Sharp has drastically cut-back production of 9.7-inch touchscreens for Apple's iPad, shifting its focus to the 7.85-inch screens that it makes for the iPad Mini at its Kameyama plant in Japan. The news caps a slowdown that began in ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook expects China to become the company’s largest market, surpassing the U.S. Optimistic about the potential of the market, the company now plans to exceed its original target of 25 official Apple stores in the ...
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IDG News Service - Apple CEO Tim Cook expects China to become the company's largest market, surpassing the U.S. Optimistic about the potential of the market, the company now plans to exceed its original target of 25 official Apple stores ...
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Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
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Computerworld-Apple will continue to dominate the world's tablet market through 2016 if it launches a smaller iPad this year,according to research firm IDC. In a revised five-year forecast,IDC said last month that the addition of a ...
Apple dominated the global tablet market last quarter on the back of record sales, a research firm said today, and reclaimed a massive lead over rivals. The Cupertino, Calif. company's share of all tablet sales jumped 44% in the second ...
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An aggressive iPad Mini cannibalization rate could add as few as 3 million tablets to Apple's bottom line in what is shaping up to be a record total for the quarter, an analyst said today. Cannibalization -- as opposed to replacement -- ...
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Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Most experts have estimated the iPad Mini's ...
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Apple today said it would start selling the new iPad in China starting Friday, July 20. As analysts expected, the move came quickly after Apple settled a dispute with a Chinese company over the iPad name. The tablet, which Apple ...
Apple stores in mainland China are using a reservation system this time around to launch the company's new iPad, months after its iPhone 4S launch in the country resulted in an irate customer throwing eggs at a Beijing store, while leaving ...
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The stakes are high for both Apple and Samsung Electronics as they prepare to kick off their much-anticipated patent-infringement trial in front of a California jury on Monday. At the end of the proceedings, the 10-member jury, under the ...
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Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. And because Microsoft lacks a tablet operating system, sales of Windows-powered ...
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Just how much does Apple dominate competitors in the U.S. tablet market? The question has always been one left to estimates by analysts, but documents recently filed as part of the court battle between the company and Samsung provide actual ...
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With only a week left to go until Christmas, the iPad mini has been crowned the most looked-for festive gift of 2012. That is according to online shopping website PriceGrabber.co.uk, which based its findings on website analytics for 1 ...
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Increased talk of a September launch of the next iPhone, as well as a new, smaller iPad -- if accurate -- would make it easier for Apple to erase the bad taste of the second quarter and beat its own lowered expectations this quarter, a Wall ...
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