They discovered innovations were handed off to traditional market category teams and included in existing product lines.
So if Apple wants to grow with its existing product line, an ongoing profit squeeze is inevitable.
And this approach works well when confronted with relatively simple challenge like introducing an existing product into an adjacent market.
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If the Mac maker intends to move in this direction, investors must wonder when the existing product lines will be terminated.
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Since then, nothing too exciting has shown up at the event, with companies focusing on expanding and evolving their existing product lines.
Kodak said it will honor existing product warranties and provider technical support and service for its cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames.
Think of past examples where you have taken an existing product or process and used your unique set of skills and expertise to improve results.
But wring every dollar of profit of your existing product portfolio.
Doubtless, much of the tech punditry will agonize over whether Google is doing anything really new here, or just executing its own version of an existing product.
Apple's challenge is that getting people to buy an iPod, a new type of device, is easier than getting them to switch loyalties in an existing product category.
Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues.
By pursuing such initiatives while developing the full sales potential of existing product lines like the V-22 Osprey and CH-47 Chinook rotorcraft, Boeing may be able to grow military earnings even as defense demand softens in the years ahead.
Atheros is best known for its Wi-Fi chipsets, but also makes components for Bluetooth, Ethernet and GPS. This acquisition helps Qualcomm supplement its existing product portfolio and establish a position in the chipset market for tablets and other non-handset devices.
The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people.
The story also notes that Cook promised in the interview that one of the existing Mac product lines will be manufactured in the United States starting next year.
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Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.
In businesses, this type of collaboration focuses on developing creative solutions or ideas that improve an existing process or product.
They take its existing Facebook Connect product a few steps further by bringing users' Facebook friends lists to external sites and showing them their friends' activity.
Having launched a development platform for real-time analytics applications and a fully integrated ultrasonic signal conditioner for automotive parking distance applications, TI added to its existing industrial portfolio new product development in the LED division last month.
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For devices with a more moderate risk, however, firms need only show that a new product resembles an existing one.
The company is also known for avoiding rotten products and for retroactively applying any decline in product prices to existing customers as well as to new ones.
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The number of influencers online is not a huge number and their support of a new project can be vital to a start-up launching a new app or to an existing company with a new product to promote.
The challenge is that sustaining growth and innovation through acquisition is good when the goal is to address real customer problems but not when the goal is the more cynical goal of merely selling yet another product through an existing sales channel to an existing customer base.
People can join an already existing group that wants a certain product or brand.
For product features on an existing business, this is a performance test that compares various web page presentations against one another.
Clusters can offer product and market innovation opportunities to existing manufacturers.
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Each Monday morning at Apple, CEO Tim Cook meets with the other nine members of the executive team, just as Jobs did before him, to review the business, look at how existing products are faring, discuss every new product under development and talk over issues affecting the company.
Several analysts told Kitco News that it appears the main factor differentiating this planned product from the majority of the existing ETFs in North America is the ability of investors to get their hands on physical gold or silver whenever they choose to exit, although they could also cash out.
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The buzz on your revolutionary product is mute if the product is merely a reiteration of an existing design.
Rather than promoting the MaxRoam SIMs in store, Woolworths will be using their existing telecom, Woolworths Mobile, for the global product.
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