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To: JP Sullivan who wrote (148243)	1/15/2013 9:51:26 AM
From: Kelly G.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Apple doesn't have to address the entire segment but should instead aim for the top -- I'm guessing -- 10% where people are up and coming but not quite there in the deluxe group. Even BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi are launching products for them. I agree with your post but I am not sure everyone understands that it is very tricky to offer a less expensive model without being cheap. BMW and Mercedes do not compete in the cheap end. They have offered less expensive models of sufficient quality that a young professional say might buy and then upgrade. (I have one from 1995, never upgraded.) How could Apple do the same without coming off as cheap? I am not really sure either but they could do the plastic back, cheaper screen, less expensive internals as long as it could still run iOS. Would that be enough?

To: JP Sullivan who wrote (148243)	1/15/2013 10:42:43 AM
From: slacker711	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

While I do think that expanding the size of the target market is important, even more important for 2013 is going to be revitalizing iOS. I think it has become conventional wisdom among the tech heads that iOS has become stale and have even noticed comments along those lines on non-tech sites. Apple is simply too big to regain the kind of "cool" status that they used to have, but boring is not where they want to be in handsets. I dont know what that will entail, but whether it is a more advanced Siri, widgets, or something else entirely, I think Apple is going to need to bring some innovation back to iOS. Slacker