NEW YORK - consumption reports financial results this week technology companies are looking as rowboats was waving in the wake of supertanker Apple Inc..
Close to oblivion in 1997, Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world, after Exxon Mobil Corp.. On 20 April, it said income net of 5.99 billion for the period from January to March, almost double that of a year ago. It shipped a record iPhone of 18.65 million during the quarter. Its iPad tablet computers are so popular, the company could not do enough.
The rise of Apple produced several losers and some winners, as pointed out in the last two weeks:
? Microsoft Corp.: loser.
Apple has replaced Microsoft as most valuable technology in the world a year ago. In its report mid-fall, it surpassed Microsoft in quarterly revenue. In the period January-March this year, it surpassed Microsoft in net income, too.
On Thursday, Microsoft reported that revenues from the Windows operating system has decreased for the second quarter of right, because people buy less Windows computers.
Some potential buyers go to Mac - Apple reported that it has sold more than 28 percent units. Others will iPads. Goldman Sachs believes now that more than 30 per cent of iPads sold can replace PC sales. In the 1990s, the trend was the contrary, as Windows PC were collected by Macs.
? Nokia Corp.: loser.
Nokia said this week that it will slash 7,000 jobs through updates layoffs and outsourcing. It sells phones even more than anyone, but it is losing share to Apple, especially when it comes to smartphones.
Research firm Strategy Analytics said revenue from the sale of Apple iPhone exceeds that of Nokia phones, in the period from January to March as the iPhone is much more expensive that mean Nokia phone. What does Apple biggest phone maker more than by income.
To better compete with the iPhone, Nokia is ditching its old software for Symbian and Windows Phone 7 of Microsoft. But the transition will take time. the first Nokia phones powered by Windows does are not expected before late 2011 or 2012 at the beginning.
? Research In Motion Ltd.: loser.
The manufacturer of BlackBerry is in a similar situation of Nokia. RIM warned Thursday that the income, net income and unit sales for the quarter ending in May will be below its previous forecast.
High range of the company phones look old compared with the iPhone and those running the Android from Google Inc. software. They are not selling as well as expected.
RIM promised investors that the new phones with the redesigned software will bring sales force in the second half of the year, but investors are sceptical, sending stock RIM down Friday.
? HTC Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola mobility Holdings Inc.: winners, indirectly.
Although the three companies compete with the Apple iPhone, they are doing well. Nokia and RIM, the three are betting on Google's Android system, which comes closest to mimic the appearance and functions of the iPhone.
Motorola mobility is the shadow of former Motorola, once the second world phones manufacturer. But focuses on Android-powered smartphones shows signs of success. It reported Thursday a near doubling of sales of smartphone in the first quarter.
HTC's Taiwan made of smartphones for a decade, and sales are really taking off with the help of Android. Friday, it reported 9.7 million in the first quarter from the sale.
Samsung South Korea, smartphone sales, were a bright spot in the first quarter as decreased overall sales of telephone and other electronic equipment were low. The company is involved in disputes with Apple.
? Verizon Wireless: winner.
The cell phone carrier No. 1 American has posted a jump in new customers from signing the contract - the most profitable kind - after she presented his version of the iPhone on 10 February, which ended the exclusive grip AT & T Inc. on the device to the United States.
(Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. of New York and Vodafone Group PLC of Britain).
? AT & T and Sprint Nextel Corp.: mixed.
New subscribers Verizon came over AT & T and Sprint Nextel Corp.. But neither the carrier saw signs of existing clients moving to Verizon for the good of the iPhone. It seems rather customers weighing between carriers were more likely to go to Verizon due to the iPhone.
AT & T seems to be splitting new iPhone uniformly with Verizon Wireless customers.
Sprint customers lucrative contract lost in the quarter, but continued his long u-turn by signing a number of persons on contract free plans, less expensive.
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