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The iPod, once Apple’s biggest source of income, has been overtaken by the iPhone in terms of the money it’s bringing in to the company. This is a pretty significant development, so let’s have a closer look at this trend.
Since we don’t have actual unit sales figures, at least not over time, let’s see what we can learn from this trend graph from Google Insights for Search. It shows the popularity of the terms “iPod” versus “iPhone” in searches. It’s quite revealing:
Judging by this graph, it looks like mid-2008 might have been the turning point for the iPhone, i.e. when Apple launched the iPhone 3G. From then on the iPhone has remained more popular than the iPod, at least in terms of what people are searching for online. Of course, these are not sales numbers, but the trend shown is definitely relevant.
Another notable thing with this graph is that the high point for the iPhone is higher than it ever was for the iPod (at least since 2004, Google’s trend data doesn’t go further back than that).
Does this mean that Apple has an even bigger success on its hands with the iPhone than it ever had with the iPod?
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Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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varun
August 11th, 2009 at 11:31 am
understandable,since iPhone has a iPod.
Xbox Live Guy
August 13th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I wouldn’t say it is a bigger success, however I will say it has had an incredulous amount of growth within about 1 year. Notice how the trends spark at new releases of iPods and iPhones. And at the end of the trend, iPhones are showing that they will potentially increase whereas iPods will not increase as much…
Anyway, people that have iPhones don’t really need iPods.