Samuel Milham – 1/10/2007
Apple, yesterday, had just announced their newest product: the Iphone. This is both a surprising move and one that makes complete sense. To elaborate, this is quite a unforeseen move by apple because they are, at this moment, one of the biggest audio player manufacturers, so a logical conclusion for them would be to continue to manufacture what is making them money, not “cannibalize” their own product line. This is also brilliant because it keeps them ahead of the competition, because, if it wasn’t them making it, it would be Microsoft, or Nokia. Speaking of Nokia, Apple making this move also expanded who they could sell their products to. Now, instead of just an audio player, its also a cell phone (among other things), which can now put them into more markets without making more products, which makes it much more compelling to buy an Iphone.