Apple Sells More Phones Over the Weekend Than BlackBerry Did Last Quarter

Apple Inc. iPhone 5c devices are displayed during the launch at the company's store in Palo Alto, Calif. on Sept. 20, 2013. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Just about the only thing Apple and BlackBerry still have in common is that they're both named after fruit.

On Friday, when Apple fanatics were lined up outside stores around the world for the release of the new iPhones, BlackBerry said it would cut 4,500 jobs and write down as much as $960 million in its fiscal second quarter