Business psychology I don't quite understand yet: People are often willing to pay more money for a product that does one thing than they are for a product that does fifty things. I see this a lot in software sales.
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(incidentally, Al Ries came up with the concept of "positioning" back in the day)
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The difference with the iPhone is that it's a thing you carry everywhere. Converging things you put in your pocket, when it's done right, is compelling. Converging software or home appliances just limits choice for each converged component.
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I think the execution was unusually good (light years ahead of any of the sub-products), which is extremely rare. They also stopped the "phone, iPod, internet communicator" schtick soon after the initial announcement. I quickly became its own category.
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