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Apple’s ‘disappointing’ holiday quarter compared to other companies

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 8, 2016

When Apple announced the results for its 2012 holiday quarter, the reaction from Wall Street was extremely negative. Despite selling a record 48 million iPhones, and recording a record $54.5 billion in revenue, the company's stock dropped more than 10% following the news.

A lot of folks have tried to explain the phenomenon—investors are worried about its slowing growth, or its ability to handle stronger competition from the likes of Google and Samsung. But the truth is, Apple is performing better than it ever has, and better than everyone else...

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Pod2g shares more evasi0n stats: 40 million page views, 20% from China

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

We've been keeping close tabs on the popularity of the evasi0n jailbreak since it was released on Monday. Within the first 10 minutes, it saw over 100,000 downloads. And yesterday morning, Saurik said that it had crossed the 1.7 million mark.

Today, pod2g shares even more interesting stats on the jailbreak, noting that the evasi0n website has seen more than 5 million unique visitors, and 40 million page views in the last few days. Here's a breakdown of all of that traffic by country...

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evasi0n sees over 100,000 downloads in first 10 minutes

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 25, 2013

About 20 minutes ago, the moment everyone has been waiting for finally arrived: the evad3rs released their untethered iOS 6 jailbreak called 'evasi0n.' Now, everyone with a device running iOS 6 or higher (except for the ATV) can jailbreak their devices.

And it seems like everyone wants to. Unless you got in within the first few minutes, you probably received the above error when trying to download the evasi0n utility. That's because there's over 270,000 people trying to access the site right now...

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Infographic shows where Apple spends its money

Cody Lee ∙ Updated October 31, 2018

Despite the fact that investors have begun to worry about Apple's future, the company is still one of the wealthiest in the world. The iPad-maker added another $13 billion to its cash pile last quarter, bringing the total to $137 billion.

And that number will only continue to grow, because Apple doesn't really spend much money. Maybe a few billion on research and development, and another couple on data centers and other facilities. But not enough to make a dent...

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Over 300 million devices now on iOS 6 and above

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 10, 2018

In addition to seeding the public version of iOS 6.1 this morning, Apple also published a press release announcing a number of interesting stats and milestones. The most notable landmark is that there are now more than 300 million users on iOS 6.0 and above.

That's pretty wild, considering that last week the company said there are now more than 500 million iOS devices in the wild. That's well over a 50% take rate in less than 6 months, which certainly bodes well for app developers. Keep reading for more details...

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Over 20 million iOS devices seen running Cydia in past 2 months

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 25, 2013

TechCrunch has published a lengthy article today entitled "Behind The Scenes of The iPhone 5 Jailbreak." The piece takes a look back at all of the jailbreaks that have been released over the years, as well as at the work being done on the current jailbreak.

While the report doesn't offer any new information regarding the progress of the iOS 6 JB, it does have a couple of interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout its contents. One of them, for example, is the number of devices that are currently running Cydia...

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Temple Run 2 sees 20 million iOS downloads in 4 days

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 18, 2018

Last week Imangi Studios released a sequel to its widely popular endless-runner game, Temple Run. The game landed here in the US on Thursday night, and within 8 hours it had shot up to the #1 Free App in the App Store.

But apparently its impressive run didn't stop there. Imangi issued a press release this morning announcing that Temple Run 2 was downloaded more than 20 million times, on iOS alone, in its first four days of availability...

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Instagram says it has 90M monthly active users, releases other stats

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 17, 2013

Facebook-owned photo sharing service Instagram today for the first time revealed some hard numbers on its performance and user base. Instagram has passed 90 million monthly active users, which is a huge number for any casual photo sharing service, no matter how you look at it. The company also confirmed that it is serving 40 million photographs each day, averaging to a little more than two photos per user shared each day. Wondering about how many likes and comments people post each day?

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Nearly 50% of Verizon’s data traffic travels over LTE

Cody Lee ∙ January 11, 2013
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Although LTE may not be available in some corners around the world yet, it's certainly taken the US by storm. Three out of our four largest carriers have live LTE networks, and the fourth one, T-Mobile, will have one up shortly.

In fact, Verizon, who was first to market with LTE technology back in 2010, has its 4G network lit up in close to 500 markets. And the company says that it's now seeing nearly 50 percent of its data load travel over that network...

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Nielsen publishes list of top 10 iPhone apps for 2012

Cody Lee ∙ December 21, 2012

Nielsen, a highly regarded information and measurement firm, released its "Digital Tops of 2012" lists yesterday, which included topics like the top 10 Internet brands, and the top 10 iOS apps for the year.

The apps were picked based on average unique users from Q1 of 2012 to Q3, and as you might have guessed, four of the top 10 chosen are (were) native iOS apps like Maps and YouTube. We've got the full list after the fold...

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15 interesting points from today’s earnings call

Cody Lee ∙ July 24, 2012

Apple just announced its financial results for Q3 2012, and is now finishing up its earnings call. As promised, we've collected a list of some of the more interesting bits from the call to pass on to you.

Among the list, is the fact that Apple added $7 billion to its growing cash pile last quarter, bringing its cash total to more than $117 billion. Also, there are now 410 million iOS devices in the wild...

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