World wide smart phone sales really nnow have plateaed. Apple has this history of coming up with path breaking products, like the eyepod and eephone. They're now using those nearly two billion gadgets not just as products to sell, but as points of sale in their own right. And they've got other things going on as well, like health care, all kinds of stuff. But all of these are fairly uncertain.
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