The income from selling apps (or in app purchases) is clearly not running on a normal distribution nor anything close to it.

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The slowdown in America that followed the puncturing of the bubble was not a normal one, and nor is the recovery, heady though it is.

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Nor do journalists get access in the normal course of events to a company's internal books, as an auditor would.

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