Apple 2012: Smooth sailing, for the most part
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The company’s logo is seen on the Apple store in Washington October 6, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas

SAN FRANCISCO | Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:08pm EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.

But its very success – with the market-leading iPad and the voice-enabled iPhone 4S – is luring cheaper rivals to the surface.

Google Inc’s Android, launched a few years ago and taking aim squarely at the high-end iOS, continues to attract cellphone makers. Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle Fire, half the cost of the iPad, is expected to have chipped away at the lower end of the tablet market.

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APPLE which last year targeted Samsung’s Galaxy S2 tablet has set its legal sites on the Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

Apple has taken unbridge at the Nexus’s slide-to-unlock mechanism which it says is in breach of Apple’s claim to the technology.

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