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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Nowadays the pressure is on to bring out new products all the time. Nobody can get it right the first time.
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Not only that. Let's take another example: the 2006 model year of a car, brand XYZ, is launched with steel rims, AC and Automatic as option. Three years later, the same company comes up with an 'improved' model - in fact, the same model as before, just a minor facelift, but now is offered with alloy rims, AC and automatic as standard.
Have you ever thought that Apple could have applied the same strategy in case of the iPhone? So, they sold the minimal-feature product for a year, then they launched the 'improved' version, at almost not supplemental cost to them, but that kept all their customers happy.
Just another marketing strategy - product up-sizing -, not invented by Apple, but applied successfully.
Returning to M$ - it took them three years to fix their latest product - Vista - which proved to be a disaster. How about that, Mr. Wolf?