It wasn't the only meal among my recent favorites that was vegetarian from soup to nuts.

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Apple neatly straddles both worlds, being, for the most part, indifferent to where work is done, since it owns its whole ecosystem from soup to nuts.

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"It would certainly be classic Apple in terms of 'We're going to take care of the entire experience from soup to nuts, '" says Crawford Del Prete, senior vice president at tech-market researcher IDC.

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