Apple crushes forecasts again, iPad backlogged

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s results  smashed Wall Street’s expectations after iPhone and Mac sales  scaled new heights while iPad supplies could not keep up with  roaring global demand.

Shares of the world’s most valuable technology corporation  rose 3 percent after it said a record 18.65 million units of  the category-defining iPhone — its flagship product — moved  in the March quarter, outpacing the 16 million or so expected.

Apple sold just 4.69 million iPads — which command an 80  percent share of a burgeoning tablet market in which Motorola  Inc and Samsung Electronics also