When Steve Jobs offered Apple's proposed agency pricing model to publishers, large publishers welcomed Apple's market entry because they wanted a strong counterbalance to Amazon's market dominance.

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On the other side of this entry room are Woods's 1988 plans and model for the "Einstein Tomb, " an orbiting spacecraft in the shape of a cruciform cenotaph that would have carried the physicist's ashes throughout the universe, were they not already scattered on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Even the entry-level Samsung model might be considered an alternative to Apple's, especially by prospective buyers who are price-conscious or prefer Android, or who want some Samsung features the Touch lacks.

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