Has the iPhone cannibalized the iPad? An asymmetric competition model

Mariangela Guidolin and Renato Guseo

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2020, vol. 36, issue 3, 465-476

Abstract: Product cannibalization is a well‐known phenomenon in marketing, describing the case when a new product steals sales from another product under the same brand. A special case of cannibalization may occur when the older product reacts to the competitive strength of the newer one, absorbing the corresponding market shares. We show that such cannibalization occurred between two Apple products, the iPhone and the iPad, and the first has succeeded at the expense of the second. We propose an innovation diffusion model for asymmetric competition, Lotka‐Volterra with asymmetric competition, allow to test the presence and the extent of the inverse cannibalization phenomenon. A nondimensional representation of the model helps showing the effects of cannibalization on life cycle length.

Date: 2020
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