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Apple is expected to answer back with dual-core iPads and iPhones using custom chips of its own, but its once a year update cycle makes it unlikely that it will have quad-core designs until mid-2012.

Thanks Ernest. Having used an iPad, I can say without doubt that I won't get one; the speed with which it operates is startling, and the interface is intuitive, but the screen's too effin' small. Period. I wound up holding it six inches from my face so I could make out what I'd surfed up off the wireless hotspot in my friends' condo.

However, anyone who thinks Apple will fall behind in this segment -- which has become extraordinarily important to the company -- has a halide and hydroponic pot farm somewhere in their house. :')