 It's Friday, November 2nd, 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 tablet's priced at $329, which makes it clear that Apple isn't aiming for the lower priced 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 and 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 Apple's 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 Surface 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. And 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.
 It's Friday, November 2nd, 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 tablet's priced
 at $329, which makes it clear that Apple isn't aiming for the lower priced 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 and 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 Apple's 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 Surface 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.
 And 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.