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Types of products

Types of products

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Types of products

- Everything around you is a product, the computer at your desk, the email service you use, the faucet edger kitchen sink, or the transit system in your hometown. A common misconception about products is that they have to be objects, they don't. A product can be many different types of things that you use every day. And it could be a thing that you take for granted. Let's look at a couple of examples to better understand what a product actually is. Let's start with something that you can clearly identify with as a product, your smartphone, when you think of your smartphone, there are lots of pieces about it that immediately comes to mind. First is the physical hardware, the phone itself. It includes all the circuits, processors, sensors, storage, body, and screen. This is a user product. Each of the components inside of the phone are products in and at themselves, and they need to be designed, built, tested, and…

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