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There is only one thing we Amazon makes a tablet; Apple makes a say to Death: “Not this fiscal quarter”. mapping service; things generally In fact, Apple did a great deal more proceed much as before. Each giant than put off the Grim Reaper for a few seems too strong to be defeated on its more years, which is what you might own turf, reminding me a little of the have expected from those predictions politically convenient perpetual war I mentioned just now: some of the analyst between the three superstates in comment before the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Nineteen Eighty-Four. came out verged on the apocalyptic. The Nobody would argue that tech firm’s Q1 2015 was the most lucrative consumers face a future as dystopian quarter of any public company in as that, but a world of semi-competing American history and arrived, with brutal but largely separate monopolies is a timing, just days before erstwhile rival Competition is good dispiriting thought. As an Apple fan, I like Samsung was obliged to trot out its own the fact that Samsung gave the company (less than triumphant) numbers.