Thursday, February 23, 2012

No iPhone leads 700,000 customers to flee T-Moblie


  • T-mobile is the only cell phone carrier that does not have the iPhone, and that hurts 
  • Because of this it was the only national carrier to lose customers last quarter.
  • All along 2011 T-mobile was shredding contracts, though towards the end it slowed
  • Once Sprint came out with the iPhone and the iPhone 4s came out T-Mobile had no chance
  • T-Mobile wants to get the iPhone chipset does not support that band. 
  • T-Mobile has 25 million subscribers and Verizon has 87 million
  • I think this might be one of the reasons they brought that cute girl in the commercials, to get people's attention
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

The white MacBook is dead -- for real this time


  • Apple has notified resellers that it will no longer be available to schools and other such places
  • This device was killed July off of last year
  • It will be available for six more months then after no longer
  • This is the end of the iBook series 
  • It's unclear of the true reason why it is ending
  • this is happened before and when it did there was a new product that came out

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Amazon earnings OK, but stock slides 10%


  • Last quarter for Amazon was not a terrible on, but also not a great one.
  • It earned up to $177 million, this equals to 38 cents per share for the holiday quarter
  • The revenue that Amazon had gotten was $17.4 this was short of their $18.3 billion that analysts expected
  • This caused a 9% lowering of trading this Tuesday
  • For this quarter, the company expects to gross between $12-$13.4 billion dollar
  • What 's bringing in most of this revenue is The Kindle Fire
  • Amazon hopes that with it's low price it will bring in more buyers