Lacche pitted the olive by using the same principle you'd use to peel an apple or an orange.

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Comparing Apple with Microsoft is like comparing an apple to an orange.

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The company is also developing apple- and orange-picking robots with multiple arms.

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Sometimes, you think you're investing in an apple but you get an orange.

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And there will be thousands of small vendors flogging pink and orange neon cases for Apple iPhones, powered laptop backpacks, and USB missile launchers.

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But, the main point of this rambling piece is not to confuse what our statistics are designed to measure and blame an orange for not being an apple.

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It took off and now Orange appears regularly on YouTube with friends Pear, Passion Fruit, Apple, Marshmallow, his antagonist Grapefruit, the reluctant Knife and many cameo foods.

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Apple is like the Nasdaq, is like yen, is like oil, is like orange juice, is like the euro.

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He wore shorts and an orange T-shirt, and had just dragged a friend of his in to check out Apple's laptops.

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