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Chapter 21 — Beyond One-and-Done

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1 Figure 21.2 — A Typical Monobloc rest chair, modeled after Henry Massonnet's 1972 Fauteuil 300 commons.wikimedia.org 🟡 No archive
2 Figure 21.8 — The Centennial Light Bulb from Livermore, CA commons.wikimedia.org 🟡 No archive
3 Figure 21.9 — Nespresso Turmix C-100, 1990 nespresso.com 🟡 No archive
4 Figure 21.11 — Nespresso Inissia nespresso.com 🟡 No archive
5 Figure 21.13 — Xerox 914 (1959), the first plain-paper office copier si.edu 🟡 No archive
6 Figure 21.14 — Servers in a rack: the real hardware behind the cloud commons.wikimedia.org 🟡 No archive
7 Figure 21.16 — Human Machine Interface makes industrial equipment user friendly puro-systems.com 🟡 No archive
8 Figure 21.19 — Apple's iCloud: a gentle, monthly upsell apple.com 🟡 No archive
9 Figure 21.20 — macOS Migration Assistant: your digital identity travels with you support.apple.com 🟡 No archive
10 Figure 21.21 — Google Pay: a slice of every transaction commons.wikimedia.org 🟡 No archive
11 Figure 21.22 — Samsung Galaxy Store: trying to play the marketplace layer news.samsung.com 🟡 No archive
12 Figure 21.23 — Roku Channel Store developer.roku.com 🟡 No archive
13 Figure 21.24 — Roku streaming devices roku.com 🟡 No archive
14 Google Patents – US 4,136,202 (Nestlé Nespresso capsule design) patents.google.com 🟢 Archived
15 Gompertz function – sigmoidal growth curve used to model product-diffusion and sales saturation. See Wikipedia: Gompertz function en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
16 Samsung Galaxy S series – annual flagship cadence since the original Galaxy S in 2010; full release history at Wikipedia: Samsung Galaxy S series en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
17 Charles H. Fine, Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Perseus Books, 1998). Fine, an MIT Sloan professor, classified industries by the rate at which their products, processes, and organizations evolve archive.org 🟡 No archive
18 Logistic function – symmetric S-shaped curve modeling growth that accelerates, then decelerates toward a saturation plateau. Used here for furniture-style adoption that ramps to a stable level without near-term decline. See Wikipedia: Logistic function en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
19 US Bureau of Economic Analysis, NIPA Handbook bea.gov 🟡 No archive
20 Phoebus cartel – international consortium of lightbulb manufacturers (1924–1939) that standardized bulb lifetimes to ~1,000 hours, widely cited as the canonical case of planned obsolescence. See Wikipedia: Phoebus cartel en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
21 Randal C. Picker, "The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s)," University of Chicago Law Review 78, no. 1 (2011): 225–256 lawreview.uchicago.edu 🟡 No archive
22 Xerox 914 lease pricing: $95 per month, with a 2,000-copy base rate and $0.04 per copy beyond it. Manufacturing cost figure (~$29,500) and contemporary pricing reported in the Wikipedia entry on the model, citing period business-press sources. See Wikipedia: Xerox 914 en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
23 Roku, Inc. – Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter (February 12, 2026). Full-year 2025 Platform revenue (which includes The Roku Channel and the advertising marketplace) reached $4.145 billion, up 18% YoY image.roku.com 🟡 No archive
24 Apple Services segment revenue – which includes iCloud storage, the App Store, Apple Music, AppleCare, advertising, and payment services – reached $96.2 billion in FY2024 at an operating margin of approximately 73%. iCloud is reported inside Services but not broken out as a separate line. See Apple… apple.com 🟡 No archive
25 Apple Pay collects an estimated 0.15% issuer fee per US transaction (lower or zero in many international markets per locally-negotiated terms). Widely reported in industry coverage of the 2014 launch agreement between Apple and major US banks. See Wikipedia: Apple Pay – Business model en.wikipedia.org 🟡 No archive
26 Apple App Store ecosystem facilitated approximately $1.1 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2022, of which roughly $104 billion was digital goods and services billed through the App Store (the segment subject to Apple's 15–30% commission). Google Play gross billings for the same year ran… apple.com 🟡 No archive

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