Sentences with phrase «on sales of its hardware»

«Even if Amazon makes no incremental contribution on the sale of the hardware, the fact that the company has used its distribution prowess to define and dominate the low end of the device ecosystem is quite impressive,» Rohan continued.

Apple sells e-books to make its high - priced devices more attractive, making money on the sale of the hardware.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for any company to rely on the sale of hardware to be profitable, unless you are entering a new market for the first time.

While Apple primarily relies on the sale of its hardware products, Facebook relies on advertising revenue.

Not exact matches

Through the end of October, the company has sold 2.6 million hardware units in the U.S., and on Monday, boosted its full year sales forecast (worldwide) for the Switch from 10 million to 14 million units.

Besides its main line of business, which continues to be its HUD hardware that «snap fits» to existing ski goggles, RI also has other revenue streams including: app sales (for custom software running on MOD Live), consulting fees from prototyping and R&D work for its partners, and royalties from its partners.

A couple years ago, when Apple CEO Tim Cook started talking up Apple's services revenue — largely millions of tiny purchases of songs on iTunes and apps in Apple's App Store — critics assumed this was a smokescreen to distract from weakening hardware sales.

In recent months, Apple has been emphasizing the size of its overall user base, which includes used iPhones, rather than focusing strictly on new device sales, a sign of the increasing importance of making money off users without selling them new hardware.

The mobile point - of - sale (mPOS) is going to have a massive impact on the payments - hardware and payments - software industry.

International Business Machines Corp. agreed to sell its low - end server business for $ 2.3 billion to Lenovo Group Ltd., decreasing its reliance on computer hardware as sales of the products plunge.

«We think the Model 3 will feature hardware and software that provide a level of active safety that could significantly lead all other cars on sale today and could, if the company achieves its goal, be an order of magnitude (i.e. 10x) safer than the average car on the road,» Jonas wrote in a note Thursday.

Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result of the rise of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used in an image, to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves millions of miles away in real time.

The star performer was hardware, where earnings soared 117 per cent to $ 27.1 million as Metcash booked a full six months of sales and synergy benefits from Home Timber & Hardware, which was bought from Woolworths on October 2, 2016 for $ 180 hardware, where earnings soared 117 per cent to $ 27.1 million as Metcash booked a full six months of sales and synergy benefits from Home Timber & Hardware, which was bought from Woolworths on October 2, 2016 for $ 180 Hardware, which was bought from Woolworths on October 2, 2016 for $ 180 million.

Something like this would be on the back of page C - 7, underneath the advertisement for a hardware sale.

That being said, the impact of the GW on sales (both Hardware and Software-wise, even though several games on Nintendo 3DS have enjoyed better sales this week) will only be really noticeable next week, with the last three days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday).

We are sure Sony does not mind as a PSP game has been bested by another on the same hardware, which should be driving up even more sales of the handled console.

As expected, the Nintendo Switch is still on top of the hardware charts with a significant bump in sales compared to last week.

In terms of hardware sales this week, it's much the same story as last week with PlayStation on top, even beating out the New Nintendo 3DS in both iterations.

The various Nintendo Switch games in the Top 20 all saw an increase in sales this week (despite the drop in Hardware sales), thanks to the public holiday on Friday and the recent launch of Super Mario Odyssey bringing in lots of new users hungry for games.

On the hardware side of things, Wii U sales have cooled considerably since last week, dropping to just 11k this week.

Iwata wrapped up the press conference by admitting that third - party games often don't sell well on Nintendo hardware, with Wii third - party game sales low in Japan and the first year of Nintendo DS software sales all coming from the publisher's own titles.

2011 ended with a thud for Sony, with the publisher's newly released portable system, the PlayStation Vita, sagging in sales on the Japanese software and hardware charts for the week of December 26 to January 1.

That's right: we're talking of Pokémon GO, which had a «huge impact» on sales, with both Hardware and Software doing «very well» according to ZhugeEX / Daniel Ahmad.

Nintendo held a financial briefing earlier today that gave us a lot of insight hardware and software sales on Nintendo platforms.

Because of Yo - kai Watch 3, sales of the New 3DS LL rose by nearly 7,000, putting it ahead of the PlayStation 4, which moved 20,4000 units and settled for second place on the hardware chart.

