Comments on: The Art of Selling: Part II http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/the-art-of-selling-part-ii "A black market is a free market operating against the wishes of the state." –Harry Browne. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=6898 By: coldtusker http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/the-art-of-selling-part-ii#comment-3457 coldtusker Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:23:09 +0000 http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/?p=714#comment-3457 Look at the iPhone... nothing new (software?) but a media frenzy... Nevertheless OSX is far better than windows... waiting for leopard...

Look at the iPhone… nothing new (software?) but a media frenzy…

Nevertheless OSX is far better than windows… waiting for leopard…

]]> By: kenyanentrepreneur http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/the-art-of-selling-part-ii#comment-3453 kenyanentrepreneur Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:44:38 +0000 http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/?p=714#comment-3453 I guess it's the same concept with the IPod -- The technology was not new and steve jobs did not invent it. He just took that technology and packaged into a sleek looking musical device and as you said, the colors (all white, all pink)...that's the first thing I noticed when I first started seeing people with ipods - What cool looking device is that? I suppose this brings us back to the issue of artistic creativity (at least as it applies to consumer goods)

I guess it’s the same concept with the IPod — The technology was not new and steve jobs did not invent it. He just took that technology and packaged into a sleek looking musical device and as you said, the colors (all white, all pink)…that’s the first thing I noticed when I first started seeing people with ipods – What cool looking device is that?

I suppose this brings us back to the issue of artistic creativity (at least as it applies to consumer goods)

]]> By: coldtusker http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/the-art-of-selling-part-ii#comment-3452 coldtusker Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:26:12 +0000 http://www.kenyanentrepreneur.com/?p=714#comment-3452 Its not the product... its the sell... Betamax was far superior to VHS but VHS won out... We know of many such products/ideas that fail... Look at Mac vs Windows... Mac (IMHO) is a far superior product but until recently it was not on the radar of most users. Many of Windows "new" features are copied off the Mac OS. That said... it was only after Steve Jobs started "selling" Macs that they burst onto the market in good numbers. Of course, the iPod drove people to view Apple as a Microsoft rival. Apple introduced the iMacs (the candy/fruit coloured computers) to great acclaim! Then other manufacturers copied them but it put Apple back in the market... The selling point was NOT the iMac or Apple or the OS but the "colours"...

Its not the product… its the sell…

Betamax was far superior to VHS but VHS won out…
We know of many such products/ideas that fail…

Look at Mac vs Windows… Mac (IMHO) is a far superior product but until recently it was not on the radar of most users. Many of Windows “new” features are copied off the Mac OS.

That said… it was only after Steve Jobs started “selling” Macs that they burst onto the market in good numbers. Of course, the iPod drove people to view Apple as a Microsoft rival.

Apple introduced the iMacs (the candy/fruit coloured computers) to great acclaim! Then other manufacturers copied them but it put Apple back in the market…

The selling point was NOT the iMac or Apple or the OS but the “colours”…

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