It's been six months since Apple released a major new product, and as Fortune recently noted, its fans may be growing restless.

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When asked to explain his sudden increase in wealth at a press conference soon after our annual billionaire rankings were published, he reportedly said, "The stock market goes up ... and down, " and noted that his fortune could quickly drop.

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As Laffer noted in a 1971 Fortune interview, "Thousands of people work days and nights to get those other models out, " and his study was one Nixon's top advisors incorrectly felt they could understand easily.

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Fortune's Phillip Elmer-Dewitt noted his findings, as well as a separate Deutsche Bank analysis in which 75 percent of Apple Stores surveyed said they'd sold out of the iPhone 4S by the end of the day Friday.

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In a world where there are still relatively few women in positions of power just 2% of Fortune 500 CEOs and 16% of boards of directors, as noted in Deborah Rhode and Barbara Kellerman's book "Women and Leadership" it is an understandable assumption that the rise of one would mean the ouster of another.

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