Look, we're all for filling our iPhones with gigabytes upon gigabytes of stuff that would make us especially anxious to trigger the Remote Wipe feature if we were to misplace it, but we've got to admit -- the dude went about it the wrong way here, Apple caught him, the world keeps turning.
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LaCie's designs caught Apple's eye in the early 1990s, and the computer giant contracted with LaCie to manufacture external Apple-branded SCSI drives.
This early leader in mobile phones was caught off-guard when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and integrated mobile phones with its desktop OS, a difficult leap for non-PC players.
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The story caught fire across social media, and ended up getting more attention than the Apple event anyway.
Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
Basically state of the art Android has caught up with iOS and even surpassed it in the eyes of many except the diehard Apple fans.
Either Apple is really caught off guard by the demand for the iPad, or it has some supply chain issues.
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The notion of being able to sell on your unwanted digital goods is a concept that has caught the eyes of, among others, Amazon and Apple.
Dozens of companies were caught in the patent-net Eolas cast, and many including Apple had already settled out of court.
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But it fell behind when Apple introduced the Internet-friendly iPhone in 2007 and never caught up.
But astute investors will recognize the harsh reality that such a move would acknowledge that competitors have caught up with Apple.
Long ago, when Apple managed its own factories, precisely matching the waxing and waning demand of the market sometimes caught the company flatfooted.
But what also caught my eye was one of the supporting cast, a man who was probably second only to Steve Jobs in restoring Apple's fortunes after the co-founder's return to the company.
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