As more viewers step away from their TVs to watch video content on mobile devices, Apple (AAPL) and its iOS system are becoming even more dominant, according to a report released Thursday by Adobe Digital Index, a research unit of software maker and digital ad services provider Adobe Systems (ADBE). The Apple iOS system’s share of consumers’ premium video viewing rose to 47% in Q1 from 43% in Q1 2014, with the growth “coming mainly from large
With the Fitbit IPO coming and the Apple (AAPL) Watch emerging, the timing looks good for the wearable device market, which in Q1 recorded its eighth consecutive quarter of steady growth. Vendors tripled their wearable shipments in Q1 to 11.4 million units from just 3.8 million in Q1 2014, reports research firm IDC. And this excludes Apple Watch, which started shipping in April. Fitbit remained the market leader with a 34% market share, but that’s
Anyone expecting Apple’s (AAPL) new subscription streaming music service to be a big sales and profit generator will be sorely disappointed, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a research report Wednesday. Next week, Apple is widely expected to unveil a new music service based on Beats Music, which it acquired last August when it bought headphone maker Beats Electronics. Beats Music has about 300,000 paying subscribers vs. 15 million at rival Spotify. “With the $10 per month expected price for the new streaming service, even if Apple were to grow its paying streaming music subscriber base to match Spotify’s 15 million (which we view as highly unlikely), it would add less than 1% to revenue in 2016,” Munster said. “In other words, an Apple music streaming will benefit the iPhone user experience, but not benefit the company in any meaningful way financially.” The Apple music service is part of…