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Big iPhone sales expected to highlight 57% Apple profit jump

The iPhone 4S is expected to be the star in Apple Inc. ’s profit report on Tuesday for its fiscal first quarter, the period in which co-founder Steve Jobs died.

Analysts are projecting a 57 percent year-to-year jump in earnings to $10.07 on a 45 percent increase in revenue to $38.76 billion.

This would be a stark contrast to the previous quarter in which the company fell short of analyst expectations on revenue because of delays in introducing the new iPhone, which didn’t happen until October.

But Apple is projected to post record sales of both the new smartphone and the iPad, with analyst Michael Walkley at Canaccord Genuity for example predicting that 30.5 million iPhones and 13 million of the tablets were sold.

Sales of the iPad may have been even higher, if not for new competition from Amazon.com Inc. ’s $199 Kindle Fire. A report last month said that Apple’s share of the tablet market had fallen from 69.7 percent to 65.6 percent.

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Wozniak: iPhone Could Learn From Android

Apple co-founder says Google’s mobile platform outperforms iOS in key areas like battery life, navigation, and voice assistance.

Steve Wozniak may have co-founded Apple along with Steve Jobs, but the serial tech entrepreneur apparently isn’t letting that cloud his judgment when it comes to evaluating new smartphone technologies.

In a candid interview sure to ruffle Apple fanboys, “Woz”said Google’s Android OS in many ways outperforms the iPhone’s iOS operating system.

“My primary phone is the iPhone,” Wozniak told The Daily Beast’s Dan Lyons. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.”

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