2nd Dean Wormer Award goes to Canadian research firms

iPhonAsia issues our 2nd Dean Wormer Award
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And the co-winners are … drum roll please … Royal Bank of Canada and Canaccord Adams
iPhonAsia comment: Opinion Alert! The following post is just one man’s opinion (yes bias) and our view is unabashedly pro Apple (AAPL). See also related post > Does RBC have a leaky Chinese Wall?
In mid [...]

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iPhone vs BB Storm – what’s inside and how much?

 
iSuppli: BlackBerry Storm costs $4 more than its purchase price to build > HERE
In a fiscal climate where profit margin reigns intensely supreme, we’ve got yet another dollop of bad news to heap upon the parfait of pain that is the $199 (after $50 mail in rebate) BlackBerry Storm.Research firm, iSuppli, estimates that the cost for the
components [...]

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iPhone Death Watch :)

 

Excerpts from Apple’s Q4 earnings call on Oct. 21, 2008 – Steve Jobs: ….“iPhone business has grown to about $4.6 billion, or 39% of Apple’s total business, clearly too big for Apple management or investors to ignore. 
… adjusted sales for the quarter were $11.68 billion, 48% higher than the reported revenue of $7.9 billion, while adjusted [...]

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RIM CEO discusses Bold and iPhone

CNBC’s Jim Goldman interviews Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie. See VIDEO and Read Jim Goldman’s post > HERE
More important background via > Boy Genius Report 

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iPhone for Enterprise: Most excited, yet there are always a few skeptics

Apple iPhone News: Not All Love Push For Enterprise Customers
   
Posted By: Jim Goldman
A day after the iPhone news from Apple, we’ve all had a chance to digest the ramifications of the announcements and as you might expect, there’s a lot of opinions floating through Wall Street about just how significant, and important the news is. > [...]

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iPhone SDK is a big deal for enterprise!

   
 
Rex Crum interview with Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin.  Discussion covers SDK, iPhone for enterprise, impact on RIM, VC Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund to foster iPhone applications. 
“I’ve know John Doerr for a long time and he knows how bet on winning horses … and the fact that he is the one behind this [iFund] [...]

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Canalys: Survey says … Smartphones!

Smart mobile devices one of fastest growing segments in tech industry, says Canalys
Canalys – February 7, 2008
Smart mobile device shipments hit 118 million in 2007, up 53 percent on 2006 levels, according to Canalys. The analyst firm’s latest market data shows how much the converged device market, which includes all smart phones and wireless handhelds, has [...]

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Survey: Apple, RIM benefit most from “seismic shift” to smartphones

Apple 2.0
Mac news from outside the reality distortion field – by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Survey: Apple, RIM benefit most from “seismic shift” to smartphones >HERE
February 8, 2008

EXECRPT: Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion (RIMM)’s BlackBerry appear to be the primary beneficiaries in what ChangeWave Research describes as a “seismic shift” in the mobile phone market, as record numbers [...]

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Smart Phones growth in Asia-Pacific leads way

Asia-Pacific leads way in converged-device shipment volume
Zafar Anjum02.06.2008
EXCERPT: Though Apple has not yet launched the iPhone in the region, many vendors who are successful in other parts of the world, such as RIM and Palm, have also made relatively little impact there so far in the region, the report by Canalys said.
Commenting on Apple’s entry [...]

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Apple surprises while Nokia stays in command of smart phones

        
Apple grabs healthy share of smartphone market

EXCERPT: full article > HERE …The latest market data from analyst firm Canalys shows how much the converged device (smart phone) market has grown over the past year.
These, typically high-end, devices represented around 10% of the global mobile phone market by units in 2007, with annual growth of [...]

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