First, it will be the first new product category since Steve Jobs passed away.
Depending on the product category, some of these questions are more important than others.
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The third path to international success is going for global leadership in a narrow product category.
Disruptive innovation involves discarding conventional assumptions about how a particular product category works.
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Volvo can check the quality product category, as succeeded in seceding from the Ford empire.
Samsung single-handedly created a new product category, the "phablet, " in 2011 with its Galaxy Note.
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Zuckerberg: We think every product category is going to get transformed to be more social.
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First, smart marketers must legitimize the product category in a shopper's mind before their pitch even begins.
Creating a new product category is essential for Apple to break out of its current trading pattern.
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Pampers now ranks No. 1 in a product category that barely existed just a few years ago.
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Solid-state drives (SSD) with 32 MB to 120 GB of storage capacity, represent the final product category.
This year, Thomas Heatherwick's shortlisted Olympic cauldron lost out to Kit Yamoto's anti-diarrhoea kits in the product category.
The following graphic compares 2011 actual sales and the latest forecast for 2016 by enterprise software product category.
However, should Apple introduce a new product category , such as an iWatch, it would be a certain catalyst.
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Already being sold in both the US and in France, Aerohost will shaken the multi billion energy-drink product category.
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For each product category a 16-ounce carton of milk, say well-off households paid an average of 25% more than poor households.
This new product category is helping bring more customers into its stores and boosting store productivity according to one analyst.
There will be a new product that counts as a new product category, so think iPhone or iPad-type of impact.
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Vendors are sorted by product category, then called one at a time into a curtained-off area to meet with merchandisers.
Since 1966, Star Trek has expanded into virtually every product category imaginable, turning the show into what is essentially a lifestyle.
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Response reports that cosmetics and personal care is the leading product category on infomercials, followed by housewares and appliances--the famous vegetable slicers.
Develop the kind of product category specialization that drove success at Walmart.
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The floors are grouped by product category, with similar products placed together.
The iPod defines a product category, as Sony's Walkman once did when music was delivered on cassette instead of over the internet.
At the same time, Apple needs to re-establish its leadership position in the cool, cutting edge, I need to have that product category.
One of the biggest problems with history-based recommendation engines, particularly for broad product category e-commerce sites, is that they leverage the wrong signal.
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Many brands will analyze the market and the competitive landscape for the product category to determine where the new product will be positioned.
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China now accounts for most of the U.S. trade gap in manufactured goods, and it competes against U.S. companies in virtually every product category.
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Bloomberg analyst Anand Srinivasan has compared the watch market to the TV market, the other likely product category that Apple could launch into next.
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In this manner, the incremental earnings that a new product category, like the iWatch, could generate would help propel the stock back to previous levels.
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