Both the evolution of categories themselves and other competitive versions of key items are making the Apple edge less decisive than in the past.
The stock has not traded in technically oversold territory since the Thanksgiving holiday in late November, and has a short-term, negative edge of less than half a percent.
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At the shaded edge of a less imposing river, he unpacks the fixings for sandwiches and talks about the full Greyhound bus that went off a nearby bridge one icy night, and his work with the injured as they waited for helicopters.
But in the advanced economies, where internal markets are big enough to be fairly competitive, barriers to flows of trade, capital and knowledge have long been lower, and technology is at its cutting edge, there is less to be gained.
David Proctor fouled Driver on the edge of the box with less than 10 minutes left, but the danger was cleared.
These unemployment numbers have spread riddles, loaded questions and multiple-interview marathons across the corporate food chain, into mature and less cutting-edge industries.
Eliquis has been in third place in the race to replace warfarin, but the new results may give it a marketing edge because other drugs are less able to claim superiority on either safety or efficacy.
Now that insurance premiums, including the higher ones charged for conventional health plans, are about to be 100% deductible, MSAs have less of a tax edge than when they were created in 1996.
"If you rewind the clock a year you will find the dedicated handhelds were clearly ahead, and this year they are more or less tied with an edge going to Android and iOS games, " IDC's Lewis Ward told the BBC.
That means that although both Chelsea and Spurs have an edge on Arsenal because of a game less played, only one team can actually overtake Arsenal if the Gunners win their last four games.
But the Fulham keeper could do little about Germany's third, Mueller tucking in off the post from the edge of the area, and even less about their fourth, substitute Cacau tapping in from Ozil's centre.
One year ago, the U.S. economy looked fragile and on the edge of depression and consumer spent 5% less at these retailers.
From here, the train skirts along the wealthy southwest edge of the city, through neighbourhoods that less than 100 years ago were nothing but rice fields.
Northern Europe has the edge, thanks to an inviting combination of less bureaucracy, a more developed legal system, better accounting systems and easier ways to transfer intellectual property, says Marco Da Rin, associate professor in finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
The fact that he pays in cash up front gives him an edge, no doubt, against others who are less committed to driving on vegetables.
The more that ecosystems become degraded, the UN says, the greater the risk that they will be pushed "over the edge" into a new stable state of much less utility to humankind.
Redesigned from the inside out, the new iMac packs high-performance technology into an aluminum and glass enclosure with up to 40 percent less volume than its predecessor and an edge that measures just 5 mm thin.
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For most inter-city journeys of more than two hours and less than five, rail has the competitive edge in safety, reliability and speed over both aircraft and cars.
For even the strongest brands, there may come a moment in time when its good name, because of some less than good event, teeters on the edge of being brought down.
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Professors might take less pay if it means being at the cutting edge of research.
When Joanne was nine, the family moved a little farther west, to the edge of the Forest of Dean, a more rural and less prosperous district.
But because the funding is directed to these specific areas, there is less money overall to fund staff and cutting-edge research outside those deemed by Prof Beddington and senior members of the research community as strategically important.
Zynga went so far as to detail that it could see its competitive edge decrease from its new class of wealthy employees who might be less inclined to log long hours creating its popular games now that many are now worth millions.
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If Britain is to retain its edge in business services, its companies will need to do more rather than less offshoring.
Hamilton counterpart Tomas Cerny looked less convincing as he challenged Steve Lovell for the ball on the edge of his six-yard box.
She has an eye for ephemera at the edge of a vast stage: that tear-gas canisters become more not less potent when they pass their expiry date, that in July last year a Saudi flag appeared in Tahrir Square, that the soldiers took possession of any US dollar bills they came across as evidence of demonstrators being foreign agents.
This tiny move makes the screen a tad less vulnerable than the GS3, which features glass that sits slightly above the edge.
The outfit just introduced a pair of touch-friendly, Win 8-ready all-in-one desktops, the 23-inch Aspire 5600U and the 27-inch Aspire 7600U. As you can see in the press shots, the design here is fairly minimal, with an edge-to-edge display, a transparent panel at the bottom of the bezel and a thin frame measuring less than 1.4 inches thick.
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Pistorius might have been on edge, but we in the body corporate sent out endless nagging e-mails to our far less combat ready complex dwellers urging them to lock their doors, close their windows, and set their alarms at night.
NATO, and it would mean that American troops were less likely to be involved in peacekeeping (which the Pentagon believes dulls combat soldiers' fighting edge and for which Congress can lack enthusiasm).
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