Apple’s Q1 International Sales Now 61% Of Revenues, As China Up By 67% To $6.8B, Europe Up 11% To $12.5B
Apple today posted Q1 earnings that indicated that -- despite wider problems in the European economy, and price and device competition from Android everywhere, it continues to make advances in international markets. Apple broke out sales in Greater China on its balance sheet, which were up by 67% on the same quarter last year, and 26% on the last quarter, to $6.8 billion. And sales in Europe were up by 11% to $12.5 billion. Apple says that international sales overall, which also includes the wider Americas,
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Samsung Drops European Injunction Requests Against Apple
An anonymous reader writes with this IDG News report: "Samsung dropped all claims pending in European courts in which it asserted patents that are essential for mobile communication devices to prevent the sales of Apple products in Europe. The injunction requests against Apple, which aimed to get courts to impose sales bans on infringing products, were withdrawn in the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. Samsung only withdrew the injunctions requests — other litigation against Apple in Europe continues, Anne ter Braak, a spokeswoman for Samsung in the Netherlands, said in an email on Tuesday. While Samsung said it withdrew its claims in the interest of protecting consumer choice, it could have to do with a European antitrust investigation."
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The Rise of Feudal Computer Security
Hugh Pickens writes "In the old days, traditional computer security centered around users. However, Bruce Schneier writes that now some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google (using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Android phones) while others have pledged allegiance to Apple (using Macintosh laptops, iPhones, iPads; and letting iCloud automatically synchronize and back up everything) while others of us let Microsoft do it all. 'These vendors are becoming our feudal lords, and we are becoming their vassals. We might refuse to pledge allegiance to all of them — or to a particular one we don't like. Or we can spread our allegiance around. But either way, it's becoming increasingly difficult to not pledge allegiance to at least one of them.' Classical medieval feudalism depended on overlapping, complex, hierarchical relationships. Today we users must trust the security of these hardware manufacturers, software vendors, and cloud providers and we choose to do it because of the ...
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Windows Phone Is Taking Share From RIM, But It’s Still Nowhere Near Breaking Through The Android/iOS Stronghold: Research
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market research group, today released its latest 12-week smartphone sales figures across the key markets in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, and the figures show that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is definitely making some progress, and in at least one case, in Italy, overtaking RIM as the fourth-largest smartphone OS in terms of actual sales. But it has a long way to go before getting enough critical mass to challenge the combined dominance of Google's Android and Apple's iOS in the smartphone race. Combined, the latter two are currently accounting for 93% of sales in markets like the U.S. Kantar Worldpanel analyst Dominic Sunnebo tells TechCrunch that smartphone penetration in the UK is now at 57.6%, while the U.S. penetration is 42% (that includes both prepaid and postpaid).
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Apple’s Feeling Europe’s Economic Crisis: ‘Essentially Flat’ Revenues
Apple often gets a lot of love in Europe, but in the last quarter that wasn't enough to help it against the tide of economic woe hitting the region. In today's Q3 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook described sales in the region as "essentially flat to slightly positive" -- and, not unlike the wider macro-economy, "that really hampered our total results." Specifically, he noted that France, Greece and Italy were "particularly poor", and Germany saw "only single digital positive growth." Interestingly, the UK seemed immune to this situation and posted a "solid" 13 percent growth rate.
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