Tablets

Apple's 'fat' 128 billion-byte iPad: What analysts are saying

There's money to be made between a $699 64GB iPad and a $999 MacBook Air

FORTUNE -- What at first glance seemed like a ho-hum memory boost may have deeper implications for Apple (AAPL), its margins and its competitors.

Wells Fargo's Maynard Um: A 128GB fourth-generation iPad. "We believe the new device will be in addition to the current product portfolio and will fill a hole in the market for tablets with larger MORE

Chart of the day: A decade of Apple 'computer' sales

Why Apple is happy to cannibalize its own PC business

FORTUNE -- At the end of a post analyzing the factors that led to a 22% drop (16%, by weekly stats) in Mac sales last quarter -- the biggest decline in 10 years -- SplatF's Dan Frommer offers the chart above. It's a graph showing what a decade of Apple's (AAPL) computer sales would look like if -- as Steve Jobs MORE

IPad vs. Surface: Let the tablet war begin

Apple dominates tablet sales. Now Microsoft is going after the iPad head on.

FORTUNE -- Apple and Microsoft's relationship has had more twists and turns than Liz and Dick's. The two have been bitter rivals, vital partners -- even coolly indifferent. Microsoft's new Surface tablet could change things again. Apple's iPad has some 55% of the market. Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG) have largely offered cheaper alternatives to compete. But Microsoft MORE

4 moves Intel's next CEO must make

The tech giant faces difficulties ahead as the chip market changes. Here's what the company's next leader must do.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor

FORTUNE -- Anyone care to run an $54 billion-a-year tech giant? Anyone have any good ideas how to get it growing again? Intel is looking for a new CEO to take the reins at the Silicon Valley icon next May, when Paul Otellini steps down from the job.

Since Otellini became MORE

Why is shopping via iPad and iPhone outpacing Android?

A deeper look at the surge in Black Friday shopping by smartphone and tablet

FORTUNE -- One of the paradoxes of IBM's Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping report was that Apple (AAPL) mobile devices -- especially the iPad -- led the surge in online shopping, and not the Android devices that have been steadily gaining market share.

Over the weekend, Asymco's Horace Dediu took a closer look at IBM's data, which he's been tracking MORE

11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets

A survey compared sales at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in the Mall of America

FORTUNE -- On Saturday we posted side-by-side videos showing Black Friday shopping activity at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in Lone Tree, Colo. The videos left the impression that there was a lot less shopping going in the Microsoft Store.

Thanks to Gene Munster's team at Piper Jaffray, we can support that impression MORE

FBI arrests JFK worker in heist of 3,600 Apple iPad minis

Suspect reportedly helping detectives search Long Island for a truck full of stolen iPads

FORTUNE -- He's been called "bonehead," "Dumbfellas" and the "less-than-master-mind" behind the theft of 3,600 iPad minis Monday night from the JFK cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in "Goodfellas."

Court papers filed Friday in Brooklyn show that one Renel Rene Richardson has been arrested by the FBI and charged with acting MORE

Thieves grab 3,600 Apple iPad minis from JFK Airport

Beats waiting in line at the Apple Store, says the New York Post

FORTUNE -- A gang of thieves Monday night made off with 3,600 Pad minis that had just arrived at JFK Airport from China.

According to Thursday's New York Post, the gang struck shortly before midnight, using one of the airport's own forklifts to load two pallets containing 1,800 tablets each onto a tractor trailer. They might have made off with MORE

Analyst: iPad mini 'less cannibalistic' than expected

A survey suggests that Windows PCs, not 10-inch iPads, will be its primary victim

FORTUNE -- The day after the iPad mini was unveiled, Cowen's Matthew Hoffman wrote that he expected Apple's (AAPL) latest tablet to be "largely cannibalistic" -- eating directly into the sales of Apple's 10-inch iPad -- and he trimmed his iPad sales estimates accordingly.

But to be certain, he ordered a survey of 1,225 Americans to gauge their MORE

Apple posts its gift guide for the 2012 holiday season

Suggested gifts on Apple's online store range from $30 to $500

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) must think Americans are feeling pretty flush this holiday season. With only 10 days to go before the madness of Black Friday, it posted a holiday gift guide Tuesday featuring some pretty pricy presents.

Topping the page is the new iPad mini starting at $329. Given that Americans spent an average of $705 on presents last Christmas, MORE