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Apple shares have plunged, after the tech giant posted the record profits and sales of its iPhones and iPads, but also offered a disappointing forecast for the coming months. The stocks took a hit after its first-quarter earnings were released and tops the profit forecasts but with lower than expected sales of iPhone. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion along with the record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share. Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones in the quarter that ended on December 29th as compared with 37 million in the same quarter a year ago. While the sales figures for Apple iPad came in at 22.9 million, which is around 1 million short with the predictions.

Apple iPad Mini is finally heading towards India tomorrow, that is, on 6th December, 2012 along with its fourth generation sibling, Apple iPad 4. This mini tablet by Apple came into rumors in the second quarter of this year. Proving the rumors to be true, Apple Inc. unveiled the tablet at an Apple Event held in San Jose, California on 23rd October, 2012. Apple iPad Mini will be the second high profile device in launched in India in quick succession with Apple iPhone 5 being the first one. This is the first iPad with a small 7.9 inch LED Backlit IPS LCD capacitive display. To replace the third generation iPad, the fourth generation iPad, that is, Apple iPad 4, is also heading towards Indian market but it will be available with a base 16GB Wi-Fi version only, as the higher versions of iPad 4 will make their way in the mid of December, 2012. The fourth generation iPad will have super responsive and brilliantly illuminated Retina Display.

The market was already in shock when Apple Inc. announced their fourth generation iPad within a time period of eight months right after the launch of their third generation iPad, that is, Apple iPad 3 with Retina display, and now the company has revealed the prices of 2 of its highly anticipated gadgets. Apple iPad Mini and Apple iPad 4, both come in variants and the prices of both the devices varies as per their storage capacity and connectivity. In order to give a solid answer to its strong rival, Samsung, Apple has adopt this new strategy. As per this strategy, Apple will now launch two products in a year rather than only one, which it was following since long. The most happening product of the year is Samsung Galaxy S III and Apple bounced back with its Apple iPhone 5 with more new features and updated software. It seems that Apple believes in strong and fair competition and we welcome this belief with open arms.

It is not only Bollywood or Hollywood where you get to see the sequel of any hit movie, but the smartphone segment also has the same scenrio. It has now become a trend to make an alternation of the most popular gadget in order to get the maximum benefit. After the grand success of Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Mobiles has come up with its mini sequel by the name of Samsung Galaxy S III Mini. Now its Apple's turn to get back into news again and so it does, as there are rumors in the air about the successor of the most happening smartphone, Apple iPhone 5, by the name of Apple iPhone 5S. This rumored inheritor of Apple iPhone 5 is expected to hit the retail shelves sometime during the mid-2013. And it is not just Apple iPhone 5 that is getting a descendant, Apple iPad 4 will also have its successor, Apple iPad 5, during almost the same phase. These two will be the next generation smartphone and tablet from Apple Inc. with improvements in the features, performance and and of course sales volume too.

Apple finally launched the 6^th generation iPhone, iPhone 5 in India, a month after hitting stores in the United States. The phone went on sale in India on 2^nd October with a starting price of Rs 45,500. The iPhone 5, which is said to be the ‘thinnest, lightest and fastest iPhone ever’ and as Apple CEO Tim Cook said was the "fastest-selling" phone in history, is expected to recreate the history in India as well.

Apple devotees had a field day at the launch of iPhone 5, probably the most eagerly awaited phone in the history of the world. Held in San Francisco, this was the first iPhone launch since the death of Apple's founder, Steve Jobs. But CEO Tim Cooks handled the responsibility of the launch brilliantly well. The fifth generation iPhone embraces a completely new glass and aluminium avatar, and is a whooping 18 per cent thinner, and 20 per cent lighter than its predecessor, i.e. iPhone 4S. Apple iPhone 5 is 7.66mm thick, weighs just 112 gram, packs a 4 inch Retina display, which offers a resolution of 1136x640 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16:9 for full-screen movie playback. Also, the handset will run on iOS 6, and will ditch Google's maps for its own application. Apple's speech recognition software Siri also receives updates that allows it to give the users sports scores, and even book restaurants.

Looks like Apple is one vengeful tech company that just won't let Samsung be. After its $1.05 billion win against Samsung last week, Apple has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit that includes 22 new devices, including smartphones and tablets. In the first lawsuit, which was filed way back in April 2011, the Cupertino company sued Samsung for copying technology off the Apple iPad and Apple iPhone. A hard-hitting case the second time may cause severe damage because the new lawsuit includes Samsung's bestselling devices, i.e. Samsung Galaxy III, Samsung Galaxy II, Samsung Galaxy Note, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, among others. Apple had earlier petitioned for a ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus and on the Galaxy S3. While the ban on Nexus was initially granted but was later temporarily lifted, Apple couldn't get the S3 banned due to a busy court schedule.

