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To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Research In Motion's (RIM's) death have been greatly exaggerated. With a rethinking of the mobile experience in its BlackBerry 10 platform, just as Microsoft did with its Windows Phone two years ago, RIM has come up with a fresh approach to the mobile experience that will keep it in the mobile device game.
May. 2, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini
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Despite accounting for now more than $960 billion in market capitalization, the Four Horsemen of Mobility have divided into three groups: Amazon and Google are all making billions each year from mobile devices, Facebook is still trying to figure out how to get there, and Apple is making more money from mobility than all three combined.
Apr. 26, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe
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The TopicView Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts mobile vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Apr. 24, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Juan Felipe Urbina
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The TopicView Consumer Access spans fixed telephony, TV, VoIP, broadband and mobile services for 60 countries and 7 regions.
Apr. 3, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Declan Lonergan, Juan Felipe Urbina
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The Asia-Pacific Mobile Forecast comprises emerging markets with immense potential, and highly advanced mobile markets that are at the forefront of mobile data services.
Mar. 30, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, John Keough, Nick Holland
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The Global Consumer Forecast features top-line figures on global consumer spending that hide many differences among market segments and regions.
Mar. 30, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Declan Lonergan, Nick Holland, Juan Felipe Urbina
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The Yankee Group 2012 US Consumer Survey is a quarterly sampling of 4,000 consumers aged 13 and over that focuses on consumer behavior regarding mobile services, devices, and content. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers buy, as well as their planned activities and intentions around five major themes: connectivity services, customer satisfaction and experience, connected devices, mobile apps and content, and mobile transactions and activities.
Because each of the quarterly waves is fielded independently to different consumers, the 2012 US Consumer Survey amasses a total of 16,000 respondents throughout the year, making it one of the largest surveys of mobile consumer behavior in the U.S.
Mar. 30, 2012 | Survey | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Andres Elorza
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The North America Mobile Forecast includes users, ARPU and revenue summaries segmented by prepaid and postpaid; it also has voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Mar. 27, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Chris Marsh, John Keough, Nick Holland
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The North American Consumer Forecast provides an understanding of consumers in North America. It includes forecasts of consumer services (fixed, media and mobile).
Mar. 27, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Nick Holland, Juan Felipe Urbina
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The US Consumer Service Provider Monitor compares service providers in the U.S. that deliver consumer services across voice, data and TV categories, including satellite TV.
Mar. 21, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe
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The North America Mobile Carrier Monitor follows the fortunes of the largest carriers in the region. Data revenue is picking up just in time to preserve upward momentum in the industry.
Mar. 15, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The new iPad threatens to split the tablet market into a below-U.S.$399 and a U.S.$499 and above tier, with Apple dominating both markets. Competing tablet makers will have to focus more to survive, and even so, may cede most of the profits in both tiers to Apple. Meanwhile, the Apple TV update fell short of what Apple could be doing in television. It should be a warning shot to Internet TV companies: Apple wants to replay its ability to succeed with iPods and captive iTunes content in the video realm.
Mar. 8, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore
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U.S. smartphone adoption is expected to surge to 175 million devices by 2015, but even in a booming market, many mobile OS vendors have an uphill battle ahead....
February 14, 2012 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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Delivering Web content to PCs, tablets and smartphones isn't a write-once, display-anywhere process for high-traffic Web sites. Yankee Group, collaborating with Keynote Systems, finds that while the majority of the top 16 Web sites don't significantly tailor their Web content differently for tablets and smartphones, others have begun customizing the content they send to tablets to create new large-screen mobile experiences.
Jan. 24, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe
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Picking Thorsten Heins as CEO is a good start on the changes needed at Research In Motion (RIM), and it buys the company time. However, that's just the beginning of the effort to turn RIM around. RIM must also excite its customers by launching BlackBerry 10 products faster and courting developers with contests. Otherwise, its current downward trend will continue.
