Apple’s Tim Cook never wanted to sue key supplier Samsung

As Steve Jobs went "thermo-nuclear" on clones, Tim Cook wanted to cool it.

800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says

By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use. 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone.

iOS 6 jailbroken: iPhone 5, iPad 4 can now live untethered to Apple’s ‘garden of pure ideology’

So you like your iPhone 5 or iPad 4, but want to live outside of the app store's "garden of pure ideology?" You're in luck: A group of hackers known as evad3rs has released the first jailbreak for iPhone 5, EvasiOn.

Apple becomes ‘most popular mobile vendor’ in global internet usage

But in spite of its strong showing, it's not all sweetness and light for Cupertino. Apple's share is not growing -- anymore -- so much as Nokia's is falling.

Year-old iPhone 4S spontaneously combusts and oozes acid, but Apple refuses to replace it, woman claims

New York marketing manager Shibani Bhujle says her iPhone spontaneously combusted, burning her fingers, and then oozed acid when she tried to remove the battery.

iPhone Plus: Why a big-screen iPhone isn’t really that crazy

It's inevitable that Apple will move beyond the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen -- the real questions are how and when.

Apple was the largest U.S. phone vendor in Q4 (but Samsung still ruled 2012)

Strong sales of the iPhone 5 helped push Apple to the top spot among U.S. phone vendors, reports the research firm Strategy Analytics.

iPhone users are happier and more loyal than Android owners (infographic)

Almost all smartphone users are happy with their phones, according to a new survey by Skype competitor Rebtel. But, sort of like the pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm, some users are more happy than others.

AT&T beats out Verizon with 8.6M iPhones sold in Q4, but it still posts huge $3.9B loss

AT&T trounced Verizon in iPhone sales, but that didn't help when it came to posting a profit.

How Apple’s 6 billion-dollar businesses stack up

Revenue from digital media is now almost worth more to Apple -- top-line revenue -- than all its iMac, MacBook and other Mac hardware sales.

Tim Cook on cheaper iPhones: We’ve done it before (with iPod)

Cook did offer a ray of hope to those who want a cheaper iPhone. But just a ray.

Apple stock sinks 10% in after-hours trading on ‘disappointing’ earnings

Despite record revenue and iOS sales reported in today's earnings report, Apple's stock has sunk a staggering 10 percent in after-hours trading.

Tim Cook: 500M iOS devices sold to date, 10 iOS devices sold per second in Q1

Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company has sold half a billion iOS devices to date and “sold 10 iOS devices per second” last quarter, he said today during Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call.

Apple posts record revenue, profit, and iOS device sales: Analysts still disappointed

For a company that is supposedly struggling, and whose stock price has shed tens of billions of dollars from its $700/share high in September of 2012, Apple did pretty well in the first quarter of 2013.

Apple sold 47.8M iPhones in Q1, missing analyst expectations

Apple missed the mark for iPhone shipments -- though it was still a healthy bump from last year.

AAPL Q1 2013: Apple’s first quarter earnings in 30 seconds or less

Apple reported its first quarter earnings for 2013 today.

Apple Q1 2013: can Apple make itself attractive to investors again?

The big question, however, is this: even if Apple has a stellar quarter, will it be enough to pull AAPL out of its stock market doldrums?

Is Apple really doomed?

As of Wednesday night the stock was down about 3 percent, after having been down as much as 5 percent. And over the past three months, it’s down 22 percent, equivalent to $130 billion in market cap.

63% of Verizon’s 9.8M smartphone sales last quarter were iPhones, 4M were iPhone 5s

Those are big numbers, but the even bigger implication is what this means for Apple's iPhone market share in the key U.S. market.