http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/ 2008-11-21T20:21:22Z http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/article/1935/apple-scales-up-fast.html Historically, we are used to thinking of Apple as a niche player, it still is in many ways, but its new businesses appear to be scaling pretty fast. <br><b><br>Movies</b><br><br>According to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987820.html?categoryid=18&amp;cs=1">Variety</a>, <b>Apple's </b>move into the movie business appears to be working quite well.<br><br><i><b>"Studio execs said that iTunes movie sales and rentals -- which the computer company said tops 50,000 daily -- dominate the small but closely watched digital movie biz. Apple is now on track to sell or rent 18.25 million movies a year, or triple the number of last year, before it inked deals with all major studios for new-release rentals and sales."<br></b></i><b><br>Phones</b><i><b><br><br></b></i>Apple placed an order with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD209.html">Samsung for <b>50 million </b>NAND flash chips</a>. It's basically taken over Samsung's production. The order is so big, Samsung is asking its other customers to wait. A fascinating development when you consider that Samsung also wants to play in the phone wars, but here it is helping a foe with a critical component. <br><br><br>Posted by Ed Cotton Influx Insights 2008-07-03T18:43:16Z