Apple's dazzling 13-year surge ebbs as iPhone sales drop

San Francisco

FROM the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad, Apple created more than a decade's worth of new gadgets to fuel its historic growth.

But the technology company's dazzling 13-year run of quarterly revenue growth ended on Tuesday - a casualty of Apple's already immense size, weakness in key global markets like China and the lack of another hot product to pry open the wallets of customers.