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The iPod is wildly successful because it LACKS many features. This is the success of Jobs and company.


No.

The iPod is successful because it is drop-dead beautiful to look at, and plays digital music adequately. The external visible design is what sells iPods, not the feature set or lack thereof.

The reason it lacks features is simple pure MBA stuff: this way they can spoon-feed the missing features one-by-one in subsequent upgrades, thereby reselling (almost) the same product over and over to the same people, multiplying profits. Nearly all successful businesses do that sort of thing.

Cheers