Tag: Apple
Camera sales plunge 28% in January 2018. Blame the smartphone?
January turned out to be a tough month for camera sales. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and all the rest are likely reeling a bit from this bit of troubling news.
A report out of Japan suggests sales for the digital still camera (DSC) segment fell 28% y/y. CIPA's data...
Fitbit Versa looks a lot like a Pebble smartwatch… and that’s a good thing
This could be a very interesting smartwatch if Fitbit prices it right.
Apple to (finally) eliminate iPhone notch?
Oh, the irony. Apple plans to remove notch from the iPhone X and subsequent models. Meantime Google has added notch support to Android as several phone makers copy Apple's (quirky) design.
Smart Home News: A new SmartThings app has been released in the app store
Samsung Connect is now SmartThings. SmartThings is now SmartThings Classic. Got it?
Is this the Fitbit smartwatch us Pebblers have been waiting for?
There is hope after all.
Leaked images today reveal what looks to be Fitibit's next crack at a smartwatch. And, low and behold, it looks awfully familiar in design to an old lost friend:
Thankfully. While the Fitbit Ionic isn't bad, it isn't great either. Unfortunately sales have been lackluster, as...
Fitbit struggles, says will further shift product mix to smartwatches
Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) announced today. Unfortunately, in case you haven't already heard, the news for the wearable maker is not so great.
At $570.8 million in revenue and a net loss of $45.5 million Q4 missed expectations. There were some bright spots if you sift through the financials:
Fitbit added...
Trendspotting: Smartphone sales drop for first time (Gartner Report)
Gartner reports 5.6% year-over-year decline for global smartphone sales.
Report: Apple Watch shipments jump 54% y/y, 18 million sold in 2017
When it comes to wearables it seems Apple is just about the only game in town. At least, if we're talking about market share.
Analyst firm Canalys estimates 18 million Apple Watches were shipped in 2017, beating expectations. That represents a 54% year-over-year increase. Which is to say: very impressive.
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Amazon soars, Alphabet & Apple falter – Are earnings an indication of Alexa’s momentum?
"Alexa, take a victory lap."
Amazon stock (NASDAQ: AMZN) soared today in after-hours trading thanks to Q4 results that blew away expectations. Short of it: $60B revenue; $2.1B operating income. For a company as big as Amazon -- it's hard to fathom.
Meanwhile, Google's parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) missed its...
Trendspotting: Are slow iPhone X sales and Samsung’s struggling mobile business a canary in a coal mine for smartphone sales?
Because my 3-year-old Motorola Nexus 6 does the job just fine and doesn't require a second mortgage to buy.
