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> Be the low cost competitor and cannabilize your own market. Otherwise you don’t build the iPhone because you don’t want to lose iPod sales.

The iPhone was a high-cost competitor to the iPod. And Apple knew that multi-function devices usually offered poorer user experiences than more focused, (mostly) single-function devices like the iPod. But they still did the iPhone.




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