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Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime -- but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another.
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Apple's products are mostly assembled in China, where the company has faced criticisms over working conditions.
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But I like Apple's take even better, mostly because of that slide-out right-hand panel.
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Apple's results also weighed on Asian markets, which ended mostly lower despite preliminary data showing manufacturing activity in China accelerated in January.
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That is to say, iPhone prices will continue to fall (again, we are talking mostly what carriers pay Apple, not what retail prices are in the U.S. although there are signs those are also slipping a bit on average).
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With luck, Jobs showed his continued interest in the game earlier in the day, when he indicated that Apple's iTunes was now on over 300 million computers worldwide, mostly Windows machines.
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