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it's Friday November second 2012 I'm ellis hamburger and it has been a long week this is 90 seconds on the verge the iPad Mini is now on sale at Apple stores Apple's 7.9 inch tablet has a fantastic design and build quality and can run any of the 275,000 ipad apps in the App Store the tablets priced at three hundred and twenty nine dollars which makes it clear that Apple isn't aiming for the lower price market where the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire reside this comes as no surprise though Apple hasn't exactly made itself known for shooting for the bottom of the barrel turns out Apple did revise its public apology to Samsung as requested by UK courts a print version of the letter appeared this week in the Daily Mail in the Guardian Apple originally posted an earlier version of the letter on its UK website with several paragraphs that the court deemed quote untrue the public apology is a consequence of Apple losing its patent infringement case against Samsung but apples quick to note that it won a similar case here in the US Microsoft surprised the world this year when it built its own Windows 8 computer hardware and phones could be next according to The Wall Street Journal Microsoft is currently testing a smartphone with Asian suppliers sources tell the verge that any so-called surf this phone if it exists would likely be deployed as a quote Plan B should windows phone 8 fail to gain significant traction windows phone 8 ships this month on a batch of new devices from HTC nokia and samsung that's it for today's top stories on a personal note hurricane sandy hit pretty close to home this week while we're all okay here at verge HQ not everybody was so lucky we'd encourage you to donate to the Red Cross if you want to help out see you next time