Paid apps are history
This week marked an important moment in the evolution of the iOS app market. As Pages just slipped out of the iPad top 10 highest grossing …
Tero Kuittinen
After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently an analyst and VP of North American sales at mobile diagnostics and expense management Alekstra, and has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
Articles by Tero Kuittinen
The aggressively priced Lumia 620 is Nokia’s make or break model
Nokia (NOK) has started pricing the Lumia 620 in Asia nearly 20% below the rival Windows mid-market model, the HTC (2498) 8S. This is remarkably …
Will Europe’s nose dive in consumer spending crush smartphone sales as well?
There are new signs of European consumer spending finishing the year 2012 on a very weak note. Could this mean that consumer electronics sales from …
The most important question for Apple: How did the 64GB iPhone 5 sell?
A year ago, Apple (AAPL) managed to avoid iPhone price erosion by selling a massive number of 64GB versions of its new model at $850. …
As Apple’s share price plummets, HTC surges
Apple (AAPL) has hit a seriously rough patch over the past few months in terms of investor sentiment. Fears over margin impact of a hypothetical …
The strange math of Apple’s alleged massive iPhone 5 order cuts
The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple (AAPL) had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite …
Rovio has more monthly active users than Twitter
Rovio announced today it hit 263 million monthly active users in December 2012. This happened precisely three years after the first Angry Birds game debuted …
A sense of dread shrouds Nintendo’s Wii U
The latest Wii U sales numbers are out from Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom — and unease is deepening. In Japan, Famitsu …
Nokia sold 14 million smartphones in Q4… if you reclassify Asha phones
Nokia (NOK) just issued a positive fourth-quarter warning in Helsinki, stating that the Mobile Phones unit and Lumia phones beat company expectations. The reported Lumia …
An iPhone priced below $200 would devastate RIM and Nokia – and Apple’s margins
Both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal now believe Apple (AAPL) is seriously considering launching a cheap iPhone. Speculation about this has been going on …
Verizon narrows AT&T’s smartphone lead
Earlier this week, AT&T (T) announced it had activated 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, up from 9.4 million in the same …
AT&T’s ominous smartphone slow-down
This morning, AT&T (T) announced with pomp and circumstance that it sold 10 million new smartphones during the fourth quarter last year. It’s a new …
HTC actually had a pretty awesome December
HTC (2498) announced dismal fourth-quarter 2012 numbers on Monday and it resulted in a lot of gloomy coverage. Lowest quarterly profit in half a decade, …
Android’s explosive content consumption growth threatens Apple
Smartphone market share surveys from IDC and Kantar have shown for a long time that the Android phone volume surge is leaving the iPhone in …
Motorola’s road to oblivion
Two years ago, comScore pegged Motorola’s share of United States smartphome subscribers as 17%, down 1.8 percentage points in three months. That slide has pretty …
Amazon is gutting Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble (BKS) warned about the Christmas quarter a while back, so we knew things were heading south. Yet the numbers still have the …
Typical American without a landline: A 27-year old Latino living in Columbus, Ohio
The statistical study compiled by NHIS about landline and mobile phone usage in American households is a pretty fascinating read. The number of U.S. adults with …
Nokia’s Lumia 920 remains as expensive as Apple’s iPhone 5
One thing handset industry analysts are watching like hawks is the price graph of the most important Windows Phone 8 model in the European handset …
Ancient apps crush newbies on iPhone – 8 out of top-10 franchises are more than a year old
Many people still think the iPhone app market is a chaotic melee where hits are created and then vanish in an unpredictable way. In some …
Christmas SMS volume growth shocks industry watchers
Despite the massive popularity of Facebook (FB), WhatsApp and other alternative messaging methods, preliminary global SMS volume figures for Christmas show surprising vigor in 2012. …
Nintendo’s Wii U wobbles as sales sink
According to Famitsu, Nintendo’s (NTDOY) portable 3DS console continued to see huge success during the week ahead of Christmas. It racked up sales of 433,000 …
iOS apps see Christmas sales spike shrink in 2012
Distimo just released its statistics on Christmas Day app downloads and revenue growth… and the download spike is far smaller than it was last year. …
Instagram gains users in December despite recent uproar as Zynga gets pecked to death by rivals
Zynga (ZNGA), the Facebook (FB) app behemoth, still reigns supreme on its most important platform. But the erosion of its dominant position continues as smaller rivals keep …
Lack of low-end BlackBerry 10 phone could be a serious stumbling block in RIM comeback bid
South Africa is one of Research In Motion’s (RIMM) top five markets in the world, and it is a decent proxy for the entire African …
iPad is a Christmas graveyard for ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and ‘Modern Combat’
At the beginning of December, the traditional video game industry attempted another iPad invasion. New versions of “Grand Theft Auto,” “Modern Combat” and “Baldur’s Gate” …
Nokia Lumia 920’s fascinating Christmas sets stage for battle with BlackBerry 10
The Chinese version of Nokia’s (NOK) new flagship Windows Phone model recently debuted in Shanghai. According to pictures posted to Chinese websites, the Lumia 920T …
Windows already threatening iPhone in Southern Europe
Kantar Worldpanel’s report for November came out and much has been made of the iPhone market share surge in the United States. What I find interesting …
This subscriber loss may haunt RIM in coming months
RIM’s (RIMM) share price popped by 8% soon after it released its earnings, buoyed by positive sales and earnings surprises. The fact that RIM managed …
Finnish vendors had 4 of the top 10 highest-grossing iOS apps in November
AppAnnie just published its November statistics about global app sales and the results indicate that the Finnish surge in the app market continues. Supercell’s Clash …
Nintendo’s amazing triumph in Japan may doom the company internationally
According to Japanese gaming bible Famitsu, Nintendo (NTDOY) 3DS sold 333,000 units in the week ending December 16, while Sony’s (SNE) PS Vita limped along …
