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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Record sales, despite stock outs, that exceeded their expectations
FORTUNE -- The actual number of iPad minis (as opposed to iPad 4s) sold over the past three days is still unclear. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster put it at 2 to 2.5 million, despite the fact that 9 out of 10 customers his firm polled last Friday were buying the mini, and not the...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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In pre-market trading, AAPL went from down $3 to up more than $8 on the news
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) announced Monday that it sold 3 million iPads in the three-day weekend since sales of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad began Friday morning.
The company did not offer details about how many of each model it sold, although the vast majority...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Siri got nice little boost a few weeks ago when she (or he, depending on your locale) was updated to handle sports information, restaurant reservations and movie listings, but it seems the virtual assistant’s faculty with films will soon extend beyond just rattling off showtimes. According to a handful of images obtained by 9to5Mac, Siri will be able to...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple has just announced that the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad, both of which debuted on October 23 in San Francisco, have just topped 3 million sales in 3 days.
The smaller, lighter tablet had been rumored for years, yet its arrival was somewhat overshadowed by Hurricane Sandy devastating the North East. And the 4th gen iPad came...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Google unveiled an entirely new line of Nexus devices in a range of shapes and sizes, from the Nexus 4 smartphone to the Nexus 10 tablet, and some aspects of the product launch proved confusing. Why build a smartphone with modern specifications across the board, and then leave out LTE connectivity? Or why push more and improved Nexus tablet hardware,...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Android tablets -- from Samsung and Amazon -- took up the slack
FORTUNE -- IDC's report on the worldwide tablet market for the third quarter of calendar 2012 -- before Apple (AAPL) released the new iPad mini and iPad 4 -- show the growth of the global market slowing and Apple's share of that market falling from to 50.4% from 65.5% in calendar Q2.
"After...
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November 5, 2012 Posted By:
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CUPERTINO, California—November 5, 2012—Apple® today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad® mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March. The Wi-Fi + Cellular versions of both iPad mini and fourth generation iPad...
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November 4, 2012 Posted By:
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The company's first retail outlet in Shenzhen, China, employs 250, draws huge crowds
FORTUNE -- Three things struck me about Paco Wong's 18-minute YouTube video (pasted below) from the opening Saturday of Apple's (AAPL) first store in Shenzhen, China:
The number (reportedly 250) of retail staffers the company has employed
The size and enthusiasm of the crowd of residents that showed up for the free...
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November 4, 2012 Posted By:
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One thing that’s become apparent about the iPad mini during my past few days with it is just how well it fills the role of a second screen device. The iPhone and the iPad both have their merits as a companion while lounging around and watching TV, but the iPad mini hits the sweet spot of portability, power...
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November 3, 2012 Posted By:
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Supplies are tight, say Shanghai scalpers, but should ease in a week or so
FORTUNE -- "iPad mini price fry the 3000 yuan cattle worried not sell."
That, according to Google Translate, is the headline in The Phoenix, a Chinese language website that covers the Asian tech market.
The thrust of the story is that although the Apple (AAPL) store in Hong Kong...
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