mobile

Apple is down 4% today for apparently no reason. There is no major news on Apple that would justify such a loss. Yet, over the past few months, the stock has been breaking down in an ominous way, usually for no reason other than heavy…

I write quite a bit about Apple because it is a bellwether stock for the technology industry and the broader market, a defining company in the US equity market. Clearly, Apple is a money machine as it made over $40 billion in FY 2012 which…

Apple has been burned in the past because of patents. This is the reason Apple has been so assiduous in patenting everything it can. The company's zeal for patents is not just an offensive weapon to thwart the like of Samsung but also a…

I am still in vacation mode but I will start to post a lot more thematic content over the next two weeks. This post will concentrate on the mobile handset market and is based largely on a recent market analysis by Gartner. Earlier in the…

Editor's note: The daily post will not appear as regularly over the next week due to Edward's schedule. In addition, Edward may not post weekly or member posts during this time, However, he will try to get as much content out as he can…

This daily post is a day late but as I wrote on Friday, I found the IDC data estimate putting Android market share at 75% as an alarming warning sign for Apple. The problem is that Apple is a premium priced producer which makes relatively…

Earlier this week I noticed that Apple was able to wrest back some market share from Google in the mobile platform race. CNet showed Apple's iOS platform going from only 21.5% market share a year ago to 35.7% in the 12-week period through…

Today's links have three major themes. They are the continuing economic and political problems in Europe, the impact of the global growth slowdown on earnings and the escalating mobile war between Apple and Android. First on the European…

While I first started warning  about Android taking share from Apple in 2009, I was not worried about earnings at Apple. It wasn't until this year that margin compression became an issue for me. But even then, it wasn't clear the issue…

Apple's latest tablet, the much-anticipated iPad mini, is out and reactions are all over the web. The big news from the Apple presser is threefold: the iPad mini will retail starting at $329, the MacBook Pro line gets a retina display…