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"credits" : "JOHN SOPINSKI, SEAN SILCOFF and CHRISTOPHER MANZA/THE GLOBE AND MAIL",
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"tabLabel": "THE FINANCIALS",
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"headline1": "Soaring revenue",
"text1": "Apple's revenue has exploded in the past four years on the surging popularity of its iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet. Their success has even helped to push up sales of its Mac computer to record levels - while supplanting sales of the declining iPod music player, which began the company's renaissance a decade ago.",
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"tabLabel": "THE GEOGRAPHY",
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"headline1": "Global expansion",
"text1": "The Americas represent Apple's largest market, although Japan was the company's fastest-growing region in the first quarter. Growth in Europe, which accounted for close to one-quarter of sales, was up 55 per cent, as the continent's citizens took time out from fretting about the economic crisis to buy more Apple products, like everyone else.",
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"text2": ""
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"tabLabel": "THE SALES",
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"headline1": "Rise of the iPhone",
"text1": "The backbone of Apple's explosive growth has been the iPhone, introduced in 2007. The smartphone got a boost in 2011 with the launch of the 4S model - which includes a personal digital butler known as Siri - and accounted for more than half of revenue in Apple's historically strong "Christmas" first quarter, ended Dec. 31.",
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