"It was the last apple to fall from the tree, " says Samuel Hayes, a finance professor at Harvard Business School.
It also marks the end of the line for one of the last Apple brands still remaining from the interregnum between Jobs I and Jobs II: only the vestigial Power Mac G5 remains from that period.
Steve Jobs never wrote a hit song, he never made a multi-platinum album, and he never started a record label to push talented musicians into the spotlight: Yet in the last decade the Apple co-founder became the most important figure in the music world.
The last time Apple traded to similarly lofty levels in mid-October, the stock reversed to close lower for four out of the next five trading days, losing more than almost 7%.
This is the same kind of multidevice nirvana Microsoft aimed for recently with its SmartGlass app for the Xbox 360 user and is, in fact, exactly what Apple was trying to do with the last iteration of Apple TV.
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Over the last few years Apple has introduced the iPod, the iPhone, iTunes, the App Store and now the iPad.
As part of the launch of the MacBook, Apple apparently removed the last remaining PowerBook, the 12-inch model, from its site earlier today (Apple also killed the iBook brand, but we don't really see anyone missing that nearly as much).
Of course, this is the last thing that Apple wants to do, because once users begin to question the primacy of the built-in apps, the spell is broken on the invincibility of the iOS platform.
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Just look at the price of Apple over the last six months, down about a third.
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At several points over the last year, Apple stopped dictating the rules of engagement.
It might seem a little early, with the last version of Apple's operating system, OS X Leopard, going on sale last October.
Now Reuters cites a source close to one of the companies as saying that executives from Intel and Apple have indeed discussed the issue of providing chips for Apple devices in the last year, but no agreement has been reached.
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Even after all the successes of the last two years, Apple is still where it was during the Spindler era.
Six months after putting out the iPhone last year, Apple had seized 26.7% of the U.S. smart phone market in the final quarter of 2007.
By the end of last year, Apple's share of the smart phone market was 27%.
The new version of the app that went live in the Apple app store last night includes additional customizations for skin tone, eye color and hair because users wanted to be able to get closer to their aspirational selves (see image below).
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While Apple shares have been dropping recently, a new report from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech has revealed that during the last 12 weeks, Apple has sold its highest-ever share of smartphones in the U.S. with over 53%.
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Last year, Apple announced at the last minute it would be selling the iPad 2 at the Austin, Texas, event -- ensuring buzz among the tech influencers there.
Those with long memories will know that the company sold the same number of Apple handsets in the last two quarters, with around 40 percent going to new customers then as now.
Even though Hulu came off the auction block last month, Apple might be wary of opening the door to Google.
Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history.
Before last night, the consensus estimate among analysts was that Apple would sell fewer iPhones in the last quarter than the 18 million they sold in the March quarter.
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According to SyncForce who collated the result of dozens of Brand polls, last year Apple was the No. 1 global brand in 2012, having been voted No. 2 in 2009, 2010, 2011.
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Norton says one of the biggest challenges for Microsoft is whether it innovate rapidly in the ever-changing environment of the Web, pointing out that Google had an "optimized" version of Gmail available for the iPad almost immediately after Apple released the device last month.
That quality also made it easy for Apple to bump the software over to Intel's processors last year--setting the stage for Apple to offer software allowing users to run both Windows and its own operating system on their machines.
Kay said the business-friendly features Apple unveiled last month for the iPhone are just a start.
When Samsung launches the S4 later this week it will be the last time that they operate within the Apple mobile computing paradigm.
Not only is it funny to me how fast the sentiment toward Apple has changed in the last several months, but despite that shift speculation continues to run rampant over what the next product set might be.
The British designer Jony Ive has been the man behind the look of the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and iPad - and everything else that has come out of Apple in the last 15 years, right down to the packaging in which each product was presented.
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