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PC Sales Expected to Decline for First Time Since 2001
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 9:08am | 603Read More...After 11 years of growth, sales of PCs -- including notebooks, netbooks and desktops -- are expected to decline. This revelation comes from three different researchers. In a report by IHS (NYSE: IHS) iSuppli, the researcher showed that worldwide PC shipments will contract this year by 1.2 percent...
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iPhone 5 Markup Tops 300%
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 9:09am | 400Read More...Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) next-generation iPhone is one very expensive device. In its initial teardown of the iPhone 5's hardware and manufacturing expenses, iSuppli, a division of IHS (NYSE: IHS) -- an information and analytics provider -- discovered that the device carries a bill of materials (BOM...
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Apple TV with Retina Display Would Cost $25,000
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 2:51pm | 884Read More...After Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) unveiled the next-gen MacBook Pro, which includes the world's first 15-inch Retina Display, techies began to fantasize about the beauty of an even larger screen. The 17-inch MacBook Pro may be dead, but Apple still produces the iMac, whose screen comes in two sizes: 21.5...
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Is the iPhone 4S Cannibalizing the iPad 2?
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 2:24pm | 536Read More...Apple's toughest competition in 4Q 2011 was Apple, iSuppli claims. The IHS (NYSE: IHS) research firm has released a report (via Barron's) on the tablet market, revealing that Apple may have actually cannibalized sales of the iPad 2 with the release of the iPhone 4S. This might explain why the...
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Apple's iPad Making Its Mark, 2nd Generation Expected In Early 2011
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:24am | 157Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having its iPad make headlines for cutting Best Buy's (NYSE: BBY) notebook PC sales in half, and also that Apple is gearing up (already) for the iPad's second generation launch, Oppenheimer reports. Estimates from Best Buy have seen Apple's tablet drop notebook PC sales...
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Google's Android to Pass iPhone Worldwide by 2012: iSuppli (GOOG, AAPL)
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 3:30pm | 148Read More...Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android software, its mobile operating system, will outpace Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in number of phones in use worldwide by 2012, according to researcher iSuppli Corp. Android will be on 75 million smartphones in the next two years, giving the platform almost...
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How Much Does It Cost To Make iPhone 4 (AAPL)
Monday, June 28, 2010 - 11:54am | 114Read More...iSuppli has concluded from their research that it costs $188 to manufacture one iPhone 4. The estimate is very low and explains how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is able to benefit from economies of scale and make large margins on low cost products. Apple is able to get a Gyroscope chip at $2.60, which...
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Apple (AAPL) iPad Costs Just $260 To Manufacture
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 4:16pm | 121Read More...A report released by iSuppli claims that the lowest priced iPad from Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) costs just $260 to manufacture. An earlier report by iSuppli put the manufacturing cost of the iPad at $230 for the cheapest model that retails for $499. However, iSuppli conducted another teardown of the...
