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Can't tell if you're being facetious or not.

scarface74 7y ago
Why would I be? What’s wrong with having choices of the size/price you want in iPads? Which ones would you propose they get rid of? Have you looked at the product line up of other computer and phone manufacturers? If you want a choice of Android phones, laptops or Windows PCs you have dozens of choices. Apple has to cater to all of the market segments that it cares about.
- theonemind 7y ago
  Well, I'm not one of those "not if Steve Jobs was alive" guys, but reportedly, for instance, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, they had a lot of products with poor differentiation, and he did this: http://www.howtoanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Steve-Jobs-product-strategy-matrix.png http://www.howtoanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Steve... They create one option in each category. That's all. 5 is really kind of pushing for one consumer focused product if you don't want your buyers to feel like they could've made a better choice, or at least feel like they've missed out on something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice In general, people like a few good options. Given a lot of good options, they can get an equally good outcome, and feel less good about it at the end. I think Apple has banked on that in the past, but not so much with 5 active models of iPad, in my opinion.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    Two points. While Steve Jobs was alive, they had four iPods by 2011: the shuffle, the Nano, the Classic, and the Touch. The iPhone was really just an iPod with cellular capabilities during its first four years and it was treated as such - same connector, still required iTunes, and to this day it still can use the old iPod protocol to connect to iPod compatible devices. When Jobs came back they were a struggling company. Worth $4 billion. Now they are worth $1 trillion depending on the month. He had to focus Apple. He had to focus Apple.

Why would I be? What’s wrong with having choices of the size/price you want in iPads? Which ones would you propose they get rid of? Have you looked at the product line up of other computer and phone manufacturers? If you want a choice of Android phones, laptops or Windows PCs you have dozens of choices. Apple has to cater to all of the market segments that it cares about.

theonemind 7y ago
Well, I'm not one of those "not if Steve Jobs was alive" guys, but reportedly, for instance, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, they had a lot of products with poor differentiation, and he did this: http://www.howtoanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Steve-Jobs-product-strategy-matrix.png http://www.howtoanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Steve... They create one option in each category. That's all. 5 is really kind of pushing for one consumer focused product if you don't want your buyers to feel like they could've made a better choice, or at least feel like they've missed out on something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice In general, people like a few good options. Given a lot of good options, they can get an equally good outcome, and feel less good about it at the end. I think Apple has banked on that in the past, but not so much with 5 active models of iPad, in my opinion.
- scarface74 7y ago
  Two points. While Steve Jobs was alive, they had four iPods by 2011: the shuffle, the Nano, the Classic, and the Touch. The iPhone was really just an iPod with cellular capabilities during its first four years and it was treated as such - same connector, still required iTunes, and to this day it still can use the old iPod protocol to connect to iPod compatible devices. When Jobs came back they were a struggling company. Worth $4 billion. Now they are worth $1 trillion depending on the month. He had to focus Apple. He had to focus Apple.