AAPL to grow due to Macs, not iPhone, iPod?

Apple's Macintosh computers will play a bigger role in the company's growth than the iPhone and iPod, according to industry analysts. CNN Money reports that BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman today cut Apple's stock target from $160 to $140 per share. Bachman says that the iPhone's growth is slowing and he remains skeptical on Apple's target...]]>

Apple's iPhone Takes Third of Global Market (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Apple bested Motorola to grab third place in global fourth-quarter sales of smart mobile devices, according to market researcher Canalys.

iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US

CUPERTINO, California—February 26, 2008—Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world’s largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels.

Gartner: Apple to double marketshare in 3 years

Information technology research firm Gartner is forecasting Mac market share to double by 2011. By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in Computers. Apple’s gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple’s success. Apple is challenging its competitors with software integration that provides ease of use and flexibility; continuous and more frequent innovation in hardware and software; and an ecosystem that focuses on interoperability across multiple devices (such as iPod and iMac cross-selling) Apple’s current Mac marketshare stands at 7.57%, though it should be noted that that number only reflects those computers that go online. Gartner’s prediction would mean an increase to more that 15% of all online computers, a huge number for Apple, the company that has struggled with market share its whole life. Read full report [Gartner] Written by Adam Fisher-Cox for Appletell. | Permalink | Have something to say? Add a Comment! Section: Apple News, Operating-Systems, OS-X, Windows, Third-Party

Growth potential seen in steadily maturing iPod market

Though growth in Apple's iPod unit shipments has been declining since the end of 2006, price cuts like those applied to the iPod shuffle on Tuesday and cheaper Internet-capable models down the line should help the company reverse course and maintain ...

With mobile browser, Mozilla hopes to shake up market

Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will shake up the market as much as the introduction of the desktop browser did in 2004.