Apple iPhone! Has any other handset been more in news than this? Well, here’s once again a rumor stating the final releasing date of Apple iPhone 5. All the rumors point towards a September launch, second half of September to be precise. At the time when iPhone 4S was announced back in the year 2011, it was iPhone 5 that was high-on-expectation list. However, some time back, rumors about the same iPhone said that it will be launched by the end of October, but then Samsung jazzed up the market with its Galaxy Note 10.1. To win that market and hype back again, seems Apple is now fix on releasing their new wonder tool just as soon. Along with this rumor, there’s fire relating to the same saying the pre-ordering starts September 12 onwards, while the first shipment of iPhone 5s is expected on September 21. Some psst psst news says it will be launched along with iPad Mini, though we are not much eager to believe that.

To amaze the world, Apple has come up with Apple iPad Mini which according to its name, is a chaeper device than other iPad tablets and can be called as the smaller version of the famous iPad tablet  which is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of this year with an affordable price range between Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 13,500. This rumor has not yet been confirmend by the company but if it is true then the low-end tablet market will be enthralled to have such a high-end product at such an astounding price tag. The launch of Apple iPad Mini will give a crushing blow to the vendors such as Samsung, HTC or Toshiba that are currently ruling the mid-segment tablet market. This tablet is said to be an antecedent in Apple inventory which claims to be competitve and profitable for the tablet market.

Apple Premium Reseller program was designed by Apple to improve customer service and also expand their market coverage. Apple Premium Reseller will be offering complimentary software’s Mac’s, Apple iPhones, Apple iPods and accessories. At present there are about 49 APRs who are currently working in India, which have planned a systematic growth plan. The position for National Manager is based in Bangalore, which is located in the southern region of the subcontinent. The National Manager will be in charge of the APR program and will lead the APR coverage as per the guidelines and route map set by the smartphone manufacturing giant.

Apple Inc. touched Rs. 30,525 mark per share, and the world leader of smartphone and tablet Apple Inc. reveals its plans for Rs. 5 trillion, this decision came after some of the investors created and Wall Street analysts created a ruckus and insisted the smart phone manufacturing giant to return some of their investments in form of dividend to their share holders. According to top Apple Inc. official, who spoke to the media after attending the share holders meeting which was held in February, the company is studying the prevailing situation and has done some analyses in the demands put up by the investors.

Apple iPhones had created waves in the global mobile market when it was first launched and these devices have been continuing to do till now. Apple Mobiles launched Apple iPhone 4S about 9 months ago and now rumor has it that Apple iPhone 5 is expected to arrive in the global mobile market in the second quarter of 2012. When questioned about Apple iPhone 5 to Apple mobiles, they found it best to be tight lipped for the moment. Apparently, Apple iPhone 5 will sport a very stunning and massive 4.6 inches of LCD touch-screen display, which is certainly a drastic change as the Apple iPhone 4S had the screen size of 3.5 inches. This might act as a major risk for Apple mobiles, but as far as its reputation in the market is concerned, it would turn out to be a positive point for Apple.

Apple incurs Rs. 15,875 in manufacturing Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi 16 GB. The tablet is retailed at Rs. 25,000 in United States of America. According to iSuppli, Cupertino-based firm makes more than 50% on the manufacturing cost for each unit. Apple 64 GB LTE variant of new iPad from Apple costs around Rs. 20,773 and it is retailed at a Rs. 41,663 according to iSuppli news inputs, which means that Apple profit levels are much higher, on every model it produces. Apple incurs higher cost of production on their new iPad variant than Apple iPad 2, but even then the Apple kept its new iPad device similar with Apple iPad 2 devices. Apple is making higher profits with their tablets by including additional NAND memory. There is only marginal difference between Apple iPad 16 GB flash memory variant and iPad 32 GB variant, the price difference between these two variants is only Rs. 842.

Apple Inc. has recently released its third generation of iPad. When this new device released by the top Apple official, who boasted about all the new features that have been included in the new iPad device, such as the Retina display, quad core graphics engine, and LTE networking. When this new device was launched the Apple official said that that the New iPad 3 will have a similar battery power of Apple iPad 2, but the ground reality is the New Apple device requires much more battery power that iPad 2. The new device from Apple is equipped with retina display and New iPad 3 supports 4G LTE and 4G on iPad 3 requires much more battery power than 3G on iPad 2.

Apple Inc, the smartphone and tablet giant, has announced that they would be discontinuing Apple iPad 2 32GB and 64GB variants. According to the Apple officials one of the main reasons for discontinuing iPad 2 models is that it’s creating lot of confusion between the iPad 2 and iPad 3 which was recently launched by this tablet giant. Now Apple will only be selling two variants in iPad 2. The two variants would be iPad 2 16GB variant, and iPad 2 16 GB Wi-Fi variant,  that too at a discounted price.