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"Attempting to analyze Apple through the general mediocrity of the industry they're part of, is just not the way to look at Apple..."

  Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Norwegian resellers forced to halt Apple iPad pre-orders due to 'crazy interest'.

"Apple is facing the rare incident of an advance sellout this week as a number of Norwegian resellers have had to stop their pre-order programs for the iPad. Eplehuset (Apple House) has told its customers that 'crazy interest' has led it to stop sales in advance. Fellow Apple reseller Humac has also quietly pulled the iPad, as it still has a category but no longer has active product pages," Electronista reports.

"It's believed that the sites took thousands of advance orders for the touchscreen device and that, unusually, the largest portion of orders skew heavily towards the more expensive 64GB iPad with 3G," Electronista reports 2:53:09 PM    


Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study.

A strong holiday quarter helped to grow Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market by 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving the iPhone a 25.3 percent share of users, according to a new report. 2:42:18 PM    


Disney CEO says iPad is game changer

NEW YORK (AFP) - Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday that Apple's new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a "game changer" for the entertainment and media industry.

"We find that the iPad has a lot of potential," Iger said in a conference call after Disney announced a first-quarter net profit of 844 million dollars, virtually unchanged from a year ago.

"It could be a game changer in terms of enabling us to create essentially new forms of content," Iger said. "It will be a great device to play games and watch videos because of the quality of the screen. 2:37:03 PM