... release of products, introducing older products into newer markets, and saving the launch of a product's most recent version for well-developed markets. For example, Apple could sell its older-model laptops, particularly unsold, leftover stock, to a less-developed market after it launches a new laptop model. The older model may be outdated by American or European consumer standards of operating speed and ... long ago, Apple was a boutique PC maker. Since then, it has rolled over almost every company in its path, first with music players, then with cellphones and, more recently, with lap...

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