Neowin News Feed for: Sales

HTC One sees "pretty good" sales of 5 million, far less than the Galaxy S4

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:03 +0100

HTC have revealed that their new flagship device, the One, has sold "around 5 million" handsets in four months, far behind sales of the Samsung Galaxy S4, which sold 10 million in one month. Read more...

Lenovo posts record sales just as PC market shrinks

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:39:57 +0100

Lenovo has published its quarterly earnings report and the Chinese manufacturer has had a record setting quarter. They now stand at 15.5% of the global PC market and they rank third on smart devices. Read more...

Samsung's Galaxy S4 soars to 10m sales in under a month

Andy Weir — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:57 +0100

Samsung has sold over 10 million Samsung Galaxy S4 handsets since sales began last month - and with plans to extend sales to 155 countries by next month, sales figures look set to grow significantly. Read more...

Windows Phone doubles global marketshare, but still far behind

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:41:37 +0100

Garner has published their report on global handset sales for the first quarter of 2013. Android owns the market with 75% while Windows Phone accounts for 3%. Apple is still in second place at 18%. Read more...

A closer look at the Windows 8 sales numbers

Brad Sams — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:51:58 +0100

Microsoft has now given us four data points relating to Windows 8 sales and we have plotted the sales points to offer up a visual representation of the sales figures that Microsoft has released. Read more...

Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surfaces in Q1 2013, according to IDC

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:23:49 +0100

According to IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface devices in Q1 2013. The majority of those devices are Surface Pros, with the Surface RT accounting for just 0.4% of all tablets sold. Read more...

Samsung 'crushes' Apple with its earnings report

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:09:14 +0100

Samsung and Apple go head to head via their latest earnings reports and the Korean company is winning. It has reportedly sold nearly twice as many devices as Apple and its profits soared. Read more...

A tale of Windows store success: the developer making $30k a month

Brad Sams — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:45:22 +0100

Microsoft's newly launched Windows Store often gets bashed for its lack of apps and shortage of killer apps. While the critics may be screaming, one developer is laughing all the way to the bank. Read more...

Apple bans digital comic due to gay sex images [Update]

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:00:03 +0100

While it's not uncommon for Apple to ban certain content from the App Store, it has banned the latest instalment in the popular SAGA comic series for its inclusion of images depicting gay sex. Read more...

Microsoft announces two weeks of Xbox Live Arcade game sales

John Callaham — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:04 +0100

Microsoft has announced it will be cutting the prices of quite a few downloadable Xbox Live Arcade games for the next two weeks, with prices reduced by as much as 75 percent. Read more...

Report claims just 500,000 Chromebooks sold in last two years

Andy Weir — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:37:24 +0000

A report claims that fewer than half a million Chromebooks have been sold in the 21 months since they first went on sale, with "compatibility and consumer usage habits" highlighted as factors. Read more...

Analyst: 1 million Windows Phones sold in the US in 2012, seems dubious

Brad Sams — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:39:40 +0000

Analysts, love them or hate me, sometimes they offer up the only insight into sales numbers when the parent company, in this case, Microsoft, refuses to release the numbers to the public. Read more...

Bloomberg: Surface sells only 1.5 million units, 400K are Pros

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:59:55 +0000

According to Bloomberg, who have sources close to the matter, the Microsoft Surface line has only sold 1.5 million units since its launch, however 400,000 of those have been Pros with decent adoption Read more...

iPhone 5 outsells Galaxy S III globally for the first time

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:00:46 +0000

New research has discovered that Apple's iPhone 5 and 4S both outsold the Galaxy S III globally in Q4 2012, which is the first time ever. Sales of iPhones now account for one in five phones sold. Read more...

Apple has paid out a total of $8 billion to developers

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:43:48 +0000

Developers received a handout of $8 billion, up from $6.5 billion three months ago which netted Apple around $3.5 billion in revenue and continues to show that iOS is a profitable platform for devs. Read more...

UBS: Microsoft sold 1 million Surfaces last quarter

Brad Sams — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:03:39 +0000

The Surface with Windows RT has been on the market for a few months now and many are starting to wonder how many units Microsoft has sold; UBS is placing that number at 1 million units sold to date. Read more...

Nokia's Asha range outselling Lumias 2:1

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:28:49 +0000

Nokia's low-end Asha touch-phone range for emerging markets is outselling their flagship Lumia Windows Phone range by 2:1, showing fantastic growth even in markets where low-end Android devices rule Read more...

A closer look at the Windows 8 sales figures

Brad Sams — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:40:35 +0000

Microsoft has now given us three data points relating to Windows 8 sales and we have plotted the sales points to offer up a visual representation of the sales figures that Microsoft has released. Read more...

Windows 8 sales are still [insert your own negative word here]

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:00:56 +0000

Not a day goes by without a story or fleeting comment on Windows 8's negative sales. Now the New York Times has added “shaky” and “tepid” to the list, but is the overall picture that disappointing? Read more...

Apple isn't getting a US ban on Samsung devices

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:05:43 +0000

While Apple and Samsung continue to squabble in courts across the world, Judge Lucy Koh has favoured Samsung this time, denying Apple's request to ban 26 Samsung devices for sale Read more...