Steve Jobs’ Genius iPad Marketing Strategy

Business By Deon Cardoza
2 min readDec 21, 2022

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Indeed A Genius Marketer.

Do you remember the reveal of the first-ever iPad?

Watch the above video if you don't.

First, he set an anchor price that was $999. Later he dropped the price to $499.

Now $499 might be expensive, but $499 dropped from $1000 is a good price.

A similar thing happens while you shop online on Amazon or Flipkart.

Easter Egg

It happens because of a psychological bias called the anchoring bias.

What is the Anchoring Bias?

Anchoring bias is a cognitive bias that causes us to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we are given about a topic.

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