It is still staffed with men and women who took jobs there as their fathers and grandfathers did, people who have been at the plant for decades making quality products.

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"If it sounds like we're control freaks, well, maybe it's because we're so committed to our users and making sure they have a quality experience with our products, " the company writes in its App Store review guidelines.

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One area we think HP needs to be careful is making sure that the first few products launched are high quality, doing a few things well, rather than many things that are buggy.

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For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.

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The cynic might say that Jobs succeeded in making people feel insanely great about being overcharged for his products but the balance between marketing hype and product quality always seemed to work.

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