Archive for January, 2010

Apple iPad only sell 499 U.S. dollars

Posted by admin on January 31, 2010
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As Apple iPad tablet PC starts at only U.S. $ 499, which requires manufacturers like Asus and MSI to adjust its pricing strategy for the Tablet PC.

Before that, Asus and other PC laptop battery manufacturers Tablet PC pricing strategy: lower prices Tablet PC Apple 20% -30%, and their hands on Apple Tablet PC prices should be 1000.

Today, Apple iPad starting price of only $ 499 U.S., forcing officials Tablet PC to reassess its pricing strategy. To attract consumers, they can be adjusted even lower prices.

There is no doubt that this will involve the issue of profit margins. According to industry sources, these companies also want to avoid price war.

Apple’s popular iPhone application functionality and integration are the general trend of global content

Posted by admin on January 29, 2010
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Apple laptop battery last year’s impressive performance on their applications are still thriving in the mobile phone, cell phone game downloads is the “key.” Learn from experience, for our mobile application market, it should focus on people with usage, integration and function of mobile content, which will be the general trend

iPhone Mobile Application multi-faceted, swept the globe. According to foreign media reports, after the U.S. launch of iPhone applications, after the White House, the U.S. Army in the official home page Army.mil also launched its own iPhone application. Apple’s popular applications in the global extent of the Gartner recently issued a report had reflected: In 2009, Apple accounted for 99.4% of the global mobile application market share, which is where mobile game downloads still the first one.

Apple’s open platform to not only attracted a lot of ordinary people to contribute inputs for the App Store, but also for official bodies to participate in this platform. Thus, to Apple’s mobile applications, represented by the market has matured at the same time can be expected in the next few years will be a faster growth pace. For my country, cell phone use is a huge potential apple iBook G4 12-inch battery market, but their development still need to pay attention to user requirements.

Early January, Apple today announced the online store application downloads a breakthrough 3 billion. In other words, only in 2009, a year, iPhone users to download from Apple’s online store to purchase a 2.5 billion application. At the same time, Apple’s global market share in 2009 has been accounted for 99.4%, allowing Apple doing my part to “sit tight” mobile phone applications, “overlord” throne.

Apple’s App Store so successful, profitable business model of electronic information industry, to stimulate each nerve, the major companies have test the water cell phone use, cell phone use shops have sprung up.

Last year, the star of the brand NOKIA mobile phone launched OviStore, Samsung, Palm, RIM is equally not to be outdone. Other communications industry chain and cell phone use over a longer distance company “lost its lonely”, have shot you want in the mobile application market, “a share”: for example, Microsoft released the software predators SkyMarket. Mobile operators as an integral part of the communications industry, nature will not miss this important opportunity, so in foreign countries such as Vodafone, China Mobile, Unicom, Telecom also have started creating their own mobile application store.

In these competitors, in fact, there is no lack strong person, such as Google Android Market, although only approximately 20000 procedures, but this number is still rapidly growing, the current average monthly rate of increase of new applications 3544. Google application, although the growth rate of invisible pressure to Apple, but could not shake the dominant position of Apple’s mobile phone applications.

Proved the prospects for prediction. Gartner report shows that if Apple  apple iBook G4 12-inch battery can keep the current pace of this growth, then the 2010 application downloads through its online store is expected to reach 4.5 billion times the amount of revenue will reach 6.8 billion. By 2013, Apple’s online store application downloads will reach 21.6 billion times, revenue up to 29.5 billion U.S. dollars.

Mobile phone games surely, “sit” Mobile Application of the top spot

All along, the mobile phone to download the application to the game downloads on the “main event.” According to Game Developers Conference (GDC) recent research data shows that the most widely used smart phone is the most popular gaming platform.

As early as February 4, 2008, the Internet, according to market researcher ComScore’s report, has pointed out that Apple’s iPhone the number of users to download mobile phone games is growing very fast, in November 2008, when an increase of 14%; the same time, mobile phone games the number of downloads in November 2008 shows an increase of 17%, reaching 8.5 million times. Data growth and user needs are inseparable. Venture Capital Report released by research institutions ChinaVenture also consider ,2008-2010 will be the mobile online games market in rapid development period. Therefore, cell phone games cell phone applications in the future will remain a top priority.

