Investors are coming to a conclusion that Apple has difficulty in executing large scale data driven projects.

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Perhaps the problem is that the industry has difficulty generating economies of scale.

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Electric car makers have struggled with financing and profitability given the costs of developing new technology and difficulty achieving economies of scale.

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But the scale of the new distributed freelancer networks multiplies the difficulty of weeding out the bad elements by several orders of magnitude.

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These frivolous calculations illustrate the vast scale of China's reserves but also the great difficulty it faces in diversifying them.

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It was an "exceptional" inquiry because of the scale of the disaster, the number of countries involved and the difficulty of locating the plane's data recorders, he said.

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The experts argued that the nature and the scale of women's continued marginalisation in the media, allied with the difficulty of establishing effective systems of accountability in an increasingly commercial and globalising media market place, meant that no single strategy can accomplish a great deal on its own.

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But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.

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