Jan. 23, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini
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The 2012 International CES had its fair share of new product rollouts--20,000, in fact. Looking back at the week, we find the devices, apps and technologies that garnered the most interest and enthusiasm were those with connectivity at their core. As connectivity increasingly becomes table stakes, however, all CE players must work to ensure new business models and network technologies are up to the challenge.
Jan. 20, 2012 | Report | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Vince Vittore, John Keough, Katie Lewis
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The TopicView Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Jan. 19, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The 2012 International CES in Las Vegas will bring 140,000 attendees, device makers, app developers, service providers and others together to see what the future looks like for consumer mobility. While devices such as tablets, ultrabooks and smartphones will get their fair share of attention, this year we expect to see the real innovations in the app and business model realms.
Jan. 6, 2012 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, John Keough, Katie Lewis
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The TopicView Consumer Access spans fixed-line, VoIP, broadband and mobile services for 55 countries and 7 regions.
Jan. 4, 2012 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain
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The Global Consumer Forecast features top-line figures on global consumer spending that hide many differences among market segments and regions.
Dec. 30, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain, Nick Holland
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The North America Consumer Forecast provides an understanding of consumers in North America. It includes forecasts of consumer services (fixed, media and mobile).
Dec. 29, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Vince Vittore, Nick Holland
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The North America Mobile Forecast includes users, ARPU and revenue summaries segmented by prepaid and postpaid; it also has voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Dec. 29, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Chris Marsh, John Keough, Nick Holland
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Yankee Group expects tablet sales in the U.S. to exceed $5.4 billion in 2012. But tablet manufacturers hoping to cash in on tablet mania must contend with one daunting challenge: Apple continues to dominate both the installed base of tablets and consumer buying intents. Amazon and Samsung are the only companies in position to challenge Apple in the next six months, but there's also opportunity in the large base of consumers who don't yet know which brand of tablet they'll buy.
Dec. 29, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe
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The North America ConnectedView Forecast contains all forecasts for consumers and enterprises across mobile and fixed-line spaces in one file, structured in a Technology view. Look out for the associated monitors in separate Excel files.
Dec. 28, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Vince Vittore, Eugene Signorini, Chris Marsh, John Keough, Nick Holland
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The collapse of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger has left everyone wondering how these two companies will survive the breakup. The separation agreement between the two companies gives cash and spectrum to T-Mobile while opening the possibilities of a joint operation agreement to AT&T. The result is better services and choice for consumers than the merger would have yielded--but it also means AT&T's challenge as a mobile broadband competitor just got a lot harder.
Dec. 21, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Ken Rehbehn
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The US Consumer Service Provider Monitor compares service providers in the US that deliver consumer services across voice, data and TV categories, including satellite TV.
Dec. 20, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore
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The North America Mobile Carrier Monitor follows the fortunes of the largest carriers in the region. Data revenue is picking up just in time to preserve upward momentum in the industry.
Dec. 19, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey is an online methodology of more than 15,020 consumers aged 13 and over that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Dec. 7, 2011 | Survey | by Carl Howe
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The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and the subject of this instability. During the last five years, networks and the information they carry have plugged more than 2 billion new participants into the mobile economy. The winners in this landscape will be those players that can scale quickly and treat each user as a unique customer.
Dec. 6, 2011 | Report | by Yankee Group | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Carl Howe, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Ken Rehbehn, Chris Marsh, Sheryl Kingstone, Wally Swain, John Keough, Nick Holland, Brian Partridge
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey is an online methodology of more than 12,530 consumers aged 13 and over that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Oct. 31, 2011 | Survey | by Carl Howe
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The Mobile Device Shipment Monitor & Forecast tracks wireless vendors and forecasts sell-in and sell-through of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components.
Oct. 21, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The TopicView Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Oct. 21, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The TopicView Consumer Access spans fixed-line, VoIP, broadband and mobile services for 55 countries and 7 regions.
