But the basic software that creates a framework for successfully navigating these content spaces may require a kind of intelligence that Apple does not yet possess.
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Jackson seems to think the First Amendment is a kind of loophole that gives Apple its warrant to produce its products.
Tablets are sure to become more widespread in educational settings, and a library of the kind Apple has amassed makes the iPad the logical choice.
And once the software is loaded up with a user's credit card, it acts as a kind of tollbooth, allowing Apple to charge for sales of everything from movies to music to mobile phone service.
The spate of new and appealing products marks Apple as a very different kind of company than others that have found success on different turns.
Although the third-generation iPad surprised many by gaining about half a millimeter of thickness, it looks like Apple could be back to trimming product dimensions by using a new kind of display technology in the next iPhone.
In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.
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On June 28, 2007, around the time Obama was crisscrossing the nation trying to secure the Democratic nomination, a different kind of phone was released with quite a hefty marketing budget, as Apple released its first iPhone.
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To be sure, it is kind of incredible that a business as big as Apple is can grow as fast as it has.
Now, however, Apple is pushing a new kind of pointing device.
You could write an article about how Apple is serving a new kind of soup in the cafeteria and there would be thousands of people who would click on the headline.
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One, the fact that Apple is spending that kind of cash on equipment flies in the face of the idea that Apple is basically a place that invents stuff in Cupertino and then outsources everything to the likes of Foxconn.
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Apple should do this kind of a deal, and I argued for it in April and then again last month.
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The fact is, packing that kind of processing down into a tablet that runs on batteries, is one more astonishing technical achievement on the part of Apple.
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There are 200, 000 apps in the Apple store, which is creating a new kind of business model for developers and opening somewhat the communications market.
Can Apple give this kind of assurance to a prospective buyer?
It is generally agreed that we are currently in a kind of design renaissance, spurred by the Volkswagen Beetle and the Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) iMac.
For anyone else, creating the kind of frenzy Apple is known for could be quite a challenge.
"This kind of blatant copying is wrong, " Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in a statement.
The Flashback Trojan that infected 700, 000 Macs at its peak earlier this month represents a rude awakening for Apple users who long believed their computers to be immune from the kind of malicious software that infects PCs.
Where analysts really miss the boat is in showing a little creativity to imagine new products Apple might roll out in the coming year and what kind of uptake those products will get from consumers.
While its product releases haven't sparked nearly the kind of fervor seen at Apple's iPhone launch events, Samsung is proving to be a formidable challenger at the top of the mobile-device market.
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