Meanwhile, 44% of tablet shoppers plan to buy an iPad versus 24% for Kindle Fire
FORTUNE -- Consumer preferences in one of this holiday's hottest categories -- tablet computers -- shifted pretty dramatically between the third and fourth quarters, according to a new survey of U.S. households with broadband access published Thursday by Parks Associates.
Among its findings:
For the first time, more U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a tablet for the holidays MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2012 5:10 PM ET
Android is No. 2 at 35.3%. Windows Phone trails at 6.5%
FORTUNE -- Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has been analyzing Twitter comments and polling a group of more than 800 consumers to try to gauge demand for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5. On Thursday he released his latest findings:
As summarized by the chart above, interest in buying an iPhone 5 in the next three months jumped from 47.7% to 54.9% after it MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2012 11:39 AM ET
For starters, it usually takes you where you meant to go
FORTUNE -- On Wednesday, 84 days after Apple (AAPL) shot itself in the foot by replacing its original mobile Maps app with a Google-free version that wasn't ready for prime time, Google (GOOG) announced that a new, all-Google Maps app was available as a free download. The rush to get it was so intense that by late Wednesday it had MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2012 8:50 AM ET
Didn't have enough English to know that the Apple Store manager had asked her to leave
FORTUNE -- Where's Apple PR when you need them?
In a story that's bound to be widely picked up, local TV news stations in New England were having a field day Wednesday with blurry cellphone video of a tiny 44-year-old Chinese woman being held to the ground and tasered outside an Apple Store by a pair MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 12, 2012 11:38 PM ET
Elevation Partner's McNamee gives Google, Microsoft and Samsung a piece of his mind
FORTUNE -- "I'm no Apple fanboy," says venture capitalist Roger McNamee before ripping into Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Twitter, Samsung and -- to a lesser extent -- Apple (AAPL) in a 21-minute interview with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton that's one for the quote book.
A few choice sound bites:
"Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 12, 2012 5:32 PM ET
What do any of their concerns have to do with building great products?
FORTUNE -- If Tim Cook needed further validation of Steve Jobs' policy of ignoring the needs and entreaties of Apple's (AAPL) shareholders, the results of the survey at right, released Wedenesday, could provide it.
It comes from a recent luncheon in New York City with several dozen Apple investors that was hosted by Barclays analysts Ben Reitzes and Anthony DiClemente.
If "the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 12, 2012 11:45 AM ET
Century City Mall, Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
FORTUNE -- For those who still bear the scars of last century's desktop wars between Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) we offer another in our series of contrasting store photos. This one was shot Tuesday afternoon by reader Howard Kaplan at Los Angeles' Westfield Century City Mall, half-way between Beverly Hills and Westwood, Calif.
You can write your own caption.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 12, 2012 10:52 AM ET
Bottom line: Margins up, revenues down, earnings unchanged. The stock: who knows?
FORTUNE -- Citing supply chain sources, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu fine-tuned his Apple (AAPL) estimates again Wednesday:
He raised his iPhone unit sales estimates for this quarter to 47.5 million (from 47.3 million) based on improving yields and availability. (The iPhone 5 launched in Korea last Friday and lands in 50-plus more countries this Friday.)
He lowered his iPad estimates to 23.5 million (from 25 MORE
Once again, the Journal has stoked the fires of Apple TV set speculation
FORTUNE -- It's almost exactly a year since the Wall Street Journal sent shivers of anticipatory glee through the Apple (AAPL) investment community with a report on the company's "assault" on the TV business.
That story, based on leaks from media executives who had asked Apple to brief them on its plans, suggested that Cupertino was pursuing two paths: MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 12, 2012 7:51 AM ETNo. 1 in a list that includes two tablets, a thermostat, a couple cameras and a $35 PC
FORTUNE -- Two Apple (AAPL) products made Time Magazine's list of the top 10 gadgets of 2012: The Retina MacBook Pro (No. 6) and the iPhone 5 (No. 1). Here's what Time's Harry McCracken had to say about the new iPhone:
Apple may be responsible for more than its share of the tech industry's great leaps MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 11, 2012 5:39 PM ET