Sentences with phrase «percent slice of the pie»

That seems to be the idea behind Amazon's new Web - based Kindle Cloud Reader, a transparent attempt to give iPad readers direct access to both their Kindle books and the Amazon bookstore without cutting Apple a 30 - percent slice of the pie.

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At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

Approximately 10 percent of its production is of fruit for pie fillings, but 90 percent of its production is of apple products including sauce, slices, diced apples, apple butter, pie fillings, juice, apple cider vinegar and even vinegar for drinking.

Heating typically accounts for about 28 percent of the average American home's energy use, but this year staying warm might occupy a larger slice of the household expenditure pie.

I'll bet there's an equation that a future scientist will compute that goes something like this: for every 1 Christmas cookie / cup of eggnog / slice of pie / candy cane, the risk of a cold or flu goes up 10 percent.

The middle quintile gets the largest slice of the pie, 40 percent.

The U.S. takes the largest slice of the pie with nearly 52 percent of travelers departing locally.

Despite this promising growth, however, sales of these products remain a fairly small slice of the bigger pie, with only 1.3 percent of all pet food sales at pet specialty retail in the U.S. falling into this category.

Previous estimates pegged tourism's slice of the global carbon pie as just two or three percent, but as co-author Ya - Yen Sun of the University of Queensland told Earther via email, those estimates didn't consider direct or indirect emissions from the supply chains that support tourism.

Even with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus in the lead when it comes to the nation's most popular handheld models, at 8 percent or so, iOS plunged to a deeply worrying 13.2 percent slice of the overall pie, far behind Android's towering 86.4 percent tally.