By limiting carrier choices, Apple has given competing products an easier entrance into the market.
Apple has without question been the de facto consumer-technology juggernaut of the new millennium.
As panel yields have improved, Apple has been able to reduce orders, he says.
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Apple has been focused on a strategy of promoting iPhone 4 to the Indian market.
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Unlike, say, Hewlett-Packard, Apple has always been a company that deals poorly with failure.
Now that Apple has upgraded its customer base it has no place to go.
Apple has been put on a pedestal and no one expects them to dominate anything.
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Meanwhile the trend in smartphones is towards lower cost, a trend Apple has resisted, so far.
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Apple has been so innovative because Jobs takes major risks, which is rare in corporate America.
One country where Apple has a favourable tax regime is the Republic of Ireland.
Over the past few years, Apple has accumulated an insurmountable number of lawsuits.
Apple has iTunes but in the end, that may hardly compete with Amazon and Google.
This marks the second time in three months that Apple has celebrated an iTunes milestone.
His company may never achieve the level of international success that Apple has attained.
This will mark the second time in three months that Apple has celebrated an iTunes milestone.
With the release of an iWatch, Apple has the potential to at least regain previous highs.
But it also seems that the official line towards Apple has softened very rapidly.
Thus far, Apple has not released any of the iPad models during the summer.
Apple has also neglected to provide any sales figures beyond the opening weekend numbers.
But the 451 Group's Greg Quick argues that Apple has helped push down flash prices.
After four albums in sixteen years, Apple has racked up maybe five bad songs, total.
Apple has never entered the mature phase, and may not do so for quite a while.
Instead, Apple has reserved its tablet releases for the first, second and fourth quarters.
Apple has declined to comment, and Cheyer's LinkedIn profile still shows him as an Apple employee.
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Apple has tried (and mostly succeeded) in breaking every link to other tech players.
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And then, the Pixel has a feature that Apple has put on no Mac: a touchscreen.
The big win so far for Apple has been the patent case in California.
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Apple has been on a roll for, well, almost as long as we can remember.
To be fair, Apple has shown a smidgen of market share growth as of late.
Quality control failed because Apple has so much secrecy that it cannot deal with kids.
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