PlugBug uses the clever trick of attaching to any Apple MacBook Power Adapter by replacing its attached plug or extended power cord.
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The Apple professional Power Mac line that Hollywood studios would use has gross margins of around 30%, compared with the iMacs aimed at consumers, which have margins of just 20%.
If the Android market challenge to Apple fades in 2012, the negotiation power Apple possesses with its component vendors may start to resemble the chokehold Nokia had back in 2007.
If Windows Phone 8 (or indeed any other smartphone ecosystem at all) manages to make the market a tripartite one, Windows, Apple and Android, then the negotiating power of Apple is almost certain to decline.
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Nor is Amazon likely to achieve anything near Apple's power over the music industry.
The technology was used in some versions of Apple's Power Mac G5 desktop computer, released in 2004.
Sharp has already won a contract with Apple to provide power-efficient screens for the iPhone 6 in 2012.
Gracenote's MusicID product also helps to power Apple's Genius service, which scans your songs and compiles playlists based on any chosen artist.
The boxy beige Macintosh sold well, but Jobs clashed frequently with colleagues, and in 1986, he was ousted from Apple after a power struggle.
Other players in Hollywood, however, were growing wary of Apple's power.
Then, in 1985, Jobs left Apple amid a power struggle with former Pepsi CEO John Sculley, who he had courted himself to come on board.
Apple knows the power of social networks and music.
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For nearly one year, rumors of Apple finally giving developers the power to create apps for the current Apple TV have led to widespread speculation.
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Apple Computer announces faster Power Macs, sharpens its flat-panel displays and slashes prices on both.
These are just a couple of things that show the buying power of Apple customers.
The company is too big and sells too many laptops and desktop PCs to succumb to the power of Apple.
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To fend off Amazon's potential monopoly power, Apple and publishers might have manufactured their own monopoly mojo and forced Amazon into their world.
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He was able to use his position of power within Apple to both energize innovation project teams, set them loose, and then, if necessary, protect them.
Since Jobs would never allow anyone as capricious, autocratic, and stubborn as himself anywhere near the seat of power at Apple, his principal executives have molded themselves to him.
This world has enough clout and money floating around that no one company s ever going to have the kind of power that Apple needs to maintain its aesthetic.
Yet juggling that code is becoming a touch trickier, as is the fact that different versions of Apple's software power its desktop computers and its new line of smart phones.
But currently Apple has huge market power as we can see from that greater subsidy they are able to extract (sure, the subsidy is directly to the consumer but the effect is that Apple can charge more for its hardware) number there.
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But the environmental group, which has pressured tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook to power their clouds with clean energy, also took the opportunity to take a swipe at Microsoft, which was slammed in The New York Times series for its data center practices.
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Since at least last September there have been rumors about whether Apple has tapped wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm to power cellular baseband in next generation of Apple iOS devices, namely iPhone 5 and iPad 2.
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The concerns about Apple's potential market power helped sway the five commissioners against blocking Google's deal.
Griffin introduces two new power solutions for Apple, Samsung, Android and Kindle devices, complete with Charge Sensor technology: PowerBlock Universal and PowerJolt Universal.
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In an important sense that means we are already moving beyond the smartphone into a broader lifestyle computing category that Apple and Samsung have the power to define.
And rather than preside from the dining room table, he will lead his family to the den, where they will follow the Seder on a widescreen TV, using Apple's equivalent of Power Point.
In Mr. Zabitsky's view, Apple will lose its pricing power as mobile Web browsers become more powerful, because users will no longer need phones and tablets that support a large universe of specialized programs.
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