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Asymco: Can the iPad sustain 150% yearly growth?

There is a precedent: iPhone sales have doubled, on average, every year since 2007

The chief difference between the independent analysts who follow Apple (AAPL) and their counterparts on Wall Street is that the independents put a premium on being right.

The professionals, with all due respect, seem to care more about not over-promising or straying too...

If the new iPad is ‘hot,’ what do you call a MacBook Pro?

The heat generated by Consumer Reports' thermal test is likely to dissipate quickly 

Mike Daisey owes Consumer Reports' Donna Tapellini a thank-you note for diverting attention -- at least briefly -- from his malfeasances with her preliminary report on the new iPad.

CR engineers discovered -- and on Tuesday Tapellini reported -- that playing Infinity Blade II for...

If the new iPad is ‘hot,’ what do you call a MacBook Pro?

The heat generated by Consumer Reports' thermal test is likely to dissipate quickly 

Mike Daisey owes Consumer Reports' Donna Tapellini a thank-you note for diverting attention -- at least briefly -- from his malfeasances with her preliminary report on the new iPad.

CR engineers discovered -- and on Tuesday Tapellini reported -- that playing Infinity Blade II for...

How iTunes Could Kill Windows 8 Tablets

It seems unlikely you'll ever see an iTunes icon here.Despite being totally dedicated to Mac OS X right now, I can’t help but get excited about Windows 8. Having enjoyed the Metro UI experience with Windows Phone, I can’t wait to try it out...

Competing with Apple: ‘Great products may not even be necessary’

A Dartmouth strategy professor on why Amazon may succeed and the Androids could fail

"The innovation game is changing," writes Dartmouth's Ron Adner in the Harvard Business Review. "Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. And as the [Amazon's Kindle] Fire's limited memory, ho-hum processor, and lack of camera demonstrate, great products may not even...

Windows 8 Due In October But With Limited Low-Cost iPad-Competing Tablets

Windows 8 tablet vs. new iPadAccording to a new report, Microsoft will launch Windows 8 this October. That tracks with the company’s announced plan to launch the latest version of Windows before the end of the. The launch will include traditional PCs like desktops...

The Street scrambles to adjust its Apple expectations

Updating price targets to account for a dividend, a buyback and 3 million iPad

Most Apple (AAPL) analysts like to publish their quarterly estimates for the current quarter the day after the company reports its results from the last. And then, unless things change dramatically, they stick with their forward-looking numbers for the next two and...

Sorry, carriers, 9 out of 10 tablets sold are Wi-Fi

Approximately 90 percent of all tablets in the U.S. relied on Wi-Fi over 3G mobile broadband last year, according to industry analyst Chetan Sharma. The data suggests that carriers aren't a needed distribution chain for slates for several reasons: long-term contracts and redundant data plans.

Apple’s iOS devices: Selling ‘em as fast as it can make ‘em

The company is ramping up production at ever more impressive rates

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook often says about the company's iOS devices that it is selling them as fast as it can make them.

In that context, the chart published Tuesday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster illustrates what may be Cook's most impressive achievement as COO: The...

Apple: 3 million iPads sold this weekend

Since the first iPads went on sale Friday morning, 3 million tablets have been sold, according to Apple. That's the same number of iPads Apple sold in the first 80 days after the original iPad went on sale in 2010.

Sales of the new iPad set new records, say Apple and AT&T

Early reports that its reception was "not-so-spectacular" seem to have been off the mark

Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research stuck his neck out Sunday and pronounced sales of the new iPad "somewhat light." Relying on the number of hits on Chitika's ad network-- always a risk, in our experience -- he went so far as to...

FAA to revisit the use of certain personal electronics on flights

Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs for the Federal Aviation Administration, told the New York Times the agency will take a “fresh look” at electronics use on planes. Bits Blog write...