Appearing on Stand G380 of the exhibition, DigiBox will highlight the latest innovations from American hardware and software company NewTek, for whom it is the sole UK Distributor with dedicated sales, engineering and installation teams.

While hardware and software designers worked on the e-reading device in Palo Alto and, later, Cupertino, the Seattle office set to building the other crucial component of the Kindle — the catalog of books that would be for sale through the device.

Also, while still on the Surface RT device, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come out in defense of its latest hardware venture in his usual style claiming it to have recorded modest sales success so far.

It's no secret that Amazon is barely making money — if any — on sales of the Kindle Fire hardware.

B&N further said that the consolidated NOOK business across all of the company's segments, including sales of digital content, device hardware and related accessories, increased 85 percent in the second quarter to $ 220 million, on a comparable sales basis.

Essentially, B&N is willing to take a deeper cut on hardware sales now for a longer - term gain in ebook sales, and ultimately a greater share of the UK ereading market.

In the U.S., Amazon sells its hardware at cost, relying instead on sales of books, apps and movies for profit.

He went on to say that the new website is a «strategic shift from hardware to content - focused activities is reflected throughout our financials, including improved margins and lower expenses as content becomes the focus of the Nook sales mix.

Generally considered to be among the higher - end mobile device hardware options (don't be fooled by the number of sales, which will appear small by comparison to the likes of Samsung or Huawei), the Nexus lineup is overdue for a refresh (and there may not be much time, if Google gets out of hardware it may be more difficult for the company to keep the reigns tight on the direction taken by Android as a platform).

To be honest, I am sick and tired of reporting on declining Nook hardware and e-book sales.

On the hardware sales side, speculation of strong Passport sales could finally push shares towards back to the $ 15 level.

Jumper EZBook 3 Pro On sale for $ 259, this convertible notebook offers interesting enough hardware to make it worth considering, since this 13.3 - inch Windows 10 notebook is powered by the quad - core Intel Celeron N3450 processor, with 6 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, full dual - band 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac Wi - Fi, and a display resolution of 1920 x 1080.

At the moment, it appears that the market leader, Kindle is taken head on aggressively by the big e-book reader manufacturers by contending on hardware specifications along with after sales services of equal measure.

In that manner, Amazon and Barnes & Noble seem to be following in the steps of Sony's PlayStation or Microsoft's Xbox franchise: «This is the same - razor / razor blade» business model successfully employed in the video game console business, where the hardware is sold at a loss and profits are made on sales of content.»

For the first three years of this decade tablet sales continued to increase every year as manufactures kept a constant stream of new hardware appearing on the market.

Not only can they advertise hardware optimized for video streaming and integrated directly into existing Amazon.com services of all sorts, but a simultaneous release of an Instant Video for Android App would earn them sales space on the vast majority of competing Tablet PCs.

«With zero profits on their hardware, both these companies now hope to make their money in this market through the sale of books.»

Though those numbers don't add up, they do show that — for all of the players — the focus is less on hardware and more on the opportunity for ongoing e-book sales.

So Amazon would be nuts to let Google upstage its own OS on its tablets, regardless of lost hardware sales.

The discounts on Nook Media hardware and content, coming as they do the month after Barnes & Noble reported an 8.8 percent revenue drop and 2.2 percent decline in sales of Nook products from last year, doesn't seem to be a show of faith in Nook's future prospects.

Back in 2009 the retailer cut the second - gen Kindle after its rival launched the NOOK, on the assumption that ongoing content sales would offset any narrowing of hardware margins.

Barnes & Noble is hoping that the low prices, and updates to its online store that launched last month, should help increase sales of both hardware and the media to play on it.

The consolidated NOOK business across all of the company's segments, including sales of digital content, device hardware and related accessories, increased 85 % in the second quarter to $ 220 million, on a comparable sales basis.

If doing this means that Amazon must take a loss on the sales of digital content and tablet hardware, it will be well worth it in the end.»

Whatever they stand to lose in hardware sales could easily be made up in ebook sales to all those Kindle owners who want the peace of mind that they'll be able to read their library on any device in the future.