About 200 Apple-1 computers were produced, and they fetched substantially lower prices at earlier auctions.
People at the auction in London used some of these devices to document the Apple-1's sale, the Associated Press story notes.
The Apple-1 computer came with a typed note from Jobs as well as a box stamped with the company's original logo -- an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton.
Apple developed a 1-gigahertz processor called the A4 that powers the iPhone 4 and iPad.
Individual approval ratings have varied from VeriSign (nasdaq: VRSN - news - people ) CEO Stratton Sclavos ' all-time low of 1%, to Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) CEO Steve Jobs ' all-time high of 94%.
Strong sales of Macintosh computers sent Apple's quarterly earnings up 26.1% over the year-ago period, Apple reported Tuesday.
Apple was up 1% in pre-trading, and is doing fine just now.
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As The Guardian noted last month (via TUAW), IDC analyst David Daoud projected that sales of non-Apple tablet PCs would slip to 1.25 million units in 2010.
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Anyhow, Yair is sure that Apple will be releasing its 10.1-inch, multitouch tablet around March or April, with a ramp-up on production sometime in February.
On Monday, Apple reported it had already recieved 1 million pre-orders for the device.
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Apple's No. 1 fan, co-founder Steve Wozniak, has made a habit of joining the throngs.
Hewlett-Packard was down 1%, Apple fell 1.3%, Microsoft slid 1.4% and Intel decreased 0.9%.
Companies like Apple and Google have posted record-breaking profits despite 1.8% GDP growth in the country as a whole and a slowing global economy.
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The most common belief is that Apple will rely on a roughly 4- or 4.1-inch, 1, 136 x 640 display that would run legacy titles at their native resolution while supplying more space for the home screen, media and optimized apps.
"The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple, " Nicholas Negroponte says in the interview.
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On Monday, tech tracker Gartner took a flying leap of its own and predicted Apple will own precisely 47.1% of ridiculously fast-growing market for tablet computers in 2015.
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Mr. Market, not really understanding technology, thinks the only way for Apple to succeed is to release a new shiny gadget every 1-2 years.
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Take one school system looking to get rid of 1, 000 used Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) laptops.
Unit sales of the fourth-generation Apple smart phone for the quarter ending in September were 14.1 million, topping even optimistic forecasts.
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Smart-phones accounted for just 1% of the market, but Apple has been selling some 4, 000 iPhones a day, making South Korea one of the gadget's hottest markets.
As I noted earlier, Apple (AAPL) this morning said that this week it will top the 1 million unit mark for sales of its new generation Apple TV set-top box.
Sales of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) computers rose to 1.76 million units during its third quarter of the year, up 33% from the same period a year ago.
The 99-cent app already has become the No. 1 paid app in the Apple store.
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Its rival Apple - whose largest handset has a 4in screen - came in second with a 19.1% market share.
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Kenya's Peter Kamais ran 59:52 to win the men's race in the Big Apple, 46 seconds ahead of countryman Moses Kigen-Kipkosgei, with American Mohammed Trafeh third in 1:00:40.
But Google remains the second most important stock in fundamentals-driven hedge funds, given only slightly less weight than No. 1 favorite Apple, according to a Goldman Sachs ( GS) reports.
It calculates that the device, which Apple reports has sold 1.4 million units since its June 29 release, is the fourth-best-selling handset in America.
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