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The iPhone 5 Launch Will Be Successful

Harvard Business Review

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Levitt argued that products were more complicated to consumers than most manufacturers considered. He pointed out that the basic product qualities (i.e., a phone needs to make a call) get a product to market.

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