduced Palm Pre Phone this morning discounted to just $100 on Amazon.

Palm Pre carrier, Sprint, recently cut the cost of the Pre to $150 (after rebate on a 24-month contract), but Amazon today discounted that. That’s a $400 saving on the original retail price…and probably not a pretty sign for Pre…

Palm was in the news a lot this week, with market rumours speculating Nokia may make a bid to take over the company emerging at the same time as Palm issued a major tranche of new stock options in an attempt to pull in cold, hard investment cash.