Posts Tagged ‘sales

Last weekend, book publisher Macmillan won out over Amazon in a battle over eBook pricing, switching to an “agency model” in which book prices are set by the publisher with retailers receiving a percentage (30% in Amazon’s case) of the sales price. …

Last weekend, book publisher Macmillan won out over Amazon in a battle over eBook pricing, switching to an “agency model” in which book prices are set by the publisher with retailers receiving a percentage (30% in Amazon’s case) of the sales price. …

Financial Times reports that Apple has been pressuring TV networks to lower their prices for iTunes content, hoping to pass along the savings to customers in order to spur sales. According to the report, Apple has been unhappy with the sales of tele…

Worldwide Smartphone Sales in 3Q09 in Thousands of Units (Source: Gartner) Research firm Gartner today issued a report covering worldwide mobile phone sales for the third quarter of 2009. The highlight of the data for Apple is the com…

Apple’s quarterly profits and revenue exceeded Wall Street analyst predictions, and both iPhones and Macintoshes experienced year-over-year growth in sales despite the economy. Apple revenue rose to $8.34 billion for the quarter ended June 27

Filed under: Apple Corporate , App Store Apple announced today in a short press release that it had sold 1.5 billion iPhone and iPod touch applications during the App Store’s first year of existence. Despite the slow economy, App Store sales appear to have accelerated since last year, showing a fairly positive polynomial trend. Apple is selling apps roughly five times faster than it did when the store opened

Filed under: Software , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review For those of you who still frequent brick and mortar stores, Jimmi Rehman has released the new FinalPrice 1.0 shopping app for the iPhone/iPod Touch at 99 cents. It requires 3.0 software to run. This app is a useful one-trick-pony. If you find a sale, the idea is to have your iPhone figure out how much something will cost after the item is discounted and after adding your local tax. The calculations are solid but I had some trouble with the interface

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Odds and ends , Apple Financial , iPhone TG Daily (via Fortune ) is reporting that Japanese market research company BCN’s latest rankings of cellphone sales in Japan are showing that Apple’s smartphone is the the current market leader in that country. I did a quick check at BCN this afternoon while writing this post, and the iPhone 3GS 32GB is listed in first place in sales (see screenshot at right), with the iPhone 3GS 16GB in second place. The 3GS was just introduced in Japan on June 26th, and the sales figures are from the week of June 22 – 28. BCN’s source of data includes point-of-sale information from many of Japan’s largest electronics retailers, including Amazon Japan, Eiden, Bic Camera, K’s Denki, and Best Denki.


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