Apple CEO: We've locked up 94% of education tablet market

Apple CEO: We've locked up 94% of education tablet market

Tim Cook calls the company's share in the education arena unheard of in most businesses.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that iPads make up 94 percent of the market for education tablet, a stat that he noted was impressive and unheard of in most businesses.
"I've never seen a market share that high before," Cook said Monday during a conference call with analysts.
The company has attempted to push its tablets into the education arena with textbook support and discounts for bulk purchases. Schools represent a potential source of growth at a time when the iPad's market share dominance has eroded in the general consumer market. Cook said the education business represented a potential $1 billion market for Apple.
Apple on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations, led by strong iPhone sales. But iPad sales of 14.1 million units was short of estimates and flat from a year ago.
Apple could see a spike in iPad sales in the next quarter, with consumers likely scrambling to buy the iPad Air, which hits the market on Friday. The iPad Mini with Retina Display is scheduled for later in November.

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Nokia sold 8.8 million Lumia phones in Q3 yes!

They never Said that :Nokia sold 8.8 million Lumia phones in Q3

Nokia
sold 8.8 million Lumia phones in the last three months, a nearly 20 per
cent increase driven by the success of the wallet-friendly Lumia 520Nokia sold 8.8 million
Lumia phones in the last three months, a 19 per cent increase over
previous numbers driven in large part by the success of the
wallet-friendly Lumia 520.

And Nokia appears to be finally making
some headway in the US market. Although the company only shifted 1.4
million phones in North America this summer, that's nearly four times as
many as this time last year.


Nokia revealed the numbers today in its Q3 results for the three months
from July to September. Net sales for Q3 totalled 5.7 billion euros
($7.845 billion), as the total number of units sold, including both
smart phones and feature phones, rose by 4 per cent to 55.8 million.
Operating profit was 118 million euros ($162.4 million).

Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia phones in the previous quarter, but still made a Q2 loss of 115 million euros ($150 million).

Over the whole of 2013 so far, from January to September, Nokia's total sales fell 22 per cent.


It's been a tumultuous few months for what was once the biggest phone
manufacturer in the world. Nokia's Windows Phone partner Microsoft is to
cement its relationship with the ailing Finnish firm by buying Nokia's device and services division for $7 billion -- but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been criticised by the Finnish government over his "quite outrageous" bonus.


The deal is expected to be finalised at a shareholder meeting on 19 November in Helsinki.

Nokia is forging ahead with new devices, launching its first
tablet, the Lumia 2520, alongside the Lumia 1520 and 1320 smart phones last week. CNET met Stephen Elop at the launch of the new phones, where he told us "our challenge is to get you to try (Windows Phone and Windows RT) in the first place."

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