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Tag Archives: Apple
Google Music Beta (a belated review)
The original iPod was first rolled out a decade ago this month, and it utterly transformed the way we consume music. It’s safe to say that digital music is rampantly popular; according to NMM Q2 data, 46% percent of consumers listen on a weekly basis–this number jumps to 94% among consumers that own at least [...]
Posted in Digital Media
Also tagged Amazon, Cloud, Cloud Player, digital music, Google, iCloud, iPod, kindle fire, mp3, music
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Cell Phone Selection-Why Some People Prefer “Dumb” Phones
This week’s Data Point of the Week examines the main concerns consumers have when purchasing phones. These reasons are segmented by the specific type of phone purchased to glean some understanding on why phone owners purchased app-heavy smartphones, middle-ground messaging phones, or bare-bones basic phones. The range of factors for each of the three major [...]
Posted in Business, mobile, Uncategorized
Also tagged Android, Cell phones, data plan, dumbphone, incharts, internet, messaging phone, mobile, phones, qwerty, smartphone
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Mobile Device Convergence or How Apple Came to Rule the World
Today’s data point of the week (with brand-spanking new Q2 data!) captures an important movement in consumer technology. If it wasn’t already obvious, the multitude of available gadgets that have performed single functions are hitting e-waste collection bins in favor of smaller devices that are more competent in a vast number of functions. Technological advances [...]
Posted in Business, Digital Media
Also tagged AAPL, Digital Camera, iPad, iPod, Laptop, Macbook, netbook, PC, Q2, Tablet, XOM
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Online Video Reaches Adolescence
When thinking about the online video industry, it’s difficult to imagine that it’s really no more than a decade old. Its growth as a legitimate and broadly available consumer product has been explosive in the last several years. The current state of online video is volatile and constantly shifting as studios are battling with distributors [...]
Posted in Business, Digital Media
Also tagged Amazon, movies, MPAA, Netflix, online video, streaming video, TV, Zediva
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Apple OS Support’s Short Shelf Life
How long are you planning on owning your current computer? Set aside the real world complications of coffee spills, overheated hard drives and thieves. In an ideal situation, how long should your computer last? I found out my answer to that question this weekend: 5 years. I bought a top of the line PowerBook Pro [...]
The Phone Gaming Revolution: Do the PSP and DS Stand a Chance?
The release of my most recent report, entitled “The Phone Gaming Revolution: Do the PSP and DS Stand a Chance?,” this week generated a great deal of heated discussion on video game and tech websites that I feel warrants a response from me. The report points to the explosive growth of phone gaming and questions [...]
Posted in mobile, Video Games
Also tagged 3DS, Android, apps, business strategies, casual games, DS, EA, games, Google, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, mobile, new media measure, Nintendo, phone gaming, psp, PSP phone, smartphone, social games, Sony, Video games
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Android – 100k apps, important or not?
News that the Android Marketplace now has 100,000 apps available to Android OS owners got us thinking – do Android users really care and what does this mean for their attempts to sway consumers from other OS platforms? According to data from New Media Measure’s™ second quarter 2010 study, nearly 40% of all smartphone owners use [...]
Posted in Business, mobile
Also tagged Android, apps, business strategies, Google, mobile, new media measure, twitter
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Will an iTunes Subscription Service Work?
As we posted in our data point of the week, our New Media Measure™ data shows that almost half of users who purchased a song or album from iTunes claim that “when acquiring music, [they] would rather pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited downloads than pay for each song or album.” A subscription-based iTunes [...]
E-book Reader – Current and Planned Ownership
Plastic Logic announced yesterday they are canceling the release of their Que ebook reader device. The decision is a good one. It would have been near impossible to compete in a marketplace at a price point of $649 – especially in light of Amazon Kindle’s recent price reductions – and also because the market is [...]