Apple's sellling gadgets like the iPad on price as much as on features

 When Apple unveils the next version of the iPad on Wednesday, the tech world will be focused on its new features.

But don't let the bright and shiny new gadget distract you from a bigger story: The company known for premium prices has very quietly been driving down the price of its products.
And if Apple continues to pull off this trick without sacrificing profits, competitors are going to have an even harder time catching up to the Cupertino company in the smartphone and tablet markets.
What crystallized this for me was a note published Monday by Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein Research. He talked to several Apple executives, including Tim Cook, the acting CEO. Sacconaghi quoted Cook as saying he didn't want Apple products to be "just for the rich." And Cook said the company was spending a lot of time trying to understand the Chinese phone market, where he noted most customers still use the low-cost method of prepaying for phone services.
Cook didn't officially confirm the company was developing a low-cost phone. But his remarks all but signaled Apple's move in that direction.

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Google Facts

1.Google’s famous homepage “Doodles” (the changing Google logo graphics) are well known and enjoyed by millions around the world as a way to mark an event or anniversary. But did you know that the very first Google Doodle was designed as a kind of “out of office” message?

In 1998 Brin and Page took the weekend off to go the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The Burning Man doodle (shown above), was designed by the Google guys and added to the homepage to let their users know they were out of office and couldn’t fix technical issues like a server crash.

2. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.
update:It was a typo on the first investment check they received.Also the domain name “googol.com” was already taken

3.The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

4.Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica. 

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22 Facts Between Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates

1. Both are very proficient software programmer.
2. Both are billionaires.
3. Both founded the company at the very young age of 20+.
4. Both build fortune through the computer world. Gates built a new platform (DOS and Windows) and Zuckerberg are creating one now.
5. Both have stolen ideas for software applications or developments from others.
6. Zuckerberg and Gates are left out from Harvard University.
7. Zuckerberg and Gates are nerd.
8. Both are not really handsome.
9. Zuckerberg and Gates have been facing copyright issues and legal disputes.
10. The applications or software they built changed the IT world.
11. They are both identified as jerks in respect to their social life.
12. Both paid large sums of money to end lawsuits.
13. These individuals are of the type “love ‘em or hate ‘em”.
14. The two of them are quite intelligent and finished school with honors.
15. Both skipped classes at the university to work on their personal projects and later, to catch up with the rest of their classmates, had to do some ‘intensive burst study’ sessions.
16. Zuckerberg and Gates are famous amongst public opinion for being egoists, ruthless, opportunists, thiefs and devious. Also are suspect of using shrewdly predatory and unethical tactics against their counterparts.
17. Both get idea and drive by the opposite sex. Zuckerberg created the initial Facebook application to get laid with woman. Bill delivered himself a MAC application to hook up with a woman and at high school created a program to schedule students in classes, after that he modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. Probably there is some true in “everything men do is to hook up woman”. Hahaha!
18. Both were very lucky at their business. A certain number of circumstances played to their favor.
19. Both come from upper-middle class families.
20. Microsoft invested 240 million of dollars on Facebook, making Zuckerberg and Gates business partners.
21. Both of them wrote their first computer programs while attending high school.
22. The two of them scored an almost perfect score on the SAT.

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