Because Apple had success with the iTunes Store, its approach to apps has followed a similar pattern.

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The company says the plaintiffs experts can prove a common pattern of discrimination since pay and promotion decisions are made on a store-by-store basis.

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The pattern was provided but we had to go and pick our own material at the fabric store along with thread to match.

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"I like looking at anything with a pattern on it, so it's hard for me to say, " she says, standing opposite her store's window.

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