The business wires’ new verbal tic: Apple is ‘losing steam’

First Bloomberg, now Reuters, have boiled Apple down to a two-word editorial formula.

FORTUNE -- How do you describe a company that grew like gangbusters but has entered a patch of slower growth?

Some desk editors at the business new services have hit on what they seem to think is the perfect phrase: Apple (AAPL) is "losing steam."

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