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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