Here are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Wednesday: iPad Mini in
2012? Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) knows all too well that if you have a successful
gadget on the market, the best way to make it even more successful is to make it
smaller and cheaper. That was the thinking that propelled the iPod to
zeitgeist-defining success last decade when the original model was coupled with
the tiny, cheap iPod Nano. If analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities is
right, that strategy will be applied to the iPad line next year. According to a
report at Apple Insider , meetings with component suppliers in China have led
the analyst to predict Apple will release a cheaper model of its iPad next year
in the mid-to-high $200 range. The device will be positioned as a competitor for
Amazon s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) recently announced Kindle Fire tablet. iCloud Opens for
Business with iTunes in the Cloud: A report at Mac Rumors said Apple began
opening its iCloud businesses on Wednesday morning. The first of these is iTunes
in the Cloud, a service that lets iTunes customers re-download any past music
purchases made through the store on any device that supports iTunes. Although
the service hasnt started in the United States as of this writing, it is
available in Mexico, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Australia and France. Apple is
expected to open all iCloud services for business between Wednesday and the
release of the iPhone 4S on Friday. Use the iPhone to Make T-Mobile Calls:
T-Mobile has very craftily insinuated itself into the iPhone business even
without officially carrying the line of phones on its network. A Wednesday
report at TUAW said T-Mobile has released an app for the iPhone and iPad called
Bobsled. Bobseld is a web-based service not unlike Microsoft s (NASDAQ: MSFT )
Skype. Users can make phone calls and send text messages to other Bobsled users.
The app and services are free at the moment, but T-Mobile has announced that it
plans to begin charging for Bobsled at some point in the future. As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
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