Although the iPad remains the best - selling tablet, Apple's share of the tablet market dropped 8.1 points year -
over-year during the last quarter — albeit based on shipments rather than actual sales to end users, according to new iDC numbers.
Not exact matches
«We typically don't go into this level of detail but I think it's important this
quarter to give you additional color, and maybe the two most important messages are that we believe iPhone revenue will grow double - digits as compared to
last year
during the March
quarter and also and, importantly, that iPhone sell - through growth on a year -
over-year basis will be actually accelerating
during the March
quarter as compared to the December,» chief financial officer Luca Maestri said.
It should be noted, however, that PC shipments plummeted over 10 % year -
over-year during the fourth
quarter of 2015, which means that although fourth
quarter PC shipments fell only slightly in the latest
quarter, they're still far from making up for the big drop in shipments
last year.
Palo Alto, for instance, reported 27 % year -
over-year revenue growth
last quarter, while Cisco's security business increased 8 %
during the
quarter that ended in October.
Also, Adobe said that merchants spent 47 percent more on Google Shopping Ads year -
over-year last quarter, meanwhile they decreased spending on text - based ads by 6 percent
during the same period.
Furthermore, our data shows that year -
over-year spending in these apps
during the fourth
quarter of
last year grew nearly 88 percent to approximately $ 242 million, up from an estimated $ 129 million in 4Q16.
According to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data, the top 10 grossing adult coloring book apps from Q1 2016 on the U.S. App Store grew their combined revenue by 64 percent year -
over-year last quarter, doubling the 32 percent revenue growth of all iOS apps
during the same period.
Despite the swagger with which Panos Panay unveiled the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL at the company's Windows 10 Mobile event
last October, Microsoft hasn't seen sales of its smartphones increase; in fact, Lumia sales actually declined by 57 percent year -
over-year during the company's most recent
quarter.