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Apple vs. Amazon: Battle for the Planet of the App Stores

By Chris Hill – Updated Apr 6, 2017 at 10:48PM

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NASDAQ: AAPL

Apple Inc.

Market Cap

$2,418B

Today's Change

(0.23%) $0.34

Current Price

$150.77

Price as of September 26, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET

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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) are set to do battle again, this time in a courtroom. Amazon opened its app store for Android smartphones. Apple claims it holds the "App Store" trademark. How strong is Apple's case? Will Amazon be forced to cave? And which stock do our analysts believe will perform better over the next five years?

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Stocks Mentioned

Apple Inc.

AAPL

$150.77 (0.23%) $0.34

Amazon.com, Inc.

AMZN

$115.15 (1.20%) $1.37

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

HOG

$37.12 (-1.12%) $0.42

Winnebago Industries, Inc.

WGO

$52.42 (1.75%) $0.90

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