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I am outraged! McDonalds has ripped of Apple's iPhone product sizing strategy:

http://news.mcdonalds.com/US/news-stori ... ers-Inspir

http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/compare/

Meh:

The Grand Mac is a BK Double Whopper and the Mac Jr is a BK Junior Whopper. If McD is chasing BK, they've lost.

I'd kill for a Grand Mac right now. My digestive system would pay for it later.

End User wrote:

I'd kill for a Grand Mac right now. My digestive system would pay for it later.

As long as it doesn't have that 100% chemical "char-broiled" flavor that just sickens me at the first bite of a BK burger.

Hey, offering a bazillion different permutations of the same limited set of ingredients seems to have worked out well for Taco Bell...

just brew it! wrote:

Hey, offering a bazillion different permutations of the same limited set of ingredients seems to have worked out well for Taco Bell...

I simply cannot get that drunk anymore, especially if it's a solo mission.

Captain Ned wrote:

I simply cannot get that drunk anymore, especially if it's a solo mission.

That's a sign of progress, no doubt.

just brew it! wrote:

Hey, offering a bazillion different permutations of the same limited set of ingredients seems to have worked out well for Taco Bell...

At least the textures and/or preparation are slightly different, I feel like Taco Bell sorta gets away with it. Tim Horton's, on the other hand... their floppy shoe-bacon, rubber buns & bread, cellophane lettuce, and recycled paper tortillas are not appealing in any combination. They've been recycling their menu for like a decade now. Why is this chain so dominant?!

TwistedKestrel wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

Hey, offering a bazillion different permutations of the same limited set of ingredients seems to have worked out well for Taco Bell...

At least the textures and/or preparation are slightly different, I feel like Taco Bell sorta gets away with it. Tim Horton's, on the other hand... their floppy shoe-bacon, rubber buns & bread, cellophane lettuce, and recycled paper tortillas are not appealing in any combination. They've been recycling their menu for like a decade now. Why is this chain so dominant?!

Because it is awesome! Take Off, Eh!

Hoser!!

It's not like the idea is original to Apple. In fact, at least for Apple can trace it back, via John Scully, to the cola companies. Once upon a time you could get cola in one size of bottles, and one size of cans. That changed in the 80s, and Scully brought the same mindset to Apple.

The Scully era was finally put out to pasture with the launch of the iMac in August 1998. Apple's product lineup pre iMac had a million and 1 skus. One cannot compare the Scully era to the 2nd coming of Jobs in any way, shape, or form.

End User wrote:

I am outraged! McDonalds has ripped of Apple's iPhone product sizing strategy:

http://news.mcdonalds.com/US/news-stori ... ers-Inspir

http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/compare/

That product-line up strategy predates both companies by centuries.

It's wrong of me to let this thread make me kinda hungry, but here we are.

Krogoth wrote:

That product-line up strategy predates both companies by centuries.  :roll:

Oh yeah.  I hear Sophocles wrote up most of the Theban Plays while chewing through a stack of Gyro Jr.s and raising a goblet to Dionysus.

ludi wrote:

Krogoth wrote:

That product-line up strategy predates both companies by centuries.  :roll:

Oh yeah.  I hear Sophocles wrote up most of the Theban Plays while chewing through a stack of Gyro Jr.s and raising a goblet to Dionysus.

Was he using a 5" or 7" iSlate?

ludi wrote:

Oh yeah.  I hear Sophocles wrote up most of the Theban Plays while chewing through a stack of Gyro Jr.s and raising a goblet to Dionysus.

That is funny AF..

ludi wrote:

Krogoth wrote:

That product-line up strategy predates both companies by centuries.  :roll:

Oh yeah.  I hear Sophocles wrote up most of the Theban Plays while chewing through a stack of Gyro Jr.s and raising a goblet to Dionysus.

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