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Apple Profit More Than Doubles: Page 5 of 5

Yet for Apple to sustain itself, given the dominance of Windows-based computers and the highly competitive consumer electronics market, "it will have to come out with an endless series of new consumer products because the iPods at some point will plateau, as any product does," Jaruzelski said.

"But if anybody could keep pulling a rabbit out of a hat," he said, "it's Apple."

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