Opinion: Here’s what I’d do to rationalize Apple’s MacBook lineup<div class="feat-image">
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<p>Apple has long been about simplicity and minimalism. Steve Jobs’ philosophy was effectively that usability trumps choice. Sure, you lose the ability to customize your iPhone or iPad in the way you can an Android device without jailbreaking it, but what you gain in return is a device that is both more reliable and a lot more secure.</p>
<p>Jobs applied that same philosophy to Apple’s product range. When he returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he did was to rationalize the company’s product lineup, paring it back to the essentials. In 2008, he proudly told
<a href="http://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/6.html" target="_blank">Fortune[/url] that <span class="s1">“Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major products.”</span></p>
<p>Apple has, for the most part, maintained that approach ever since, famously saying ‘no’ to a thousand product ideas for every time it says ‘yes.’ But I still think there’s a little more work to be done in terms of rationalizing the company’s MacBook lineup …</p>
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