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"The biggest airliner Ever"
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AirBus A380
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Airbus Headquarters
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Toulouse, France
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# of passengers including staff
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873
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Over ...... years in making
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10
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How much is invested in Airbus?
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10.7 billion
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Manufacturing plant in France could hold.....
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23 football fields
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aircraft made of .....components
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seven
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Airbus could accomidate.....
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850 people
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How long is the airbus A380?
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240 ft in length
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how much bigger is the Airbus 380 than a boeing 477
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45% bigger
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What is the cost to purchase the Airbus A380?
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$265 M
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How many orders of the A380 have been made?
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239 orders
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How long are the wings of A380?
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119 Ft long each
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How heavy are the wings of the A380?
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140 Tons
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Hotshot for Airbus A380 that gave quantus tour.
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John Lee
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Head of Quantus Airline of Australia.
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Jeff Dixion
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Span of tail of plane
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105 Ft
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Tail fin is the size of a ..... story building
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FIVE
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Head of Airbus Program
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Charles Champion
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problem with the tail fin
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6mm off side to side.
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What corporation built the landing gear for the Airbus A380
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Goodrich Corporation in Toronto, Canada
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Simulation of Landing is called...
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The drop test
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landing gear must absorb the energy from ........ of weight
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560 tons
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Head of Goodrich Corporation's Engineering Dept.
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Barry Levoir
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Total manufacturing time from the time the first part was made
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2 years
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Traditional Vacation month in France...
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August
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First person to fly the Airbus A380
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Jacques Rosay
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VTP
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Vertical Tail Plane (VTP)
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The engine burns a gallon of fuel every.....seconds
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FOUR
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MBO
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Management by Objective
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MBWA
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Management by Walking Around
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MBWO
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Management by Walking Outside
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WWII submarine, That Jerkus talked about
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USS Barbe
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Who said: "Hit'em where they ain't."
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Baseball Player Willie Keeler of the Baltimore Orioles
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Willie Keeler of the Baltimore Orioles, hit in 44 consecutive games, and had a famous quote...
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"Hit 'em where they ain't."
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Strategy w/ roots in Industrial organization economics, Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm
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Structuralist View of Stategy
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Market "structure" shapes buyer/seller "conduct" which determines end "performance."
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Structuralist View of Strategy
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Changes are system-wide and are brought about by exogenous factors.
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Structuralist View of Strategy
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Based on Environmental determinism, usually results in competition-based strategic thinking, Red Ocean
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Structuralist View of Strategy
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All industries in existance today, or the known market space.
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Red Ocean
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Red Ocean Focus:
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Accept constraining Factors
War: limited turf Need to beat competition |
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Built on the theory of endogenous (within) growth
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Reconstructionist view of Strategy
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Economist who believed in innovation and entrepreneurship...Reconstructionist View
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Schumpeter
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Structure and market boundaries exist only in the managers mind
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Reconstructionist View of Strategy
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Demand is out there. How can it be tapped?, Don't focus on the Competition-rather on "value innovation.", "Hit'em where they ain't."
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Reconstructionist View of Strategy
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Opperates in a blue ocean, involves reconstructing existing buyer value elements
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Reconstructionist View of Strategy
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REBVE
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Reconstructing existing buyer value elements (REBVE)
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Blue ocean Focus
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Distinctive strength of the business world: capacity to create new market-uncontested
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All industries not in existence today, unknown market space
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Blue Ocean
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World's Biggest Airliner
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AirBus A380
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Two companies making the world's aircraft
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Boeing and AirBus
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Once CEO of Airbus Industries, promoted to chairman of Airbus and co-CEO of European Aeronautic Defense and Space
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Noel Forgeard
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EADS
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European Aeronautic Defense and Space
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Upon Forgeard's elevation from CEO of Airbus to chairman of Airbus and co-CEO of EADS he read...
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The Memoires du duc de Saint-Simone Siecle de Louis XIV, la regence, Louis XV. (a personal account of the duc de Saint-Simone's life at court)
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Co-CEOs of EADS
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Noel Forgeard & Thomas Enders
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German executive who was a co-CEO of EADS
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Thomas Enders
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Biggest stakeholders in EADS and Airbus
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France and Germany
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Charles Champion
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chosen to be Chief Operating Officer and head of the A380 project
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Noted for his fitness developed through long, conditioning runs
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Charles Champion
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Graduate of Fordham University w/ a dual major in communications and philosophy & had an MBA from Syracuse University and head of sales in 1988, and then president. In 1994, appointed Chief Commercial Officer of Airbus and was in Charge of Airbus North Amerian, Chinal, Japan and Russia
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John Leahy
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major parts of Airbus A380 made in....
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Spain, France, and Germany
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Each airplane has a sales price of....
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$300 M
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Projected Sales Revenue from Airbus A380
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$480 Billion US dollars
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Landing gear weighs as much as about......, and it must be lifted into the plane in about......
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20 cars, 13 seconds
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Each Airbus A380 needs .... Escape slides
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16
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regulations say that 873 passangers need to get out of the plane in less than......
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90 seconds
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The speed of the sewage system which was created in Hamburge, Germany
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60 meter per second (130 mph)
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Flight test director for Airbus A380
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Fernando Alonso
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Day of the first flight of the Airbus A380
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April 27, 2005
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SWOT
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
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General Electric's motto in Wales
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"Our goal: total customer satisfaction" ...."Ein Nod: Bodlonrwydd Llwyr I Gwsmeriaid"
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GE's boss since 1981, who has some claim to being the world's most successful manager of the past quarter-century
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Jack Welch
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Earned the nick-name......for the way he laid off 100,000 workers, savagely reorganizing a company that most people had assumed was doing well.
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Jack Welch
"neutron Jack" |
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"Conference speakers the world over assert that you have to......your own business to .......
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Destroy
Survive |
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What was the best magic trick in the last 1000 years
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Hudin, famous French magician performed magic tricks to chiefs and shamans to demonstrate French power. Electromagnet "chest is too heavy" trick.
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What was the best child's toy in the last 1000 years?
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Toy alphabet block
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Two broadcasting companies owned by GE
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CNBC
NBC |
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"half the products and services that GE power-systems unit sells....
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did not exist 5 years ago
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The Big kahuna, big enchalada, etc...
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Airbus A380
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Airbus A380 leading customer
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Singapore airlines
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Designed the jet engine
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Britain's Frank Whittle & Germany's Ohine
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Britain's First airliner which crashed twice and killed all passangers
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Britain's "The Comet"....caused by the way the aluminum in the glass was cut.
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Boeing merged with....to become the only plane manufacturer in the USA
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Mcdonald Douglas
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The most produced airliner in the world
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Boeing 737
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Nicknamed "Queen of the Skys"
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Boeing 737
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Reflective marker imbedded in the road so that you can see where the road is at night
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Cat's eyes
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The winner of the "BEST DESIGN"
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The supersonic transporter the Concord
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Origin of "Chekov's gun" expression
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Russian Writer who wrote Uncle Vanya...which represents a foreshadowing
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external threats to Panera Bread company
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health threat
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Panera in latin
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"Time for bread"
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"Only the paranoid survive."
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Andy Grove
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Google's Co-founders
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Larry Paige and Surgay Brin
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Google's CEO
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Eric Shmit
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Android software was first introduced in ....
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2008
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Google's main "smart-phones" competitor is.....
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the iphone by apple
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Google's android has ....apps while apple's has....
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10,000,
100,000 |
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google's advertising program
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Adwords
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