Along with the occasional gem, for instance, were rows of simple, flabby reds and gooey Chardonnays turning brown as a half-eaten apple before your eyes.
The move comes two and a half months after Apple banished Google from providing the core maps experience on the iPhone and iPad because of a dispute over advertising, revenue shares and the provision of those navigation and vector functions.
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The iPhone accounts for nearly half of sales at Apple and the majority of profit.
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It will be half the size of Apple's iPad and will be compatible with Google's Android operating system.
Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history.
During the period Jobs was on medical leave in the first half of 2009, Apple shares actually appreciated about 67%.
With year-over-year growth expected to stabilized in the 2013 first half, he writes Apple shares are set to appreciate from here.
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Flags are being flown at half mast outside the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, while fans of the company have left tributes outside Apple shops around the world.
They spend half their paycheck at the Apple store every week.
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With that, today the Samsung-Apple pairing has half of the global market in smartphones (and barely over a third of all mobile phone handsets when dumbphones are included) so there is clearly plenty of room for other rivals, contenders and pretenders.
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When you've got a tight single layer, cut the remaining apple quarters in half and strew them over the first layer. (You might have to cut more apples to get a fairly even layer here, or you might have apple quarters left over.) Don't worry about making this layer beautiful no one will see it, but it will give the finished tart a little height.
According to some estimates, orders from Apple account for almost half of Foxconn's total revenue.
In terms of pure visual data (as calculated by Photoshop at the same level of jpg compression) the Google Map screen weighs in at precisely half the information of its prettier Apple counterpart.
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Apple is projected to have half the growth rate of Facebook, and 80% of the growth of Google.
Not least, Apple would avoid pissing off half or more of all smartphone owners who just wanted a good smartphone and got caught in the patent crossfire.
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Though sales in Europe should improve in the second half of 2008 as new models like Apple's second-generation iPhone go on sale, Gartner is forecasting little or no growth for 2008 as a whole.
Neither issue's a deal-breaker, but it's a little disappointing that something this physically big, not doing any serious local processing, can only manage half the battery life of something like Apple's iPad playing a game like Riptide GP.
Well, there are two and a half negatives to a larger iPhone that Apple has long considered (1) bigger is harder to handle (2) a different size screen needs a different number of pixels, which is a pain in the neck for app developers.
Mr. Dinges noted that Apple would need to have roughly half a million iPhones produced per day at a minimum to meet some analyst expectations of 50 million iPhones to be sold during the holiday quarter.
The much-delayed Motorola iTunes phone is also still slated for release in the second half of this year, which perhaps reflects Apple's belief that they we will be able to get the carriers to come to their senses by then.
From the same source we also get the news that Apple TV is coming in the first half of 2013.
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For its most recent quarter, Apple's iTunes business was nearly half the size of its iPod business, up from 16.7% at the end of 2005.
We believe the connected TV could hit Apple stores and distributors in the second half of 2012, and based on our checks, Sharp is ramping production of the sets.
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Although the third-generation iPad surprised many by gaining about half a millimeter of thickness, it looks like Apple could be back to trimming product dimensions by using a new kind of display technology in the next iPhone.
By all accounts he is doing a good job too: slashing operating costs by nearly half, boosting employee morale, and dramatically winnowing Apple's once sprawling product line down to just four computers (professional and consumer versions of laptops and desktops).
New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican, pointed out last week at a Senate town-hall hearing in Philadelphia that the Big Apple's economy would collapse without the half-million or so undocumented people among the city's 3m immigrants.
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Yankee Group surveyed 506 people and almost half of them (47%) plan to buy an Apple iPad.
And based on projections, Apple could hit 100 billion within five and a half years, or about 9x faster than McDonalds.
Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple product, a new survey says, showing just how far the reach of the company has come in the last decade.
As you would imagine, Apple and Samsung sold the most, accounting for almost half of all worldwide smartphone purchases.
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