With the increase in the total mobile phone applications, social networking tools and office applications, downloads are also rising, such as social networking. According to IDC predicts that by 2012 the scale of corporate social networking will reach 2 billion U.S. dollars, and as the traditional desktop market shift to the mobile market, mobile social networking will become a routine application of an irresistible trend.
 

Other applications too. With the continued strengthening of smart phone features, it is the acceptance of smart phones and ever-increasing, these cell phone use will continue to be innovation and in people’s work, study and life to play a more important role.

Mobile applications should be made to imitate the work in the

In the domestic apple iBook G4 14-inch battery market, cell phone use has just begun.

Foreign mobile phone applications market has become more mature, but in our country until August 17, 2009 China Mobile Zhengshishangxian Mobile Market started on the right track. China Telecom subsequently introduced an online application store, but, overall, compared to the domestic market and abroad, has clearly failed.

Among the many participants into the Councils, some analysts believe that, “many participants like to imitate, but ignored the mobile application store is now competition in the market has turned into the Red Sea, Blue Ocean.” Visible, want to get a simple imitation of the successful is not so easy, simple copy will fail.

Apple iPhone + APPStore successful model in front of us in the domestic cell phone use “crossing the river by feeling the stones” of the period, Apple’s model or to provide you a lot of inspiration and experience. However, iPhone + APPStore the model can cope with the growth of the domestic soil, which depends on whether the leading mobile application providers to be able to clear the domestic market environment analysis. For example Chinese people’s spending habits, payment habits, ability to innovate is different from the model cell phone use will have a huge impact.

At present, the domestic cell phone use should first be quickly recognize their strengths and weaknesses, to adjust strategies to achieve win-win situation, to achieve progressively bigger and stronger. Second, suppliers should try to achieve win-win cooperation, strong-strong alliance to jointly cope with the market; at the same time to play the advantages of the traditional consumption patterns to broaden the channels for a profit.

AMD posts profit on Intel settlement

Posted by admin on January 26, 2010
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Advanced Micro Devices posted a fourth-quarter profit of $1.18 billion, its first profit in three years, largely due to a massive settlement with Intel.

The $1.178 billion profit, or $1.52 per share, beat the analyst consensus estimate that had projected AMD to record a loss of 18 cents per share. In the same quarter last year, AMD lost $1.4 billion, or $2.36 per share.

The second largest global supplier of processors for PCs posted revenue of $1.646 billion, an increase of 42 percent compared with the same period a year ago. This beat analyst revenue estimates, which were pegged at $1.5 billion.

Fourth-quarter AMD gross margin, an important indicator of profit, was 45 percent, compared with 42 percent in the prior quarter and 23 percent in the year-earlier period.

AMD stated that the “favorable impacts” on its net income were primarily from a legal settlement with Intel. During the quarter, Intel and AMD announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes. As a result of this agreement, Intel paid AMD $1.25 billion.

AMD said it expects revenue to be down seasonally for the first quarter of 2010.

Chief executive Dirk Meyer, who spoke during the company’s earnings conference call on Thursday, sees the PC market growing in “low double digits”–between 10 and 12 percent–in 2010.

And in 2010 the erstwhile chipmaker will put more distance between itself and its former manufacturing operation, which was spun off in 2008 and became Globalfoundries. “We have deconsolidated Globalfoundries starting in Q1. Moving forward, you will see us report AMD results only,” the company said in a statement. Globalfoundries will appear only as an equity investment in future AMD financial statements.

Notebooks a target as graphics chips surge
Laptops are a big target market for AMD in 2010, according to Meyer. “We’re under-penetrated in that category of product,” he said. “The broad (notebook) category represents an opportunity for us this year,” he said.

AMD laptop processors are expected to become more competitive as the company moves most of its chips to a more advanced 45-nanometer manufacturing process. Intel, meanwhile, is in the process of transitioning to an industry-leading 32-nanometer manufacturing process.

The company shipped a record number of mobile “discrete” (standalone) graphics processing units (GPUs) in the quarter. And overall revenue in the graphics chip segment was $427 million, a 40 percent sequential increase and a 58 percent year-to-year jump.

AMD could have shipped more GPUs but supply from its manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was “heavily constrained,” Meyer said. In particular, AMD’s new Radeon 5000 series of graphics processors have been well-received in the market.