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Strong iPhone and Mac sales and the continued dominance of Apple’s iPod drove the company to deliver a new record March quarter in revenue and profit. Admitting these results, chief operating officer Tim Cook also confirmed iPad sales so far have “shocked” company execs. Asked how the iPad compares to netbooks, Cook said, “To me, it’s a no-brainer. It’s sort of 100 to 0. I can’t think of a single thing a netbook does well.” Returning to the results, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs said: “We’re thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever, with revenues up 49 percent and profits…

The iPad has only been out for a while but there are already rumors of a new version in the works. According to a rumor on DigiTime, Apple is hoping to add an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen to the next version of the iPad that will use the same design concept as the iPhone 4G. This might seem like a cool idea right now but it will probably up the price of the iPad. DigiTime says that the cost of OLED panels will drop by 2011 but there is no guarantee to this. Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo said that the price for the 9.7-inch LCD panel for iPad is about US$60-70, whereas the price for a 9.7-inch…

Nope. While it does have the Apple branding on it, we are certain that this thing is nothing more than a Chinese knock-off that has a cute design. It is supposedly called the “Leady Apple” (maybe Google Translate is having a very bad day), and it looks like a blend between a mirror and phone. But don’t be fooled by the Apple logo and iPhone branding on the back side of this phone. Again, we are sure Apple wouldn’t venture so far out there with a design like this. (We are also sure that every news publication on Earth would have caught wind of this.) What is admirable, however, is the round design and the round…

At any point over the last year, you could be forgiven for momentarily thinking the sheen had come off Apple. A slew of criticisms arose, of the kind that would have severely damaged most companies. Among them: the App Store has been widely critiqued for its closed nature and arbitrary approval process. Apple has been slammed by Adobe and others for refusing to incorporate Flash, and instead trying to kill it in the process. To make matters worse, many have spoken out against Apple’s obsession with secrecy, blase approach to workers’ rights in China or their notoriously uncommunicative nature….

So, remember those iPhone 4G pics that we thought were real and then turned out to be false? Yeah well, those are now pretty much confirmed as real. How do we know? Gizmodo have managed to acquire a prototype iPhone 4G that was lost in a bar in Redwood City in California. After playing with phone, the folks at Giz feel pretty confident claiming it’s actually the next iPhone. Not only does it display the kind of fit and finish you’d expect from an Apple product, a breakdown of the device also shows that it uses Apple components, which is pretty conclusive evidence. On top of this, certain rumors we’ve already…

Sprint, the George Bush of US wireless carriers has announced a new product it hopes will catapult it to the front of the mobile market. It’s an iPad case. Clearly not put off by the fact that AT&T has exclusive rights to the iPhone, and Verizon is the only other network ever mentioned as a contender to this throne, Sprint hopes to maintain relevance by simply being able to use the word ‘iPad’ in one of it’s product names. The stylish case has a pocket on the front to hold a Sprint Overdrive portable wifi hotspot device, a tenuous link at best. In an even greater display of advertising smarts, the case…

Engadget’s iPhone 4G photos are NOT genuine, according to a Mac Rumors reader. The device is apparently a Japanese clone, despite looking nothing at all like any existing iPhone design. The phone has almost identical markings on the rear to the iPhone, but has square corners not rounded edges. Andy Ihnatko chimed in last night, casting doubt upon the validity of the phone. “And does this even look like an Apple product? Every Apple mobile device — from MacBooks to iPods, with iPhones and iPads in between — belongs to the same style family.” Apple nerds will simply have to wait until June or July…

People in Israel are still reading their newspaper the ‘old fashioned way’ as the iPad has been banned throughout the country. According to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, american Wi-Fi technology is broadcasted at a higher signal than is allowed in Israel and Europe. They say that the iPad could potentially interfere with other wireless technology and could pose potential security risks. Application developers are at a stand still because they have no legal way to get their hands on an iPad. Taken from the Huffington Post: Amnon, a software developer who legally brought an iPad…

Afraid of losing your concert tickets before the show? Apple has an app for that in the works. Apple has just come out with a detailed patent for a new application that will allow customers with an iPhone to buy concert tickets. The application may be called “Concert Ticket+”, according to the patent filing, and it works with Apple and iTunes to get rid of paper tickets. The application is designed to improve the process of buying tickets and will offer access to live recording of concerts you have attended, to theme parks and other big events. It will also let you know of any upcoming concerts that…

Despite living thousands of miles apart and belonging to astronomically different tax brackets, it turns out that Steve Jobs and I share a hobby:  the Apple TV. Apple’s idea of having a hobby is to release a set-top box that offers an increasing degree of functionality through ongoing software upgrades. Apple TV remains tantalizingly under its potential (no 1080p support, a paltry 160GB hard drive capacity, a USB port that can’t be used for anything even though the device desperately needs external storage capability and no TV input capabilities). I have three Apple TVs throughout the house…