Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, mobile communication and media devices, and portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, and direct sales force, as well as third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, resellers and value-added resellers. Apple's foray into the digital music industry includes its iPods and iTunes online store. In addition, Apple produces mobile phones, most notably the iPhone and its accompanying App Store. More recently Apple introduced its iPad, a tablet computer used for viewing audio-visual media. Apple also sells a variety of third-party Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and iPod compatible products including application and professional software, e.g., OS X, iLife, iWork, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones and various other accessories and supplies through its online and retail stores. Apple sells to consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, education, enterprise, government and creative markets. Apple's latest products include the  iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad 3, which all run on iOS. Source: SEC Filings

 

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DirecTV adds voice controls to iPhone app

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Dish fights slack subscriber growth with free iPads

After seeing subscriber growth slow in the first quarter, Dish Network said it will begin offering new customers who order its multiroom DVR a free iPad 2 next week.

Millennial Media: Android trumps iOS with 52% of Q1 mobile ad impressions

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Nearly one-third of U.S smartphone sales in the first quarter were on prepaid carriers, the highest on record, according to a report from the NPD Group. The statistic is another indication of prepaid's growing momentum in the smartphone market.

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AT&T Mobility is blocking video chat features integrated into Google's new Hangouts messaging service for Android.

Google paints Apple into a corner with latest mobile media moves

Google's Android long ago eclipsed Apple's iOS in terms of sheer size: Gartner reports that Android powers 74.4 percent of all smartphones sold worldwide during the first quarter of 2013, up from 56.9 percent during the year-ago period and widening its already considerable lead on iOS, which plummeted to 18.2 percent from 22.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012. But size isn't everything, and iOS has always maintained a number of competitive edges over Android.