Channel Checks

Apple iPhone 4 Shipping Times Down

October 7, 2010

Are you looking for an Apple (AAPL) iPhone 4 online? Good news – Apple.com is now shipping them in 5-7 days, rather than the three-week wait we’ve seen since the phone’s release on June 23. It’s a lot easier to get an iPhone 4 at an Apple or AT&T (T) store, but this is a [...]

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ChangeWave: Android Interest Catching Up to iPhone

September 30, 2010

ChangeWave Research just dropped some interesting data from its latest consumer smartphone survey. Interest in smartphones powered by Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system has hit an all0time high at 37% – that’s an amazing accomplishment when you consider that Android was basically off the radar until November of 2009 when the first Motorola (MOT) Droid [...]

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PC Market Still Stinks as AMD Cuts Guidance, iPad Rocking

September 23, 2010

If you’ve been reading my stuff on Minyanville, then you know that I’ve been very bearish on the PC industry. Here are some of my recent headines: July 7 – Why It’s Time to Dump PC Stocks August 20 – Six Reasons PC Stocks Haven’t Bottomed Yet September 1 – Why Merger Mania is Bearish [...]

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The Apple iPad: How Well is it Selling?

September 22, 2010

As readers of my columns on Minyanville may know, I am a huge fan of using the Internet, the phone, and store visits to perform channel checks. I don’t like to take a company’s or the media’s word about anything – I like to get out in the real world to figure out what’s hot [...]

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