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LindsayRichards wrote:

The feee market will usually pick the product that puts the most money into marketing. Unfortunately that leaves less for R&D...

Henry Ford and Thomas Edison would disagree as would Apple, Microsoft, and millions of other companies. Folks who do not innovate, don't last too long. Ask Palm Pilot, Royal typewriters, Sears, Blockbuster, Hostess Brands and a whole lot more. Savy business people know this to their core.

Haven't you heard the famous Henry Ford quote "You can have any color you want, as long as its black"? What about the Ford Edsel and Pinto?

As far as Apple and Microsoft, neither invented the computer windowing system nor the computer mouse. Those were invented by Xerox Parc research labs. Steve Jobs toured the labs, and within a few years out came the Apple Lisa, then the Apple Macintosh with windowing systems and a mouse. Except Apple dumbed the mouse down and gave it just one button.

I have an Apple iPhone and it is a nice piece of hardware, however Apple spent way to much time on the design details, things like rounded corners and glass fronts and backs, and not enough time on details that matter. Great camera, 8 megapixel. However when you browse your photos, they can't show the time/date stamp of the photo, unlike a point and shoot camera. Who made that great design decision? They believe you can get that information when you download the photos to your computer. Apple's downfall will be that they do not believe in customer research, they think they know better than the consumer what the consumer wants.