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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
By delivery dates and current estimates of sales for the iPad 3 it seems whatever Apple bet they won.
I'm trying to work out from the thread wether Jobs was a copy artist with no skills other than marketing or a product genius whose absence will inevitably destroy Apple. Both opinions are put forward and appear mutually exclusive to me
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He was a marketing Genius who could accurately detirmine just which features could be jettisoned to improve durability and stability, thereby lowering warrantee costs.
He then marketed highly marked up units which were aesthetically pleasing and reliable but short on features to a market group who became convinced either that owning his stripped down units made them special, or that giving up features for hassle free operation was the right choice for them.
To replace Jobs, Apple has to find another marketing genius who doesn't leave out a feature that the gadget market decides is a must have, and they have to manage to detirmine this consistantly.