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5m HTC One sales tips exec with demand still exceeding supply
HTC has sold approximately five million of its HTC One flagship smartphones, an executive at the company has confirmed, with demand for the phone still apparently outstripping supply. The sales statistics – which HTC is yet to officially endorse – come amid concerns that the company is losing key executives and struggling to raise the profile of the One against the Samsung Galaxy S 4. Despite the fears, an unnamed HTC executive tells the WSJ, sales have in fact been strong.
As HTC has complained about before, it’s getting sufficient stock that is primarily holding the One back, the executive continues. “Orders are pretty good so far and are still more than what we can supply” the source suggests. “This is partly due to the shortage of components. When the issue is resolved next month, we will have a better idea if it’s doing really well or not.”
Production is set to double this month HTC has already claimed, and April sales figures showed a reassuring upward turn, believed to be primarily down to One performance. The phone was originally intended to release in eighty countries by the end of Q1 2013, but issues sourcing components for the “UltraPixel” camera, among other things, saw that limited to just a handful of locations.
That hasn’t stopped HTC from making bold predictions for Q2. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to reach around NT$ 70bn ($ 2.4bn), the company has said, an increase of almost a billion US dollars.
Still, the 5m figure pales somewhat compared to Samsung’s sales figures for its Galaxy S 4. Earlier today, Samsung confirmed that 10m of the latest Galaxy flagships had been sold – though it’s worth noting that Samsung’s numbers count sales to operators and retailers, not to end-users – in the first month of the device’s availability.
Meanwhile, the other phone HTC had high hopes for, the HTC First, has not seen the success expected. Sales are said to have underwhelmed, and sources have even claimed that the First – which runs Facebook Home, a replacement Android launcher focused on information from the social network – was scuppered by Facebook itself, after a last-minute change in strategy that saw the launcher released free in the Google Play market in the same week that the smartphone arrived on AT&T.
5m HTC One sales tips exec with demand still exceeding supply is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apple Store revenue hits record high, still outpaces competition
If you had any doubts that Apple‘s retail business might be slowing down, it seems the latest numbers may correct any pessimism you had built up. The company raked in record revenues for its retail stores, averaging out to $ 57.60 spent per person on average, which is up from $ 51.75 per person during the same time last year.
According to Asymco mobile analyst Horace Dediu, Apple retail numbers went up across the board for this past quarter, with a 7% rise in the number of visitors compared to last year, as well as the average revenue per Apple store reaching $ 13 million for the quarter, which is Apple’s highest non-holiday quarter ever for its retail business.
As for the number of visitors on average, Apple ended up attracting 250,000 people per store per quarter over the last year, which is a fairly generous rise from 170,000 visitors three years ago. Dediu thinks that the rise in visitors is mostly due to the addition of larger stores, as well as renovations in older locations.
Overall, when compared to other top retail chains, Apple is doing twice as well as Tiffany & Company, who comes in second place as far as average sales per square feet, with Lululemon coming in third. Apple is currently doing three times as well as Lululemon. It’s not sure how long Apple will keep its first place retail spot, but their lead is good enough that they could keep it for quite some time.
In total, Apple Stores brought in a whopping $ 6.4 billion in revenue during the company’s fiscal Q1 2013, with average of over $ 16 million per store. Total number of visitors for the quarter was 121 million, which was up from 110 million during the same quarter a year ago. That’s certainly a lot to write home about, and we’ll see if Apple can keep this up and for how long.
VIA: CNET
SOURCE: Asymco
Apple Store revenue hits record high, still outpaces competition is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Xbox 360 sales dropping drastically, still remains top-selling console
Microsoft may be prepping to unveil it’s next-generation Xbox next week, but the Xbox 360 is still going on strong. Keeping up with its staggering consistency, the Xbox 360 has remained at the top of the best-selling consoles list for the month of April in the US selling 130,000 units throughout the month and capturing a 42% market share during April.
