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• The Next Web pointed us
• mini intelligently recognizes whether your thumb is simply resting on the display or whether you’re intentionally interacting with it.
• you can hold your iPad mini just like the image on Apple’s home page without worrying about accidentally tapping the edge and changing something

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• Tim Cook just clarified, during Apple’s fiscal Q4 earnings call, that the iPad mini is not a 7-inch tablet because Apple does not “think they’re good products.
• stressed the 7.9-inch screen size
• difference in just the size between 7.9—almost 8—versus 7 is 35 percent
• usable area, it is much greater than that.

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• disk-intensive tasks — from booting up to launching apps to importing photos — are faster and more efficient.
• frequently used items are kept at the ready on speedy flash storage,
• you won’t even notice
• would imply that the data on the SSD is duplicated, and it's not.
• the data is actually moved from one tier to another, rather than only being temporarily cached there.
• all writes take place on the SSD drive, and are later moved to the mechanical drive if needed, resulting in faster initial writes.
• feature is perfect during this HD to SDD transitional period. It'll keep things affordable while still supplying great performance

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• Colocation data center Macminicolo has already gotten its hands on the new Mac mini, putting all three stock models through benchmarking
• new Mac minis are getting comparable to the last gen Xserve and 2010 Mac Pros as far as benchmarks
• Mac mini can officially be upgraded to 16GB now
• middle and high end minis are quad core i7 Ivy Bridge processors.

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• what you'd expect it to be: a slightly shrunken iPad
• No, there's no touch sensitive bezel (à la PlayBook), wireless charging or USB 3.0 support -- if you were looking for breakthrough hardware additions, you'll be sorely disappointed."
• comparison, the Nexus 7 and Fire HD feel like toys
• in use, the iPad mini doesn't "seem" significantly smaller.
• with one hand, which may be technically true for some of our larger-handed readers.
• The new iMac
• phenomenal this machine looks
• unbelievably thin
• laminated front glass and anti-glare treatments make images look like they're lying right on top of the screen
• seemed less reflective than what I'm used to
• nothing prepares you for the hybrid Fusion Drive Apple is using in this device
• iTunes by far is the worst application on my old iMac and that is why I clicked on it first. And it open almost instantly -- it felt faster than the iTunes on my flash-drive based Macbook Air"
• 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina
• Text has never looked more crisp, and colors are stupendously vibrant.
• what most caught your eye?

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• sites specializing in gadget resales saw tremendous spikes in iPad interest yesterda
• resale submissions rising 700-1000%
• Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle.com
• 700% spike from the day before

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• was given a sizable update on Tuesday, adding new features like the ability to expand multichannel audio files in a timeline, as well as support for RED cameras and native REDCODE RAW editing
• 1.53-gigabyte download

• Apple posted revenue of $36.0 billion and net quarterly profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $28.27 billion and net quarterly profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.

  • £22 and £5.1 proffits
• Apple reported total revenue of $156.5 billion and net profit of $41.7 billion for fiscal 2012, both company records. In fiscal 2011, Apple earned $25.9 billion on $108.2 billion in sales.

  • That's 61% growth year over year. Crazy stuff!
• The company now had $124.25 billion in cash and marketable securities.

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• • Expect lower overall gross margins next quarter
• • 4.9 million Macs was a new September quarter record. MacBooks accounted for 80 percent of all Mac sales.
     
   
  • In total, more than 44 million iOS devices were sold in the September quarter.
     
   
  • iCloud now has 190 million active users.
     
   
  • Apple now has $121.4 billion in cash, up from $117.2 billion from the previous quarter.
     
   
  • Revenue for the entire fiscal year topped $156 billion, driven by sales of over 200 million iOS devices, 18 million Macs, and 35 million iPods.
     
   
  • Gross margin of new iPad mini is "significantly below" Apple's average.
     
   
  • On Microsoft Surface, Cook said he gets the impression it's a "fairly compromised, confusing product." He added: "You could design a car that flies and floats, but I don't think it would do all of those things very well."
     
   
  • "We continue to be a customer of Samsung and continue to have a commercial relationship," Cook said.
     
