Both seem like somewhat begrudging victories for the company, after years of digging in and refusing to embrace the smartphone explosion over concerns of diluting its brand and not being able to produce its customary hardware/software synergy.
Black composers have been criticized in both African-American and white intellectual circles for refusing to embrace mainstream commercial trends.
But do they really think they can prosper in competition with a $17bn US company like Uber, while refusing to embrace a home-grown innovation?
Others point to the government, which has failed to reduce the supply of ecstasy and is refusing to embrace harm reduction strategies that have worked in Europe.
He was killed by the Moguls in 1675 for defending Hindus facing forcible conversion to Islam and for refusing to embrace Islam himself.
Clinton has stayed steadfastly on a centrist path, criticizing President Bush but refusing to embrace the early troop withdrawal options that are gaining rapid favor in her party.
Stephen Harper's government in Canada refused to embrace climate progress, but Canada's cities - Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton - are racing forward, as are its major provinces Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and - very soon, my intelligence suggests, even Alberta.
"Maine was the only state in New England that refused to embrace evidence practices that could have curbed the opioid epidemic".
We are part of a church that has steadfastly refused to embrace, in both internal structures and theological development, modern concepts like democracy or gender equality.
