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  • Interest in the Surface fell 53% after its price was announced

    Meanwhile, 44% of tablet shoppers plan to buy an iPad versus 24% for Kindle Fire

    FORTUNE -- Consumer preferences in one of this holiday's hottest categories -- tablet computers -- shifted pretty dramatically between the third and fourth quarters, according to a new survey of U.S. households with broadband access published Thursday by Parks Associates.

    Among its findings:

    For the first time, more U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a tablet for the holidays MORE

    - Dec 13, 2012 5:10 PM ET
  • Survey: 53.3% of smartphone buyers plan to buy an iPhone 5

    Android is No. 2 at 35.3%. Windows Phone trails at 6.5%

    FORTUNE -- Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has been analyzing Twitter comments and polling a group of more than 800 consumers to try to gauge demand for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5. On Thursday he released his latest findings:

    As summarized by the chart above, interest in buying an iPhone 5 in the next three months jumped from 47.7% to 54.9% after it MORE

    - Dec 13, 2012 11:39 AM ET
  • 10 cool things about Google's new Maps app for iPhone

    For starters, it usually takes you where you meant to go

    FORTUNE -- On Wednesday, 84 days after Apple (AAPL) shot itself in the foot by replacing its original mobile Maps app with a Google-free version that wasn't ready for prime time, Google (GOOG) announced that a new, all-Google Maps app was available as a free download. The rush to get it was so intense that by late Wednesday it had MORE

    - Dec 13, 2012 8:50 AM ET
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  • N.H. cops taser Chinese woman who bought too many iPhones

    Didn't have enough English to know that the Apple Store manager had asked her to leave

    FORTUNE -- Where's Apple PR when you need them?

    In a story that's bound to be widely picked up, local TV news stations in New England were having a field day Wednesday with blurry cellphone video of a tiny 44-year-old Chinese woman being held to the ground and tasered outside an Apple Store by a pair MORE

    - Dec 12, 2012 11:38 PM ET
  • Roger McNamee: Android is a motor scooter on the Indy 500

    Elevation Partner's McNamee gives Google, Microsoft and Samsung a piece of his mind

    FORTUNE -- "I'm no Apple fanboy," says venture capitalist Roger McNamee before ripping into Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Twitter, Samsung and -- to a lesser extent -- Apple (AAPL) in a 21-minute interview with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton that's one for the quote book.

    A few choice sound bites:

    "Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. MORE

    - Dec 12, 2012 5:32 PM ET
  • Here's why Apple doesn't listen to its shareholders

    What do any of their concerns have to do with building great products?

    FORTUNE -- If Tim Cook needed further validation of Steve Jobs' policy of ignoring the needs and entreaties of Apple's (AAPL) shareholders, the results of the survey at right, released Wedenesday, could provide it.

    It comes from a recent luncheon in New York City with several dozen Apple investors that was hosted by Barclays analysts Ben Reitzes and Anthony DiClemente.

    If "the MORE

    - Dec 12, 2012 11:45 AM ET
  • Apple Store v. Microsoft Store: Picture of the day

    Century City Mall, Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, 3:30 p.m.

    FORTUNE -- For those who still bear the scars of last century's desktop wars between Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) we offer another in our series of contrasting store photos. This one was shot Tuesday afternoon by reader Howard Kaplan at Los Angeles' Westfield Century City Mall, half-way between Beverly Hills and Westwood, Calif.

    You can write your own caption.

    - Dec 12, 2012 10:52 AM ET
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  • Shaw Wu raises iPhone 5 estimates, lowers iPad mini

    Bottom line: Margins up, revenues down, earnings unchanged. The stock: who knows?

    FORTUNE -- Citing supply chain sources, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu fine-tuned his Apple (AAPL) estimates again Wednesday:

    He raised his iPhone unit sales estimates for this quarter to 47.5 million (from 47.3 million) based on improving yields and availability. (The iPhone 5 launched in Korea last Friday and lands in 50-plus more countries this Friday.)
    He lowered his iPad estimates to 23.5 million (from 25 MORE

    - Dec 12, 2012 8:27 AM ET
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  • Anything new in the Wall St. Journal's Apple TV story?

    Once again, the Journal has stoked the fires of Apple TV set speculation

    FORTUNE -- It's almost exactly a year since the Wall Street Journal sent shivers of anticipatory glee through the Apple (AAPL) investment community with a report on the company's "assault" on the TV business.

    That story, based on leaks from media executives who had asked Apple to brief them on its plans, suggested that Cupertino was pursuing two paths: MORE

    - Dec 12, 2012 7:51 AM ET
  • Apple's iPhone 5 is Time Magazine's 'Gadget of the Year'

    No. 1 in a list that includes two tablets, a thermostat, a couple cameras and a $35 PC

    FORTUNE -- Two Apple (AAPL) products made Time Magazine's list of the top 10 gadgets of 2012: The Retina MacBook Pro (No. 6) and the iPhone 5 (No. 1). Here's what Time's Harry McCracken had to say about the new iPhone:

    Apple may be responsible for more than its share of the tech industry's great leaps MORE

    - Dec 11, 2012 5:39 PM ET
About This Author
Philip Elmer-Dewitt
Philip Elmer-Dewitt
Editor, Apple 2.0, Fortune

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been following Apple since 1982, first for Time Magazine, and now on the Web for Fortune.com.

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