Report: 2/3 of top U.S. carrier sales in Q1 were
iPhones

post from Apple on 03 May 2012 10:03:15 AM. © Apple

A new report from analysts at Wireless Intelligence shows that Apple’s iPhone is continuing to gain market share in U.S. smartphones sales.

The report, issued Thursday, looks at sales information reported by the largest U.S. carriers and determined that during the first three months of 2012, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint collectively sold 9 million iPhones. Altogether, those same three carriers sold 13.5 million smartphones, which means that for every three smartphones they sold, two of them were iPhones.

These figures don’t match up with a recent survey done by NPD that shows Android smartphones account for about 61 percent of all smartphones in the U.S while iPhones account for 29 percent.

But they do match up with what carriers reported earlier this quarter. AT&T is riding the iPhone wave specifically when it comes to smartphones sales — 4.3 million of the 5.5 million smartphones it sold during the first quarter of the year were made by Apple. Verizon reported somewhat lower numbers: 3.2 million iPhones, but that was about half of all of its smartphone sales for the quarter. Sprint, the newest iPhone carrier in the U.S. sold 1.5 million iPhones, which was about 76 percent of all smartphones during the quarter, according to Wireless Intelligence.

For all three of these operators, their number of iPhone sales are lower in the first three months of 2012 than they were in the last three months of 2011. The fourth quarter of 2011 was notable though because it included both the launch of the iPhone 4S as well as the holiday shopping period.

So while overall numbers of iPhones weren’t as high for the first quarter as they were for the last, these numbers show that the iPhone is still the most important device that these carriers are selling when it comes to retaining and recruiting customers.

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Marketing Your App Launches Free All-In-One Tool
to Promote iOS Apps

post from prMac on 03 May 2012 10:00:00 AM. © prMac

Marketing Your App today announces the launch of MYA Tools, its new integrated suite of online app marketing tools, helping mobile developers easily promote their iPhone and iPad apps to get more exposure, new customers, and increased sales. The online platform, available for free on the company's website, gives developers quick access to tools including: a "done for you" website, promo code dispenser, social media posting, app review website submitter, App Store optimization, and more.

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LazyTown and Castle Builders reinvent the
ultimate digital book for kids

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LazyTown Entertainment has partnered with the Israel based company Castle Builders (IL) to launch LazyTown Friends Forever, the follow-up to the bestselling LazyTown BooClips that reached the 1st place on the Top Books Free iPad Apps charts on the US Appstore. LazyTown's Friends Forever interactive storybook features videos on every page, interactive animations, puzzles, coloring pages and synced narration of the story, based around heroine Stephanie creating a new playground for her friends.

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Learning Chinese is a blast for kids & parents
with 123 Chinese for iPad

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Belgium based 123-Kids today announces the release of 123 Chinese for all iPad devices. A new language learning utility geared towards young children, 123 Chinese gives kids an opportunity to learn how to read, write, and pronounce basic Chinese words. Colorful flashcards, illustrations, guides, and audio elements included in the app make learning a blast while concise categories focus user's attention to specific subjects.

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Graphic Node Releases 10 New Themes for iBooks
Author

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Graphic Node today updated its selection of Themes for iBooks Author with 10 new designs. The full package of 80 smartly structured, elegant themes for Apple's book creation app offers its users a broad scope of possibilities to turn their ideas into standout e-books. Each theme includes the full range of standard layouts provided in iBooks Author. There is also an option to insert and generate shapes, tables or charts that are already colored and matched with the selected template style.

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Folder Factory - New App for Changing Folder
Icons on Mac OS X

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Appsoft Studio today releases Folder Factory 1.0, a simple, yet powerful app for changing folders' design on Mac OS X. The new app enables users to enhance their folder icons and provides quite a few benefits. Exceptional folders created with Folder Factory are easier to find in various locations and it saves time, decorating the working environment at the same time. Possibilities of attaching pictures, applying colors and adjusting their intensity are the main features of the application.

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AirBeam Pro enables HD video surveillance with
Mac, iPhone and iPad

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Appologics has ported AirBeam, their unique App for video surveillance on iOS, to the Mac. AirBeam Pro streams live video and audio in HD quality from the Mac's camera and microphone across a WiFi or 3G network. The stream can be followed with a web browser or with iPhones, iPods or iPads. AirBeam works also vice versa: iDevices can be used as remote cameras and watched with the Mac App. AirBeam's applications are countless and range from a luxury baby monitor towards serious surveillance.

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Woven Photo Viewing App Launches on Apple iPhone

Boston-based Litl today announces Woven 1.3, an update to its popular photo viewing app for iOS devices. Woven creates a simple way to relive special memories while browsing photos from Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Instagram, and other online photo services while both online and on-the-go. After users link the app to their online photo-sharing sites, they can effortlessly glide through their photos in a single, consolidated photo album. Version 1.3 offers improved stability.

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With Hip Hop Triton, making music has never been
so easy

Madrid-based Triton Studio introduces Hip Hop Triton 1.0, their new music app developed specifically for the iPad. Hip Hop Triton turns your iPad into an easily manageable professional studio which you can use to make your own music and share it with friends and family through email, Facebook or Twitter. Hip Hop Triton provides six audio tracks. Grouped in 5 categories, choose from a built in collection of over 400 professional quality sounds to cook up your theme.

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Tealbit AB releases the unique trivia quiz game
Year Trivia for iPhone

Tealbit today introduces Year Trivia 1.0, its unique, fun new trivia quiz game for iOS devices. In Year Trivia, players place historical events on a timeline. The player spins a wheel of categories to get the event/question, which belongs to one of the categories History, Arts & Entertainment, Science, Sports and Mixed. Apart from a unique game concept, Year Trivia also features online gaming via Game Center, nice graphical content and great background music and sound effects.

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