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  • Even if the iPad follows the same shooting-star sales pattern as some of Apple's previous new-to-the-world product offers -- a flash of excitement followed by disintegration -- Apple has likely already sold enough product to pocket a tidy net profit, albeit a much smaller one that its shareholders might have hoped for.

    The iPad: A Dubious Bet For Publishers Ron Adner 2010

  • Even if the iPad follows the same shooting-star sales pattern as some of Apple's previous new-to-the-world product offers -- a flash of excitement followed by disintegration -- Apple has likely already sold enough product to pocket a tidy net profit, albeit a much smaller one that its shareholders might have hoped for.

    The iPad: A Dubious Bet For Publishers Ron Adner 2010

  • Even if the iPad follows the same shooting-star sales pattern as some of Apple's previous new-to-the-world product offers -- a flash of excitement followed by disintegration -- Apple has likely already sold enough product to pocket a tidy net profit, albeit a much smaller one that its shareholders might have hoped for.

    The iPad: A Dubious Bet For Publishers Ron Adner 2010

  • Even if the iPad follows the same shooting-star sales pattern as some of Apple's previous new-to-the-world product offers -- a flash of excitement followed by disintegration -- Apple has likely already sold enough product to pocket a tidy net profit, albeit a much smaller one that its shareholders might have hoped for.

    The iPad: A Dubious Bet For Publishers Ron Adner 2010

  • Most closely associated these days with minimalist Konstantin Grcic and shooting-star Stefan Dietz, Munich has a contemporary design tradition dating back to 1966, when German lighting master Ingo Maurer set up his studio.

    Munich Commemorates Ingo Maurer and His Brilliant Light Designs 2010

  • A small star pin adorns the lapel of her jacket, evoking the now-iconic star jewelry that Chanel created in the 1920s and 1930s -- perhaps most famously, the shooting-star neck cuff.

    Lesley M. M. Blume: Coco Before Chanel's Audrey Tautou Talks Fashion, Fury, And Smoking 2009

  • From all appearances, he took the Air Force One design as his base, ripped off the Swoosh logo, and stitched on his own shooting-star–like emblem.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • Abu Shiháb (Father of the shooting-star = evil spirit); the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Najm al-Munkazzi,” making the envious spy one of the prying Jinns at whom is launched the Shiháb or shooting-star by the angels who prevent them listening at the gates of Heaven.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those personages who distinguish themselves during some single and extraordinarily brilliant period of their lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the brilliancy of its splendour.

    Redgauntlet 2008

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