"Some Germans were hired to pose as apple buyers from a suburb of Beijing, " said Ben.

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One or two reporters have picked up on the dangers such structured notes linked to Apple pose for investors.

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As I wrote yesterday such developments may pose risk to Apple.

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This shows that Apple devices pose a real threat to more traditional gaming systems.

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But Android devices, which often use email, maps and other features from Apple rival Google, pose a growing threat to the Cupertino, Calif.

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But as Facebook builds its social-app platform and takes it onto mobile devices, it will pose more of a competitive threat to Apple and Amazon too.

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Not that anyone should rely entirely upon a map of any sort of course, but mistakes in the Apple Maps application in iOS6 do seem to pose perhaps more danger than some other such mistakes.

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