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30th September 2010

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dbreunig: Inside the Apple TV is an iPod Touch which traded it’s screen and battery for a better graphics chip and a power supply. How valuable is Apple COO Tim Cook? Not only are they a $260 billion company with only a handful of products, but half of those products are made out of the same thing… (Via Engadget) In the 1960s when Lee Iacocca was at Ford he would do the same thing as Drew mentions — multiple products would be created from the same basic parts. The Mustang was a Falcon sedan massaged into a au courant coupe. Various hard-tops and “personal coupes” were created by putting a different nose or different doors on otherwise plain vanilla cars. And Iacocca was also responsible for the massive explosion of accessories that could be had with your Mustang/Thunderbird/Cougar etc. Some people saw this as, indeed still see this, as excessively cynical. They said that people knew the cars were all the same underneath. But, people bought them anyway and paid extra for accessories, whether they were a stripe kit or heavy-duty suspension. Now, Apple will sell you accessories, but a case or an extra powercord aren’t accessories in the Ford-of-the-1960s sense. Back in the 60s you could change how the car worked by accessorising it. The App Store does that today. Genius.

dbreunig:

Inside the Apple TV is an iPod Touch which traded it’s screen and battery for a better graphics chip and a power supply.

How valuable is Apple COO Tim Cook? Not only are they a $260 billion company with only a handful of products, but half of those products are made out of the same thing… (Via Engadget)

In the 1960s when Lee Iacocca was at Ford he would do the same thing as Drew mentions — multiple products would be created from the same basic parts. The Mustang was a Falcon sedan massaged into a au courant coupe. Various hard-tops and “personal coupes” were created by putting a different nose or different doors on otherwise plain vanilla cars. And Iacocca was also responsible for the massive explosion of accessories that could be had with your Mustang/Thunderbird/Cougar etc. Some people saw this as, indeed still see this, as excessively cynical. They said that people knew the cars were all the same underneath. But, people bought them anyway and paid extra for accessories, whether they were a stripe kit or heavy-duty suspension.

Now, Apple will sell you accessories, but a case or an extra powercord aren’t accessories in the Ford-of-the-1960s sense. Back in the 60s you could change how the car worked by accessorising it. The App Store does that today. Genius.

Source: Engadget

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