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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Analyst: Apple's iOS widens Web traffic lead over Google's Android

Apple's iOS continues to generate significantly more U.S. mobile Web traffic than Google's rival Android mobile operating system, fueling the opinion that iPhone and iPad users are more engaged with their devices than consumers across other mobile platforms, investment bank Piper Jaffray reports.

Apple's iron grip on mobile accessory market starting to slip

Apple's grip on the mobile accessories market appears to be loosening, according to a  New York Times  report, which could cut into the royalties that accessory makers pay Apple.

Apple extends App Store clampdown to more discovery services

Apple is expanding its App Store guidelines to restrict third-party iOS applications that allow users to recommend apps to their friends, PocketGamer reports.

Growing pains: Auto login driving advances in TV Everywhere authentication

Comcast saw a backlash from both TV critics and subscribers in 2009, when its first TV Everywhere service, Fancast Xfinity Online, debuted. The service forced customers to install an application on their computers called Comcast Access before they could watch full-length episodes of programs. How far have authentication services come since then?

Report: Potential malware identified in Apple's App Store

An iOS game available for download from Apple's App Store contains an embedded Trojan horse, Macworld reports.

U.S. Cellular changes course, will offer iPhone later this year

U.S. Cellular will launch Apple products, including the iPhone, later this year, reversing its earlier position. The company said in 2011 that it would not launch the iPhone because it did not make financial sense.

Report: Apple's iOS 7 will ship on schedule despite sweeping changes

Insiders say Apple will ship its overhauled iOS 7 mobile operating system on schedule, contradicting a Bloomberg report contending that dramatic software changes could wreak havoc on the computing giant's roadmap.

Report: Apple's iOS 7 driving aggressive in-car integration push

Apple's is accelerating efforts to integrate its iOS software and services into in-car infotainment systems.

Report: Apple's iOS 7 introduces 'flat' UI, ditches skeuomorphism

Apple's forthcoming iOS 7 mobile operating system overhaul will introduce a revamped "flat" user interface that eliminates longtime iOS design hallmarks like gloss, shine and skeuomorphism, 9to5Mac reports.

Kantar: Windows Phone gains ground on Android, iOS in Q1

Microsoft's Windows Phone fueled 5.6 percent of smartphones sold in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2013, up from 3.7 percent in the year-ago quarter, narrowing the gap on Google's Android and Apple's iOS, research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reports.