But Apple is big enough to be targeted by just about every group, activist and media organization for morally ambiguous business practices.

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All this anecdotal information, while often more ambiguous than government statistics, is more timely and thus just as valuable.

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The news cycle largely seems done with the subject, at least for now, but the steady stream of stories about Apple and some ambiguous wrong doing of a non-legal sort is just picking up steam.

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