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...mouse and keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, figured he could do better, so he had Apple engineers noodle around with a better touchscreen. When they showed him the screen they came up with, he got excited. So excited that he thought he had the beginnings of a new product...
...Jobs's zealousness about product development- and enforcing his personal vision-remains as relentless as ever. He keeps Apple's management structure unusually flat for a 20,000-person company, so he can see what's happening at ground level. There is just one committee in the whole of Apple, to establish prices. I can't think of a comparable company that does no-zero-market research with its customers before releasing a product. Ironically, Jobs's personal style could not be more at odds with the brand he has created. If the motto for Apple's consumers is "think...
...European restaurants. "It's a great idea. The timing was right," she says. In 2002-03, Bionade sold 2 million bottles. By 2006, it was available in Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries, and sold 70 million. Leipold, now 69, is relieved the company's faith in its product is paying off. "We were just too early," he says...
...able to keep up with demand. But Kowalsky and Co. are hatching plans to sell Bionade in Japan and North America by 2008. The U.S. is a tough market, says Gary Hemphill, managing director of Beverage Marketing Corp. in New York City: "The odds are stacked against any new product. If it is something that is foreign to people, then the company has to be able to communicate what the benefits...
...Pentagon source also contended that the ability to target Qaeda figures in Somalia is a positive by-product of the Iraq war. "We have a much better handle on Al Qaeda and its operations than we ever would have had we not gone to war in Iraq," he said. "That is not a reason for going to war, or trying to backdate a rationale, but it is a fact now. It is an unintended positive consequence...