Wang Shangkun, Chinese Teen Who Sold Kidney To Buy iPad, Too Weak To … – Huffington Post

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Wang Shangkun, Chinese Teen Who Sold Kidney To Buy iPad, Too Weak To …Huffington PostA teenage boy who sold his kidney to buy Apple products was too weak to attend the trial of the group who allegedly harvested his organ last year, the state-run China Daily reports. In April 2011, Wang […]

Apple’s iPhone Sales Were Weak Because The Chinese And Big Businesses … – ZDNet

ZDNet Apple’s iPhone Sales Were Weak Because The Chinese And Big Businesses …ZDNetPeople forget that Apple hugely ramped up iPhone sales in China at the beginning of the year. It launched the iPhone 4S at Apple Stores in Beijing and Shanghai in January. January/February is when Chinese New Year occurs, when workers get their annual […]

iPad purchases have little to do with weak consumer PC market: NPD – The Independent

DailyTech iPad purchases have little to do with weak consumer PC market: NPDThe IndependentA very small percentage of consumers are abandoning PC purchases for Apple’s iPad said market research company NPD in its recent Apple iPad Owner Study II report. “The conventional wisdom that says tablet sales are eating into low-priced notebooks is …iPad’s Popularity […]

NPD: Don’t blame iPad for weak PC market – CNET

Macworld UK NPD: Don’t blame iPad for weak PC marketCNETThough the consumer PC market may be in the doldrums, you can’t pin the blame on the iPad, at least according to the folks at research firm NPD Group. Many analysts have attributed the latest slump in portable PC sales to …iPad cannibalization talk crazy, says […]

AT&T iPhone activations up 33%, unaffected by Verizon, but 3G tablets prove weak – Apple Insider

AT&T iPhone activations up 33%, unaffected by Verizon, but 3G tablets prove weakApple InsideriPhone activations increased by a million in the first quarter of 2011, with 23 percent of those subscribers new to AT&T. iPhone subscriber churn, or customer turnover, was unchanged from a year ago. The numbers suggest that the immediate impact of the […]