When Amazon.com introduced the Kindle Fire in 2011, it was a budget-friendly game-changer for the growing tablet market that certainly shook the Apple tree.
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And now, though I was not up in the apple tree, I had found various salients in our half acre that allowed me to see a good deal of her at night, when she went to bed.
From the shadow of the garage, I beheld the back yard, with its Norwegian maples, the tilted white birches, the ancient apple tree whose branches touched the windows of the family room, and for the first time, it seemed, I understood the green glory of this acreage as something indifferent to human life and quite apart from the Victorian manse set upon it.
"It was the last apple to fall from the tree, " says Samuel Hayes, a finance professor at Harvard Business School.
My but the apple has fallen far from the tree.
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"Kim Jong Il picked the apple that didn't fall far from the tree, " a U.S. official said.
Stephanie Crocker started in 2001 when she and her husband John bought a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard.
Still, we saw a lot of the North Korean capital and even managed to get into the countryside to see a huge apple and fruit-tree orchard where thousands of farmers work what the orchard director said were some 2.2 million trees.
The company name Apple fell from a tree, dropping right into Jobs' vision of what a computer should be--simple and approachable.
Myriad objects to the comparison of the gene sequences with a branch or an apple off of a tree, and its lawyers convinced a majority of the judges on the Federal Circuit to agree.
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Unless this apple falls surprisingly far from the Jobian tree, the iPhone 5 should be another killer phone.
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White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.
The backdrop for all this will be a lush tree-filled landscape an Apple oasis, if you will.
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Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.
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By July, 30 apple, pear, cherry and plum trees were planted with help from professional arborists at the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
But if iPod's sales ultimately disappoint, it's because Apple's industry-leading marketing expertise makes every product launch like Christmas morning, but the presents under the tree never quite measure up to the ones in your imagination.
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