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iPhones and iPads top teen wish lists this Christmas

Only "money" and "clothes" scored higher in an annual pre-holiday survey

For 22 years, Piper Jaffray researchers have been asking American teenagers what they want for Christmas, and for the past four years Apple (AAPL) products have been moving steadily up the wish lists.

All told, according to a note to clients issued Monday by senior research analyst Gene Munster, 11.2% of the 5,700 teenagers surveyed this fall named one Apple product MORE

Asymco: Apple's ability to innovate is valued at $0.00

Judging from the stock price, the company is only as good as its last hit product

Asymco's Horace Dediu spent much a recent trip to London talking to dozens of buy-side analysts. Not to be confused with sell-side analysts, these are people who control trillions of investment dollars and never share their thoughts or strategies in notes to clients.

He came out of those meetings convinced that the investment thesis of the MORE

Poll: Apple's future is brighter than Google's or Facebook's

Republicans, Hispanics and young Americans ages 18-29 see it as particularly bright

A national survey of 1,066 registered voters conducted by Poll Position on Oct. 30, three and a half weeks after Steve Jobs' death, asked which of three high-tech companies -- Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) or Facebook -- had the brightest future.

As you can see by the results, Apple with 43.6% came out well ahead of Google (25.9%) and Facebook MORE

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* Bloomberg reports that Apple (AAPL) may be developing a television set sporting what Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson is "the simplest user interface you could imagine." Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts such a device could go on sale next year or in 2013. (Bloomberg)

* The "father of the iPod," MORE

Steve Jobs and Me: A journalist reminisces

Fortune contributor Brent Schlender shares some of the stories and personal photographs he collected during more than two decades as Steve Jobs' chronicler and confidant.

FORTUNE -- Most of us who wrote in depth about the brilliant career of Steve Jobs sooner or later came to realize that we were complicit in the making of a modern myth. You simply couldn't avoid it. And while it is true that Jobs was MORE

Steve Jobs: 'My worst and stupidest staging event'

Among the highlights of the excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs in the current issue of Fortune is the story of how Jobs repaired Apple's (AAPL) relationship with Microsoft (MSFT) just in time to get Bill Gates to participate in his 1997 MacWorld keynote. Jobs waited until the end to introduce, after a dramatic pause, Apple's new partner and investor. Suddenly Gates' face appeared, to boos and catcalls, on a giant screen.

"That was my MORE

Apple misses earnings. Stock punished in after-hours trading

Mac and iPad sales set new records, but iPhone sales disappoint

Apple (AAPL) reported disappointing results for its fourth fiscal quarter on Tuesday. Although the company handily beat its own guidance, it fell far short of the expectations of analysts and investors, who punished the stock in after-hours trading

Apple shares, which had closed the day at a record $422.24 amid hopes for an upside surprise, fell at one point more than MORE

Apple poised to report another record-breaking quarter

Setting the stage for a monstrous Christmas selling season

It's been a busy fortnight for Apple (AAPL), between the Let's Talk iPhone special event, the death of Steve Jobs, the launch of the iPhone 4S and Sunday's star-studded memorial service. Next week we'll get the worldwide laydown of  Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, the only biography written with Jobs' cooperation, launching another round of media overkill (starting with next Sunday's 60 Minutes).

But today is about MORE

Our Apple whisper numbers

We're averaging the Q4 estimates of the six analysts with the best track records 

The chart at right, which compares Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings for the past six quarters with estimates made in advance of those reports, shows that some analysts are better at predicting the company's results than others.

Specifically, a group of independent analysts we've been calling -- for lack of a better term -- "the bloggers," have consistently out-performed MORE

4 moves Apple must make now

The company will no doubt be reeling for the next few weeks. After that, it must maintain the dogged focus it's come to be known for.

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) is now the most valuable technology company in the world, a 12,000-strong organization nestled in Cupertino, Calif. with the exceedingly rare ability to alter the trajectory of an entire industry with a single product release. With Steve Jobs' passing, the onus MORE