"I don't know whether Amazon will be able to compete with Apple head-to-head on hardware sophistication, " she said.
Both HP and RIMM tried to challenge Apple head-to-head rather than in segments.
The Korean company was a sponsor of Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast, and it and Apple went head-to-head with big advertising buys during the broadcast.
SanDisk didn't even attempt to go head-to-head with Apple's flagship hard-drive iPod player, as Microsoft did with the Zune.
Adding a lower-end phone would allow Apple to compete head-to-head with the growing number of cheap Android-based smart phones both in the U.S. and in Asia and other markets.
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Recently, Samsung has taken Apple head-on in its marketing for its Galaxy smartphone, with commercials that mock Apple enthusiasts.
In other words, if it wants to go head-to-head with Apple, or any other serious contender (are there any?) in the smartphone, tablet, or even the nascent Internet TV arena, the battle must be brand-led, not business led.
In a head-to-head battle with Apple, Microsoft is fighting with one arm tied behind its back.
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In doing so, Apple would compete head-to-head with Sony (NYSE: SNE), Panasonic (NYSE: PC), Sharp, Vizio and other TV manufacturers.
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While Apple and Samsung go head-to-head in the mobile melee, Vizio has leapt ahead in the HDTV market by staying put.
How should we look at what Google did better, and should we expect to see it head for an Apple-type level of execution?
The word is that Tim Cook attended an "informational" meeting with Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine and "expressed interest" in his business model -- whatever that is -- and that Apple's head of Internet products, Eddy Cue, was also present.
Research in Motion may have had a five-year head start on Apple, but they failed to build out a developer community and made the BlackBerry platform too complex for third-party developers.
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Stephen Baker, an analyst at research firm NPD, said Google is "certainly out in front of a number of trends that will be impacting the market, " but the Chromebook Pixel's price tag was "a big jump" from the earlier generation of Chromebooks and the Chrome operating system doesn't appear ready to compete head-on with Apple laptops or those powered by Windows 8.
One of the first strategic alliances, which kick-started this phenomenal head-over-heels rush, was the joint venture between Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and IBM, called Taligent.
Whatever your preference in smartphones, most credit Apple for turning the traditional manufacturer-carrier relationship on its head.
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Why is iRobot, purveyor of the Roomba and Scooba home-cleaning robots, making a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head?
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The main reason for paying attention to the head-and-shoulders pattern in Apple is because a large number of other investors trade on this pattern.
Sony intends to compete head-on with Microsoft as well as Apple.
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Apple marketing head Philip Schiller also unveiled a new version of a 15-inch MacBook Pro, which he said will feature up to seven hours of battery life.
The daily chart of Apple Inc. ( AAPL) appears to be forming a reverse head-and-shoulders bottom formation.
Jobs persuaded the head of Pepsi-Cola, John Sculley, to join Apple as C.
One warning worth noting: momentum is a fickle mistress, and there are surely some Apple investors waiting on an earnings-related pop to take some money off the table or head for the exit.
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Head to head with the Apple TV, the only downside we see is that audio is stereo-only and not 5.1, but we're super-picky like that.
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That move makes sense for Apple, which in the last year has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to go head-to-head with rival Google in the mapping space.
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