Certainly some of the techniques that Apple uses, you know, could be considered gimmicks.
In an uncharacteristically quiet announcement, Apple uses "gigahertz" in describing one of its computers.
Apple uses Foxconn and other such companies have included Pantech and Ningbo Bird among others.
Apple uses five companies located in Ireland to carry out its tax strategy, according to the Congressional report.
Apple uses a reseller model for its iTunes store, but manages its iPhone App Store as an MSP.
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For of course the company, Braeburn, that Apple uses to manage said cash is a subsidiary of Apple.
Apple uses copyright law to shut down unauthorized clones of its hardware products.
Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that Apple uses similar moves to sidestep billions in taxes.
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The solution that Apple stores recommend is iKlear, a non-toxic liquid cleaner, which its manufacturer Meridrew Enterprises says Apple uses on its own production lines.
Since Apple uses one unit of this particular component in each iPad, that adds up to shipments of 13 million iPads in the second half of 2010.
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Of course Apple uses and makes hardware too, consummate hardware.
Apple also uses escalations of commitment, starting with the entry level iPod, in an attempt to eventually take over every possible screen, from phone to TV.
To the uninformed, I would point out that Apple already uses ARM-based processors in its mobile devices, while sticking to Intel processors in Macs laptops and desktops.
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Apple even uses ARM-based processors in the iPhone and iPad.
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Just Mobile already has eight products in the Apple Store and uses CES to expand into the international market and meet clients.
Neither does it rely on map data from other companies like TomTom, as Apple does. (Apple maps actually uses data from Waze too).
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You cannot watch Steve Jobs unveil the iPhone in 2007 without wanting to blow up your standard PowerPoint (for the record Jobs uses Apple Keynote software but his presentation techniques apply to both PowerPoint and Keynote).
And a dessert of macaroons and field berries uses an apple mistelle (a fortified wine) from local cider producer Pedneault.
Health officials used dietary histories taken from the victims and genetic "fingerprinting" of the bacteria to trace the outbreak to a batch of unpasteurized apple juice that Odwalla uses as an ingredient in many of its mixed-fruit beverages.
Just as Apple has been very aggressive about how it uses patents, Nguyen seems to be very skilled and crafting patents geared to appeal to Apple.
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Apple prefers HTML5, which it uses in its new iAd platform for rich media ads on mobile devices.
But in iOS 6, it decided to ditch Google and create a new app that uses mapping data that Apple itself has assembled.
In a survey of over 700, 000 uses by FixYa, Apple scored top by a huge margin: nearly 3 times more that your beloved Samsung, 5 times more than Nokia and 27 times more than Motorola.
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Less likely would be an interface between Entourage and iChat, Apple's instant messaging software that uses America Online 's network.
The first is that China Mobile does indeed use a different 3G standard (TD-SCDMA, something which no one else uses) which means that Apple would have to produce a new model specifically for that network.
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No one uses mystery to beguile consumers better than Apple Chief Steve Jobs.
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Take another example that the senators pointed to: Apple, as do many other multinational companies, uses a technique called transfer pricing.
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In this spot, Microsoft uses sound to very different ends than Apple.
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Microsoft uses Rocky in Office 98 for the Apple Macintosh, for which over 25, 000 licences have been sold in the UK, and in some 500, 000 copies of the beta version of Office 2000.
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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