Apple product designs: Is the company losing its taste or saving the rabbit in the hat – Part 1

Apple, Inc. is running a hot streak of late with a series of successful ventures in the shape of iPhone 4S and the new iPad 3. Though these aforementioned products have piled up so much of cash for the company that it actually does not know what to do with it, it has attracted some criticism over the evolution of design in its product.

Apple recently struck stock market’s Mach II by reaching market valuation at $500 Billion. It is expected that the company might reach the Mach III at $1 Trillion by 2014 to 2015. However, despite all that success in the stock and consumer market, the company has been criticized over the same design that iPhone 4S and the new iPad have inherited from their respective predecessors.

The iPhone 4S is stupendously identical to iPhone 4 that made its first appearance in 2010. The new iPad towed the same line in design when Tim Cook revealed the device on March 7, the same design.

However, despite all the opprobrium, both device made record sales on their respective first weekends of launches. The iPhone 4S recorded sales of more than 4 million over the first weekend in October, 2011. The new iPad recorded more or less the same success with a whopping 3 million sales, making it most sold tablet over the first week of sales. This all happened despite the fact that both looked exactly the same as their forefathers.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, iPhone sales increased 128 percent over the same period in 2010, according to data released by research firm IDC. The firm identified the iPhone 4S, which was introduced on October, as the primary reason the company leaped over LG and ZTE in the fourth quarter, to become the world’s third largest maker of cell phones.

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