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An iPad mini with Retina display could cost $12 more to build

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2013)

Hardware market research firm iSuppli has released a new report that claims the cost-per-device of an iPad mini sporting a Retina display screen could be fairly high: as much as $12 or more. Even if all of the other parts stay the same price, just adding a Retina display in the iPad mini's ...

Analyst: Flash memory makes MacBook Air more profitable than bigger laptops

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

We already know the MacBook Air is thinner than most laptops, but it turns out that the stack of money it makes Apple isn't. An analyst named Brian Marshall of Gleacher & Co. says that the flash memory in the MacBook Air is one of the big places that Apple makes its money on the machine, ...

Apple raking in the mobile profits

by Mel Martin (Sep 22nd, 2010)

While taking a look at the Fortune Magazine online tech blog, I saw some comments by Canaccord Genuity about Apple profits in the mobile market. They are a head-turner. Apple mobile profits are stunning, and they're even better when compared to the rest of the industry. The really interesting ...