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>That's Courage. For real this time, one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was that he slashed the product line and killed off a ton
by Despegar 7y ago
>That's Courage. For real this time, one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was that he slashed the product line and killed off a ton of things so that the company could focus on what truly mattered; building great computing devices.
It's absurd that people keep suggesting this when it was a tactical move by a company near bankruptcy, had problems with too much inventory, and lots of models of computers that weren't differentiated.
- klodolph 7y agoWe see it as an obvious move in retrospect but this goes completely counter to the way most consumer electronics businesses are run then and now. It takes courage because various internal stakeholders, shareholders, and clients demand feature lists and cling to the hope that various markets will explode. Just take a look at the Dell or HP websites and browse for a minute or two.
- scarface74 7y agoTo prevent having to price match and to make it hard for consumers to compare products, a lot of companies have different models for different retailers - Apple did this before SJ came back. You still see this with products like mattresses.