Reuters: Apple takes smartphone top spot from Google in U.S. - research

Apple takes smartphone top spot from Google in U.S. - research | Reuters

Soaring iPhone 5 Sales in US knock Android into second place

News - Soaring iPhone 5 sales in US knock Android into second place - Kantar Worldpanel

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Enterprises buying iPhones 'in droves': Here's the tipping point

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Microsoft's data proves it: We're obsessed with iPhone

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Will Amazon's bet on the Kindle Fire ever pay off?

When you're selling a device at cost you can't really make it up in volume

"We want to make money when people use our devices," CEOJeff Bezos often says, in a remark widely seen as directed at Apple (AAPL), "not when they buy our devices."

So how has that worked out for Bezos?

Not terribly well, judging from early results this holiday season. According to IBM's (IBM) Benchmark survey of Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales, Kindles accounted for only 2.4% of purchases made via tablet, fewer than those made by Barnes and Noble's (BKS) Nook (3.1%) and way fewer than the iPad (88.3%).

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Facebook and iTunes/iPhone (video)

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Apple's iPad driving e-commerce as market shifts from desktop-based purchases

"Despite the relatively low-performing form factor introduced seen in the 7-inch Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, Heinemann said the comparably-sized iPad mini will become a major player in not only driving e-commerce conversion rates, but changing the way retailers format their digital storefronts.
Although there isn't enough data to offer conclusive evidence of what impact the mini will have on internet-based sales, Heinemann believes the tablet will begin to affect the market in early 2013, and could see performance surpassing that of the full-sized iPad."

"The impact is going to be massive in terms of website design," he said of Apple's new small form factor iPad.

Apple's installed user base, plus the wider market penetration of the iPad brand will likely push retailers to create sites tailored to the mini and work up from there.

"I think what you're going to see is the iPad mini becoming almost a standard design format, because if you can design for the iPad mini, it's going to work on the [full size] iPad, it's going to work on the desktop," Heinemann said. "So instead of taking the desktop and working it down to the iPad mini , think about taking your iPad mini experience and working it up to the desktop. It's going to be that important."

Apple's iPad driving e-commerce as market shifts from desktop-based purchases