Oct. 5, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain
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The Global Consumer Forecast contains all forecasts for all countries for services to consumers across fixed-line and mobile sectors. It also features separate Excel files containing monitors of the key players.
Sep. 30, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain, Nick Holland, Denise Lund
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App downloads in the U.S. are booming to the tune of 40 apps per user per year, according to Yankee Group's 2011 US Consumer Survey, but not all platforms are participating equally in the frenzy....
September 29, 2011 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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Amazon's new Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch aren't a frontal assault on the tablet market; rather, they are devices purpose-built to be hand-held Amazon content-buying machines. CEO Jeff Bezos claims the company will sell millions of them and he's right?Yankee Group estimates Amazon will sell roughly 2 million Fires in 2011. That's good, but it's not going to upend Apple's lead in tablets for the foreseeable future.
Sep. 29, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe
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The North America Mobile Forecast includes users, ARPU and revenue summaries segmented by prepaid and postpaid; it also has voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Sep. 28, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Chris Marsh, John Keough, Nick Holland, Denise Lund
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The North America Consumer Forecast contains forecasts of wireless and fixed-line retail consumer activity in the U.S. and Canada; this forecast now extends to 2015.
Sep. 28, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Vince Vittore, Nick Holland, Denise Lund
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The North America ConnectedView Forecast provides market data, including subscribers, contracts, technologies and handset sales through data applications, content provider revenue and consumer/business splits.
Sep. 28, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, Chris Marsh, John Keough, Nick Holland, Denise Lund
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Increasingly, the world of mobility is being shaped by the ecosystems around four brand-name companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. With combined market capitalization currently exceeding two-thirds of a trillion dollars for those four companies, Yankee Group recommends businesses align themselves with at least one of them or face being left behind in the mobility boom.
Sep. 26, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey is an online methodology of more than 11,270 consumers aged 13 and over that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Sep. 26, 2011 | Survey | by Carl Howe
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The North America Mobile Carrier Monitor tracks all the main wireless network operators in Canada and the U.S. through 2Q11, providing quarterly and normalized statistics.
Sep. 8, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe
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The US Consumer Service Provider Monitor provides detailed monitoring of IXCs and MSOs in the U.S.
Sep. 8, 2011 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore
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Android developers make much less money from paid apps than iPhone developers do. Recent data from a survey of 75 developers suggests that rampant piracy of Android apps may be the primary culprit. While better anti-piracy mechanisms from Google may help, Android developers should consider adopting business models beyond direct app sales.
Sep. 7, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey is an online methodology of more than 10,025 consumers aged 13 and over that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Sep. 1, 2011 | Survey | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Dmitriy Molchanov
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We just heard today that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit to block the ATT/T-Mobile merger....
August 31, 2011 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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With Sprint no longer on life support, its commitment to Android is raising interest in the platform among Sprint subscribers. In the coming war for subscribers between AT&T and Verizon, Sprint is shaping up to be the carrier for smartphone subscribers who want simplicity and just don't want to deal with tiered pricing.
Aug. 31, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe
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This is the second earthquake in a week. The only difference is that the aftershocks of today's announcement that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO will reverberate all week. I won't repeat what's in the press release....
August 25, 2011 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey, Mid-Year Analysis, Wave 1-6 is an online methodology of more than 7,400 consumers aged 13 and over in the U.S. that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Aug. 25, 2011 | Survey | by Dmitriy Molchanov | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe
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The Yankee Group 2011 US Consumer Survey, Mid-Year Analysis, Wave 1-6 is an online methodology of more than 7,400 consumers aged 13 and over in the U.S. that examines respondents' Connectivity Choices and Digital Experience. It investigates the connectivity and devices consumers have, as well as their planned activities and decisions around five core connectivity services: wireless broadband, mobile phone, pay TV, telephony and broadband. Additionally, it looks at the consumption of media empowered by these services, including video, music and gaming, as well as respondents' choices of channels and brands.
Aug. 24, 2011 | Survey | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Dmitriy Molchanov