Now Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) must adapt its business model in order to compete.
Professional forecasters often apply some version of a Markov model in order to get a baseline and then incorporate other factors, such as barometric pressure, to improve accuracy.
It may be argued that the prevailing economic condition is partially to blame for this, as businesses continue to adopt the crowdsourcing business model in order to access cheap and free labor.
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However, the lack of a chance to try before buying can be a huge downside to this mail order model.
Such limited customisation encourages a build-to-order model, without the need for a supply chain drowned by a huge number of parts.
Many physicists and physiologists suspect that fibrillation is chaotic, and are trying to model it in order to find ways of stabilising the dangerous convulsions.
They do not know when this unlockable phone will come out, but you can be sure the release has been timed (read: delayed) to make sure that everyone has a chance to buy a locked model first in order to protect the carriers.
Previously, an owner would need to order a stock factory model, and then replace parts in order to achieve a personalized ride.
Credit its relentless price-slashing and its build-to-order business model, which keeps inventories low.
In the late 1990s, Dell tore through the PC industry with its hyper-efficient, built-to-order manufacturing model.
Dell has aggressively moved its renowned direct-sales, build-to-order business model to the Internet.
Dell's build-to-order business model means it is among the first to be exposed to price changes in the supply chain.
Retailers such as Levi's and Brooks Brothers are already experimenting with the Dell Computer model, where customers order products that are made especially for them.
The moral of the story is that many businesses do not need to strictly follow the either-or business model of producing to order or for inventory.
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In order to model the stock market, he insists, one must use fractals, because they are the only way science has of exactly imagining the rough and uneven nature of a market.
To see a beloved AAA title offered for free might stir the hearts of other publishers to do the same, or at the very least spur them to try the model for themselves in order to compete.
In 1948, six Boeing engineers worked for weekend in a hotel room to produce a 33 page proposal, which included moving from turbo-prop to jet engines, and accompanied this proposal with a balsa-model prototype, in order to salvage a team project that was at the risk of failure.
Full pricing and model specifications will be announced when order books open on March 1, 2011.
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In order to push this model, Taobao waived all listing and transaction fees, making money just from advertising.
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Over time, our business model evolved to include mail-order, Internet and retail stores.
In order to make that model work, it is critical for every government within the larger system to adopt a nondiscrimination rule.
Could a crowdfunding model be applied to innovation prizes in order to create a new incentive mechanism for global innovation?
Indeed, the MIT team plans to use this chip to model neural structures such as vision in order to gain a deeper understanding of the brain.
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Adam Leach, a principal analyst at research firm Ovum, said Google's business model was to offer free services in order to draw people into its other offerings.
However, in order to sustain its business model, it needs to increase the number of people who visit its site, thereby increasing the number of eyeballs exposed to the ads.
The Vatican knew of Maciel's abuse for decades yet held him up as a model for the faithful because of the order's perceived orthodoxy and ability to attract money and vocations.
Indeed, first complexity needs to be reduced in order to make a clear model of whatever you are trying to evaluate before you can use those mountains of data effectively.
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In their study, the researchers used mammalian retinas with a degeneration of photoreceptors in order to have an experimental model of different degenerative pathologies of the retina, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa or macular degeneration.
"It is appropriate to infer that the e-mails and software materials would demonstrate Ellison's knowledge of, among other things, problems with Suite 11i, the effects of the economy on Oracle's business and problems with defendants' forecasting model, " Illston said in the order.
Mr Liu was at work on a model boat, his tools laid out in exquisite order.
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