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Originally Posted by PatNY
No companies follow trends just to follow trends. They follow trends to retain or grow market share and to preserve or grow revenues. Apple is no different.
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Apple is quite different from, say, Samsung. Samsung puts out products at all price points, in a huge variety of sizes and features. Throw stuff out and see what sticks (like the new curved phone).
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Originally Posted by PatNY
Apple found itself behind the curve on both "phablets" and mid-sized tablets, and so they jumped on the bandwagon well after those trends had developed.
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Just like Apple "was way behind on netbooks". Apple never made a netbook, and has yet to make a "phablet". Or a low cost mac book. Or a convertible tablet/computer.
Apple is rarely the first to market with anything. A few things Apple will be early on. But when Apple does make it's move, it's well though out .
Take a look at the finger print scanner on the Atrix of a year ago (or was it more?) or the HTC just released compared to the iTouch. Apple doesn't put out a feature just to put it out.
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Everything we've heard about Jobs and his objection to smaller tablets confirms that. When he passed away, his successors wasted no time in ignoring his previous edicts and rushed to compete with the Galaxy Tab 7
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Yep. They just rushed out a cr@p product to compete with the junk the marginless Android competitors were pumping out. Except that it wasn't 7" and it it wasn't low cost. It was an iPad, only smaller, thinner, lighter. Running the 350,000 made for iPad apps flawlessly.
Steve Jobs changed his mind all the time. Remember he also said "nobody reads" and yet prominently included books at the debut of the iPad. Said nobody wants to watch movies on a tiny screen then came out with the iPod Video. Said that iTunes would never come out on Windows...but agreed to do so anyway. Whether he changed his mind or was speaking to throw off the competition....you can never say "Steve Jobs would never..." based on anything he said.
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Expect to see more bandwagon jumping in the near future from Apple as they put out a phablet in the 5" range.
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Didn't happen again this year. Nor did they come out with a cheap iPhone. Nor one with a keyboard. Nor NFC support. Nor Adobe Flash support (remember that?)
It may happen, when Apple can do so at a great experience which includes all the existing application catalog running excellently.