   
  • Cook also panned 7-inch tablets. "We don't think they're good products, and we would never make one."
• • 4.9 million Macs was a new September quarter record. MacBooks accounted for 80 percent of all Mac sales.
     
   
  • In total, more than 44 million iOS devices were sold in the September quarter.
     
   
  • iCloud now has 190 million active users.
     
   
  • Apple now has $121.4 billion in cash, up from $117.2 billion from the previous quarter.
     
   
  • Revenue for the entire fiscal year topped $156 billion, driven by sales of over 200 million iOS devices, 18 million Macs, and 35 million iPods.
     
   
  • Gross margin of new iPad mini is "significantly below" Apple's average.
• News organizations like BBC, WSJ, CTV News, and others are using iPhone cameras to capture HD news footage on location.

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• • I gave up
• 1TB Seagate hard drive.

• Apple is gearing up to launch an ad-supported Internet radio service by early 2013,
• Negotiations between Apple and music labels "have intensified," according to a report published on Thursday by Bloomberg.
• executives from Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp, and Sony Corp. all visited Apple's headquarters in recent weeks to learn about the company's Internet radio plans.
• Earlier reports had claimed that Apple's offering would differ from Pandora by including an element of promotion based on what songs the music labels are promoting in any given month.

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• • Tests have been disappointing. Much fluctuation

  • Said to include tethering
• • Justify prices with unlimited calls. It's a lame disguise as they know most people would never use more than 300minutes.
    
    Expected for a completely monopolised technology. Get a pay and go and wait.
• If you run out of data, you won’t be able to use the internet and you’ll need to buy a data add-on to use the internet until your next bill date.

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• • All bureaucracy from now until April.
• he analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland has been switched off, completing the UK's transition to digital broadcasting.

• It does the job of a tablet and the job of a laptop half as well as other devices on the market, and it often makes that job harder, not easier. Instead of being a no-compromise device, it often feels like a more-compromise one. 
• In the end though, this is nothing more than Microsoft’s tablet. And a buggy, at times broken one, at that, whose “ecosystem” feels more like a tundra.
• The thing is, Surface is supposed to be so much more than just Microsoft’s iPad alternative, the Other Tablet. It may very well be one day. It has everything it needs to be that. But today it’s just another tablet. And not one you should buy.
• Imagine booting up an iPad for the first time, seeing the OS X desktop exactly as it appears on a MacBook, and then finding out you cannot run any OS X software on the device. As odd as that scenario sounds, that is exactly the situation Microsoft is facing with the next-generation Windows OS…

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• ”I haven’t personally played with a Surface yet… what we’re reading about it is… it’s a fairly compromised, confusing product… the toughest thing you do with a product is make hard trade offs.. we’ve really done that with the iPad.. the user experience is absolutely incredible… i suppose you could design a car that flies and floats, but i don’t think it would do all of those things well..

• hopes for recovery on new models that go on sale next month.
• cash reserves falling and its credit ratings cut to junk
• Its shares fell 5.09 percent to 2.05 euros on Tuesday as investors worried the eventual conversion of the bonds into stocks would reduce earnings per share. The bonds may be converted into a maximum 287.2 million shares, or 7.74 percent of current shares.
• Nokia's net cash fell to 3.6 billion euros in September from 4.2 billion in June.

  • Their financial condition would put me off investing in their products, I want a phone with future support.

  • Not quite, as they still have bonds maturing in 2014, but nothing indicates this rate of decadence is going to slow. 
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  • • At this rate they would be bankrupt in 18 months

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• On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic (UK) Limited’s Galaxy Tablet Computer, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple’s registered design No. 0000181607-0001
• The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design."
• e Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool."
• However, in a case tried in Germany regarding the same patent, the court found that Samsung engaged in unfair competition by copying the iPad design. A U.S. jury also found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple's design and utility patents, awarding over one billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple Inc. So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple's far more popular iPad.

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• The patent, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, was filed for two months before the tablet was unveiled in 2011, and cites patent documents as far back as 1947.