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I've seen variations of this article so many times, where are the counter examples? What were people saying about the Apple TV, Macbook Air or any other failure
by keatsta 17y ago
I've seen variations of this article so many times, where are the counter examples? What were people saying about the Apple TV, Macbook Air or any other failure you can think of when it was first announced? The moral here isn't "The iPad will end up being good, too" as so many people I have seen take from it, just that it's hard to predict what will be a commercial success based on stats, or more frankly, how good it is.
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoNot sure why the Macbook Air is considered such a big failure. Do you have any data that supports this? I don't, but anecdotally they don't seem to be a major flop. We have a number of MBAs in our team, and everyone using them are very happy with them. They still seem to sell when I go into a Mac store.
- keatsta 17y agoI mentioned it only based on what I had heard from my own coworkers and such. Most of the data I'm looking up now show it being a moderate success commercially, albeit with declining profits. My point remains, though, as I don't think the majority of the comments made about it at the time of unveiling were predicting "moderate success".
- lurkinggrue 17y agoI would think the iPad will be successful but that isn't what worries me. The path apple is going down with locked down systems and being succesful with that approach kinda scares me. I just think: "Why 2010 will be like 1984."