"I don't know whether Amazon will be able to compete with Apple head-to-head on hardware sophistication, " she said.
Recently, Samsung has taken Apple head-on in its marketing for its Galaxy smartphone, with commercials that mock Apple enthusiasts.
Both HP and RIMM tried to challenge Apple head-to-head rather than in segments.
Because instead of taking Apple head on, each has decided to target its own specific niche within the tablet industry.
So if we are talking about a battle between the two then it is definitely Apple going head to head with Android.
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.
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.
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"I don't have the exact figure, but it's a lot, " said Apple's head of tax operations.
"These old technologies are holding us back, " Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, told CNN sister publication Time.
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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One man refused however and, as a punishment, Gessler forced him to shoulder a crossbow and shoot an apple off the head of his own son.
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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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.
While the press has mentioned heated tensions between Forstall and others at Apple, as head of iOS software that helped make the iPhone, iPad and iPod such breakout products, one has to speculate as to where Forstall is likely to wind up next.
We have a cultural picture in our head of Isaac Newton as an upstanding British gentlemen who discovered gravity by having an apple fall on his head.
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However, if the Nasdaq takes a blow to the head, Apple will get the down draft.
Sure, of course, Apple building a new head office will indeed boost the US commercial property market.
SanDisk didn't even attempt to go head-to-head with Apple's flagship hard-drive iPod player, as Microsoft did with the Zune.
Apple has ousted its head of retail just in time for the holidays.
Previously I wrote here on Forbes about a sell signal on Apple arising from the head and shoulders pattern.
This former retailing head of Apple was on the podium at the conference in his new role of CEO of J.
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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.
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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However, Forbes suggested the introduction of KNOX allows Samsung to go head to head with Apple in the enterprise, and point to its features that are not available on the iPhone.
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This site, and many other across the internet will be full of memories about Steve Jobs today, and just how much he achieved and how many lives he impacted as the founder and head of Apple.
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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He appeared with Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Head of Tax Operations Phillip Bullock.
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