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Matt asked a good question a few posts back. I made the comment that the iPod and iTunes were never expected, or designed, to be what they are - a huge success that catapulted Apple to the leader in consumer electronics and music.
In fact, the story there is the iPod
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Matt asked a good question a few posts back. I made the comment that the iPod and iTunes were never expected, or designed, to be what they are - a huge success that catapulted Apple to the leader in consumer electronics and music.
In fact, the story there is the iPod
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UPDATE: Perhaps this is what was keeping them busy - here are the details about the iPhone $100 iPology rebate
Folks, I noticed some strange issues with Apple over the last 6 months
and I'm beginning to wonder. First, our friends in Cupertino introduce
iPhone 6 months before it
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UPDATE: Perhaps this is what was keeping them busy - here are the details about the iPhone $100 iPology rebate
Folks, I noticed some strange issues with Apple over the last 6 months
and I'm beginning to wonder. First, our friends in Cupertino introduce
iPhone 6 months before it
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Apple announced today it sold it's one millionth iPhone. That 1,000,000 phones in 74 days. It took them one week to sell one million songs at $0.99, two years to sell one million iPods and about two months to sell one million iPhones at around
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Apple announced today it sold it's one millionth iPhone. That 1,000,000 phones in 74 days. It took them one week to sell one million songs at $0.99, two years to sell one million iPods and about two months to sell one million iPhones at around
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So now that the speculation is over (and dare I say how correct the
rumors were) one good question was raised today about how entirely out
of character it was for Apple to cut the price of a current product
(in this case the iPhone) from $599 to $399. Was
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So now that the speculation is over (and dare I say how correct the
rumors were) one good question was raised today about how entirely out
of character it was for Apple to cut the price of a current product
(in this case the iPhone) from $599 to $399. Was
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So while everyone can remember the phrase "KISS" :keep it simple stupid (or keep it sweet and simple if you have kids) it seems that no one can really do such a thing but Apple. You see, creating software and hardware is a really hard thing. You focus
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Here is the MarketingApple ebook.
Click to download a higher rez version suitable for printing and sharing with others.
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There's marketing and then there is shock and awe marketing.
Occassionally Apple has to remind people of their market power.
Witness this photo I took this morning of Boston's busy South Station
where thousands of commuters rush to and from work. Every single
available ad space
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One of the points I make in my eBook (coming soon!) is that good marketers can find a way make a customer feel they become a member of a special group after purchasing the product. Apple's white headphones do this very well.
I thought this photo and commercial
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