Is it simply a matter of there being a finite number of facial geometries? (You'll note, perhaps, that the Toyota Avalon looks like the latest product from Ford Design.) Was it, as others have suggested, a case of intellectual property and fair play, since Ford at one time owned Aston Martin?
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He tells about how the original iPhone looked nothing like the shipping product.
Pritikin explained that when they started working on the project, they had to decide whether they wanted to use an off-the-shelf product like the iPhone, or develop their own, perhaps using a platform like Android.
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And 65% of its users are outside the U.S. As a measure of how much its users like the product Rockmelt says the average user spends 6.5 hours per day using the product.
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In the chart (see above) we display the return profile for a product like the Merrill note: a three-times return in the 0%-to-6% range, a flat 18% return if the market does better than 6% and a full participation in losses if the market goes down.
Like the Apple product, it can backup data, locate devices or wipe them of sensitive information.
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Coursekit has testimonials suggesting that there are professors who like the product.
Like Duke Nukem, Aliens: Colonial Marines showed screenshots that looked gorgeous, but ended up being absolutely nothing like the final product released.
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So if the electronics department at a retailer like Target or Walmart thinks it can make money selling a popular product like the Kindle, then it will sell the Kindle regardless of who else profits along the way or how that sale might ultimately erode profits of the entire organization.
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Essentially, the lunch was focused on asking some broad questions: What do you like about the product?
Is the iPad destined to be a popular repair product like the iPhone?
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If playing on the PGA Tour is like having your product stocked at Wal-Mart, competing on the Nationwide is like selling through a regional supermarket chain.
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The pair landed the product in giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target and nearly 10, 000 stores across the country.
By pursuing such initiatives while developing the full sales potential of existing product lines like the V-22 Osprey and CH-47 Chinook rotorcraft, Boeing may be able to grow military earnings even as defense demand softens in the years ahead.
In this manner, the incremental earnings that a new product category, like the iWatch, could generate would help propel the stock back to previous levels.
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Maybe they worked for the company, or really they like its product, or they knew the fund manager, or their best friend recommended it years ago.
In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, Coca Cola (NYSE:KO) switched from a globalization to a localization strategy that localized the wrong product characteristics like branding.
However, while Israeli gas efforts officially started flowing during the final days of March, the challenge of just how to transport the product to worthwhile markets like Europe remains a challenge.
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The case for a merger, meager as it is, could go something like this: buy Chrysler for almost nothing, spin off Jeep or Hummer, absorb the minivan operations and a few other product lines, like the Chrysler 300 rear-wheel-drive platform.
"We know that through the Prohibition, for example, when you ban any product like alcohol, that people tend to be more interested in the product, " said Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi of George Washington University Medical Center.
The waiting also helps justify the purchase to the buyer -- making it seem like he or she earned the product, he said.
Some of those obsessions art installations from the 1960s, sci-fi post-apocalyptic tropes, visual artists like Robert Irwin were filtered into the final product, which combines crystal-like sculptures, videos, and a light show designed to engulf audiences.
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And I guess the question that we all have is, is the same message applicable to people like Senator Lieberman, who are threatening to derail the entire product because one thing is in it that they don't like?
The main reason, it points out, is regulations and restrictions, licensing and certification barriers to entry, service mandates, and the like most of which are the legislative product of successful lobbying by vested industry interests.
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The pizza chain is always working to bring greater relevance to its brand, whether through new product releases like the new Big Pizza Sliders, or to pique the interests of smart communicators steeped in social business to help them better articulate that relevance.
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On the other end of the spectrum, very early-stage companies like JiveHealth, a product of the Startup Leadership Program, are getting attention on the national stage.
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The plan is to allow product lines like HD camcorders and displays cross-pollinate with the cameras, eventually producing more models like the NV24HD pocket cam and HMX20 camcorder -- and hopefully for cheaper prices, since Sammy will be able to better manage suppliers and the retail channel.
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The problem that most consumers have when it comes to having issues with a defective product, is they forget that Stores like Best Buy only sell the product not produce it.
If the impetus is on IT to act more like a product development company, and less like an institutional bureaucracy, our view is that this is the sort of paradigm that IT should adopt, instead of being highly reactive.
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The closest thing--at least in looks--to the pod-like vehicle George piloted is another product of 1961: the Ford Gyron.
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