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5 Apple Products that totally failed

Apple have a hugely dedicated following. As soon as any new Apple gadget comes out, mostself-respecting Apple fans all too happily flash about their credit cards to purchase a slice ofexclusivity, and finely manufactured product. Despite such a hardcore fan base some Apple

gadgets do fail to hit the ground running so to speak. We look at 5 Apple products that totallyfell on their faces, and some you may not even remember.

1. Power Mac G4 Cube

Looks pretty nice right? Unfortunately the cube stalled after release, due to issues withmanufacturing process of the clear surround and pricing issues. It did however have a cool,convection based cooling system which was completely fan-less! It is seen by many as a pre-

cursor to the Mini. The cube shipped with a 450Mhz cpu, a whopping 64mb of Ram & alarge 20GB HD.

2. Motorola Rokr

The Motorola Rokr, released in 2005 was an Apple Motorola tie up, intending to bringiTunes to a phone. The phone was widely expected, but was restricted to only 100 songs at atime (probably so it wouldnt compete with iPods), and slow transfer times it failed to take

off. Motorola relations were strained when Apple then released the Nano and, in Motorolas

words undercut them.

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3. Apple Newton

Officially, the Message Pad 2000 (running Newton OS) was one of the first PDAs when itwas released way back in 1993. Behind the scenes, you could crunch some serious numbers& notes with a 20 MHz process and 640k of ram. The Newton let you send faxes, emails,

write notes, keep your contacts organized and even recognize hand written words. A $1000price tag, as-well as poor ergonomics lead to this devices eventual failure in 1998. Still, Imsure Apple learned a lot from this device and were able to apply what they had learned on theiPhone which interestingly is almost the exact opposite of the Newton (fairly priced, prettysmall e.t.c)

4. Apple Pippin

The Apple Pippin was released in 1995, in association with Bandai. The Pippin was poweredby a 66-MHzPowerPC 603 processor, a 14.4 kbit/s modem and ran a stripped version of theSystem 7.5.2 operating system. It was designed as a machine that could play multimediaCDs, as well as working as a network computer. It even had a standard video output so as towork with a TV set. By the time the Pippin was released, the market already had the Sega

Saturn, PlayStation & the Nintendo 64.Only 42,000 units sold (at $599), and it became truethat there were actually more accessories manufactured than the units themselves.

5. AppleEWorld

AppleEworld was an online subscription service touted by Apple. The services includedemail (eMail Center), news, and abulletin board system (Community Center). It was createdin association with AOL. The Eworld was based around the concept of a town, with each

building offering a different service such as a learning center or newsroom.Poor marketingand high prices killed Eworld off.

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The Business Analysis Process of New Product Development : - a study

of small and medium size enterprises

University essay from Ume universitet/Handelshgskolan vid Ume universitet; Ume

universitet/Handelshgskolan vid Ume universitet

Author: Luis Barrios; Jonas Kenntoft; [2008]

Keywords:New Product Development; Business analysis;

Abstract:

The world is a very competitive place, every day companies from all over the globe try to beon the edge of their fields in order to keep a good distance from competitors. They havefound in the new product development process or NPD the leverage they needed to build upthat differentiation required to get ahead over competitors. When looking inside the NPD wedecided to focus on a very critical and interesting stage, the business analysis process. The

purpose sought with our research is to provide a better understanding of how small and

medium size enterprises (SMEs) carry out their business analysis stage in the process of newproduct development (NPD), this purpose was first obtained by stating a main problem and tofacilitate the answer to this main problem we proposed two research questions that were laterused to review all of the related literature, which resulted in a conceptual framework2employed to guide this studys data collection. We decided to use the inductive approachand the use of primary data collected with the help of interviews with companies representing

SMEs using a qualitative case study approach through all interviews. It is important tomention that the interviews were also designed with the help of the research questions.

The results allowed us to develop a model that shows how the business analysis process lookslike in the companies studied as well as to highlight the most relevant factors for the twocompanies studied when performing the business analysis. Finally the research let usestablish some suggestions for future researches regarding the business analysis process suchas the differences between small and medium enterprises and larger firms, and the cross-functional activities involved in a business analysis process in larger firms.