中国-国际利润差距在这段时期向0靠拢并且有一个显著的减少在2003年传播的差距观察。
The Chinese-IAS earnings gap heads towards zero across this period and there is a notable reduction in the spread of the gap observations by 2003.
称它以前决定开发的一项意在缩短与Google利润差距的新技术将被推迟，与此同时它的股价下跌了22％，这也是它股价跌幅最大的一天。
said that a new advertising algorithm that it had designed to close the gap in profitability will be delayed, and its share price fell by 22%, its biggest-ever one-day drop.
分析家不相信这个差距会持续下去：竞争者将继续追赶苹果，挤压其利润。
Analysts doubt that this gap is sustainable: competitors will continue to go after Apple and squeeze its margin.
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