However, 130,000 units is a far cry from March and February, when Microsoft sold 261,000 and 302,000 consoles, respectively. Total revenue brought in for the Xbox 360, including hardware, games, and accessories, adds up to $ 208 million, which is also more than any other gaming console for the month of April. However, its more than half of what Xbox 360 sales were a month previous, when March brought in $ 402 million.
During April, the Xbox 360 also held six out of the top 10 console games, which include NBA 2K13, Dead Island: Riptide, BioShock Infinite, Defiance, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. NBA 2K13, BioShock Infinite, and Call of Duty: Black Ops II were also on the list during March.
The steep drop in sales could be a result of the impending announcement of the so-called Xbox 720, which Microsoft will unveil on May 21. However, the console most likely won’t actually release to the public until later this year in the fall, meaning that if sales are slipping already, it’s going to be a long summer for Microsoft and its Xbox 360.
As for the latest gaming console that has hit the public pipeline (the Wii U), sales aren’t doing so well either. The console has missed Nintendo’s expectations, and it seems many developers and publishers are beginning to rethink their strategy to makes games for the new console, including EA, who has said that they don’t have anything in the making for the Wii U, which could potentially hurt the console even more.
SOURCE: Official Microsoft Blog
Xbox 360 sales dropping drastically, still remains top-selling console is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google+ seemingly still a ghost town; brands continue to prefer Facebook, Twitter
Google abandons plans for physical credit card, still preps Google Wallet update for I/O
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HTC still won’t say if the One is ever coming to Verizon
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Poll Finds Majority Still OK With ‘Redskins’ Name
A new Associated Press poll shows that nationally, “Redskins” still enjoys wide support. Nearly four in five Americans don’t think the team should change its name, the survey found. Only 11 percent think it should be changed, while 8 percent weren’t sure and 2 percent didn’t answer.
Although 79 percent favor keeping the name, that does represent a 10 percentage point drop from the last national poll on the subject, conducted in 1992 by The Washington Post and ABC News just before the team won its most recent Super Bowl. Then, 89 percent said the name should not be changed, and 7 percent said it should.
The AP-GfK poll was conducted from April 11-15. It included interviews with 1,004 adults on both land lines and cellphones. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Several poll respondents told The AP that they did not consider the name offensive and cited tradition in arguing that it shouldn’t change.
“That’s who they’ve been forever. That’s who they’re known as,” said Sarah Lee, a 36-year-old stay-at-home mom from Osceola, Ind. “I think we as a people make race out to be a bigger issue than it is.”
But those who think the name should be changed say the word is obviously derogatory.
“With everything that Native Americans have gone through in this country, to have a sports team named the Redskins — come on, now. It’s bad,” said Pamela Rogal, 56, a writer from Boston. “Much farther down the road, we’re going to look back on this and say, `Are you serious? Did they really call them the Washington Redskins?’ It’s a no-brainer.”
iPhone 5S may still launch this summer, according to leaked document
It looks like iPhone fans may not have to wait until the fall to get their hands on the new iPhone 5S after all. French blog Nowhereelse.fr has published a leaked document from Japanese carrier KDDI showing that preorders for the iPhone 5S will start on June 20th with a release date expected for sometime in July. Of course, this could just be a placeholder date that the carrier has put down to coincide with Apple’s annual WWDC event in June, so there’s a good chance that the new smartphone still won’t launch until September. According to earlier rumors, Apple has been having trouble implementing new fingerprint sensor technology in the iPhone 5S, which could result in its release getting pushed back to September.
iTunes still dominates market for video downloads
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Niners Still With Interest In FA CB Charles Woodson
The 49ers are still showing interest in former Packers and Raiders CB Charles Woodson, who was released by the Packers earlier this offseason.
Woodson visited the team in March but didn’t get a contract offer.
Matt Maiocco of Bay Area News Group reports that 49ers GM Trent Balke said the 49ers still have interest in the 36 year old defensive back.
“We feel he can still play the game. That’s something we’re going to continue to look, Balke said per the Associated Press.
