The iPhone category is different as carriers, and their subsidies and marketing, can have influence over consumer purchasing decisions.
But how do people we know little more about than the parts they play on screen have influence over the things we watch, the decisions we make and the people we become?
That would mean that lobbies representing different medical specialties, drug companies, device makers, hospitals, home health nurses and other providers would cease to have influence over their own payment rates as they do now.
He's shown over here he can have an influence over the bowlers and talk about some of the things he feels are very important to be successful.
Sure, you have some influence over those unconscious processes directing you this way and that.
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The poll also suggests that the Internet does not have much influence over teens.
Yes, even stay at home moms have distinct influence over how the houshold budget gets spent.
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You want to start early so you can guide your children and have some influence over their decisions.
Norquist may have had influence over the direction of super PAC funding, but he didn't hold the purse strings.
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After helping bring Mr Karzai to power, they now have less influence over the Afghan drug industry than before.
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Religious and community leaders were invited to Downing Street because they were thought to have some influence over the zealots.
And after the mid-term elections, it was clear that Republicans would have considerable influence over the agency in the new Congress.
As a result, Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.
There are indeed inequalities between men and women and one of them is that women have more influence over household spending than men do.
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Many investors in America also believe that bosses have more influence over their companies than they used to and much more than their counterparts elsewhere.
Mr Burgess said the proposals exceed the cuts needed to be made by 25%, meaning residents will have some influence over which will go ahead.
Reasoning together, in public, through a question of political philosophy is something that Professor Sandel, a political philosopher, will be able to have great influence over.
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Government officials in both countries have enormous influence over contracts and procurement, development and infrastructure projects, loan approvals, real estate transactions, land use rights, and preferences in regulated industries.
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Russia does not have great influence over Arab-Israeli matters.
There continues to be a big difference between the proportion of Scots who would like the Scottish government to have most influence over how Scotland is run (63%) and the proportion who believe it actually does (34%).
Total and Unocal, on the other hand, argue that no forced labour went into the construction of the pipeline itself, and that, in any case, they have no influence over Myanmar's army and cannot be held responsible for its conduct.
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"Whoever ... builds infrastructure, provides cheap products for markets and loans to support government initiatives will always have an influence over Africa affairs, " said Ayo Johnson, director of Viewpoint Africa, an organization that sells content about Africa to media outlets internationally.
If it had written him off, it would have lost all influence over him, Mr Wolfowitz said.
He says the bigger problem is that African nations have very little influence over the flows of global trade.
In fact, our preexisting beliefs often have far more influence over our logical conclusions than facts or hard data.
But it is not easy to enact new laws, particularly when large companies have so much influence over the political process.
It is bad for democracy when a single rich man is perceived to have purchased undue influence over a political party.
We have had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now.
Former PM Gordon Brown, the second commissioner replied, had "without any proper consultation renounced the ability of Downing Street to have any influence" over appointments.
Investment banks must have a dizzying influence over the regulator to win special protection from short-selling, particularly as they act as prime brokers for almost all short-sellers.
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