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Half Of All U.S. Households Own At Least One Apple

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Half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product, according to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey.  More than 51 percent of the public own an Apple product, says the survey, with one in three owning more than one. The median American household has 1.6 Apple products. About 25 per cent plan to buy another Apple product in the next year.

There is more good news on the Apple front. CEO Tim Cook has a 97 per cent approval rating among employees, according to a survey by Glassdoor.

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