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American consumers seem to be generally happier with their recent computer purchases lately than in years past, but it appears buyers of some brands are happier than others. The spring launch of Apple’s iPad helped the Cuptertino company boost its already formidable customer satisfaction rating in the 2010 edition of the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which was delivered this week.
AT&T would lose about 1.4 million subscribers to Verizon should the latter carrier break up its competitor’s lengthy but rocky monogamy in the U.S. with Apple and win the right to sell the iPhone, equity research firm Credit Suisse posited Tuesday. It estimates about half of the potential 2.57 million customers whose contracts will be up by the rumored February 2011 launch of a Verizon iPhone will actually leave AT&T.
Following the lead of one of its parent companies, Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch an Android app store under its V Cast label. More information about the launch will become available next week at the company’s developer conference, Verizon spokesperson Debi Lewis said, but she added it’s been in the works since the company opened the V Cast store in June with apps for Verizon’s Blackberry products.
Sellout. Unprincipled. Evil. These aren’t the sort of adjectives Google executives are used to hearing applied to their little startup, now a $150 billion company that has grown from a simple search engine into a dominating corporate powerhouse that even has its own foreign policy challenges. However, the company has been in for a bruising in some quarters this week.
Netflix said Tuesday that it has reached a deal with a movie-studio owned pay-tv and streaming service that will make recent theatrical releases available to its customers 90 days after they begin to appear on premium cable and on-demand channels. The agreement will give Netflix subscribers access to about 3,000 films in the Epix library beginning Sept. 1.