The resulting delays and complexities have left the door wide for Apple to dominate the U.S. retail music market.

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Even though Hulu came off the auction block last month, Apple might be wary of opening the door to Google.

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What scares me about Apple is the competition is comfortably capitalized and knocking on the door.

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So it seems that Apple will be sharing data with the publishers and that opens the door for advertisers to get the data they need.

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Behind door number one: collaboration with technology companies such as Amazon and Apple.

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He flew up to Seattle to do what most thought was an unthinkable deal with Microsoft (MSFT) and his past nemesis Bill Gates to get Apple a much-needed lifeline of cash to keep the wolves from the door.

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Over the past few years, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Intel have all hired former top FTC staffers, spinning the revolving door that fuels the growth of lobbying.

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The company, and the market, pays as much attention to the fanfare there as they do the lines out the door here in the U.S. to buy the latest and greatest Apple gadget.

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Speculation has been rife about why Apple is showing iOS software chief Scott Forstall and John Browett, head of Retail, the door.

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He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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