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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Apple Inc. blew past Wall Street's forecasts for its fourth-fiscal quarter as earnings soared on strong sales of the company's iPhone 4 and iPad. For the quarter, Apple /quotes/comstock/15*!aapl/quotes/nls/aapl (AAPL 317.90, -0.10, -0.03%) reported net income of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per share, compared to net income of $2.53 billion, or $2.77 per share, for the same period the previous year. Revenue jumped 67% to $20.34 billion. Analysts were expecting earnings of $4.10 per share on revenue of $18.9 billion, according to consensus estimates from FactSet Research.