It was just last week, however, that Apple put the finishing touches on a series of deals with the music industry that will reportedly allow Apple to host its users music on its own service, making it available to them wherever they go.
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He expects that Apple will launch a new series of iPhones aimed a more cost-conscious buyers.
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Sony even delivered the high-end, ultraportable PC, much like what some had predicted from Apple, with the Vaio Series P notebook.
Almost 30 years ago, using a series of networked Apple II computers, I started doing research and began writing about divergence analysis.
While Steve Jobs has made Apple relevant again with a series of splashy surprises, such as the iPhone, the Hewlett-Packard chief executive's approach is even more intimidating.
Apple has been involved in a series of patent disputes with rival firms.
In the December series of options, Apple sports call open interest of 245, 428 contracts versus put open interest of 243, 170 contracts.
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Then he returned to Apple in 1997 and made a series of decisive choices that steered the company away from insignificance back into the center of the digital computing and entertainment world.
Apple agreed last year to ditch a series of patent lawsuits.
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Chances are most readers have seen several of the 'Switch' series of television commercials from Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), stock of the month for December.
Unlike the Dell Adamo and the Sony VAIO X, which both seemed to try too hard to look like Apple's MacBook Air, the Series 9's deep black case and sharp angled edges give it a seriously distinct look.
He worked at Apple for a while, then tried a series of startups.
Nokia Lumia series is successfully competing with both Apple iPhones and Google Android based devices.
Apple is its biggest bugaboo, but Apple may be on the verge of a series of challenges.
Apple is a serious technology innovator with a series of outstanding products that have changed the computing landscape forever.
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The Times, which had separately published a series of its own articles about Apple's factories, said it stood by those.
Mansfield was named to head a new Technologies group in October, part of a series of management changes led by Apple CEO Tim Cook after the company was criticized for the new Maps app in its iOS mobile software.
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Targeting the education market, Apple and Oracle said they will launch a seminar series promoting the technology in the top 100 colleges and universities.
With Apple offering already offering iPod users over 500 TV series and with 120m TV shows sold to date, it could be the firm that heralds the newly portable video age.
Like Apple, Walmart is finally fighting back with a rare series of media interviews aimed to show how the company is still expanding in China.
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Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey has been hugely popular for Apple - season two was the best-selling TV series on iTunes last year.
Apple has run out of logical reasons to not begin a series of progressive dividend increases.
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The series of laptop computer fires that led Dell and Apple to recall 5.9 million Sony-made battery packs this summer were sparked by those same lithium ion batteries.
All these systems connect through a series of wires and cables and are controlled by an Apple Mac G4.
The broadcast was followed by a series of articles in the New York Times looking at Apple's working practices and production methods.
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The pressure is on for Nokia to produce a knock-out series of phones through its partnership with Microsoft, as Apple and Samsung continue to gnaw into its dominant worldwide marketshare.
It is the latest move in a series of legal proceedings that started in October when Nokia sued Apple.
Secondly, Apple Computer's history was not a narrative line, but a series of circles in which the company repeated the same victories and disasters over and over.
Certainly other players have stolen a good deal of the Rio's light, notably the Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod series of players that have their own devoted fans.
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