In 2006 there were 2, 700 licensed manufacturers, and countless additional smaller shops. Rising to the top of the heap is not easy.

2006年有2700家持有营业执照的公司，还有无数的小商家，但是要爬上行业顶峰却并不是那么容易。

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Currently, the Korean company sits at the top of the heap of Android smartphone makers, selling over 30 million Galaxy devices to date.

目前，这家韩国公司坐到了安卓智能手机生产商的头把交椅，已经销售3000万台Galaxy安卓手机。

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Apple’s climb to the top of the heap cements the reputation of Mr. Jobs, who once operated in the shadow of Microsoft’s co-founder, Bill Gates.

苹果荣登榜首巩固了乔布斯的威望。 人们曾经认为，他和微软创始人比尔·盖茨诠释了“既生瑜，何生亮”的意义。

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Now, as an aside, there's another couple of layers at the very top above the stack and above the heap, but below the tech segment and those are called initialized data and uninitialized data.

题外话，在堆和栈的顶端,还有好几层，但是在技术段之下,他们被叫做初始化数据和未初始化数据。

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Nearly every country at one point was on top of the heap, and all have rich heritages.

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If we accept that interpretation, Apple was easily on top of the heap during the fourth quarter.

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Chronologically, Apple is long in the tooth at the top of the heap.

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