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Your assessment, whether correct or not (I've no idea), has an oddly familiar ring: > “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to mak

Your assessment, whether correct or not (I've no idea), has an oddly familiar ring: > “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” -- November 16, 2006, Palm CEO, Ed Colligan > “Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail…. Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits… When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good.” -- December 07, 2006, CNET, Michael Kanellos http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/06/29/iphone-turns-5-here-are-the-naysayers/ http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/06/29/iphone-turns-5-here-ar...

sangnoir 10y ago
> Your assessment, whether correct or not (I've no idea), has an oddly familiar ring I'm going to go ahead and claim your argument adds little value due to overgeneralization. Just because some guys were wrong in their criticism of Apple doesn't mean everyone who criticizes Apple is wrong. If I weren't feeling lazy, I would produce a long list of quotations that wrongly claimed the iPad would deprecate desktop computing (from both inside Apple and outside). The term "post-PC era" was being bandied about. So no, Apple doesn't always achieve their goals - even stated ones.
- matt4077 10y ago
  The analogy was fitting because it was basically the same argument: "they're not (phone|car) people...". It doesn't mean that it's a certain success, but it does show that Apple can innovate in new areas and complacency is possibly not the best idea for the current market leaders.
  - zajd 10y ago
    Building a car is a little different than a phone, from pretty much any perspective.
    - sambeau 10y ago
      Not an electric car. They are pretty much batteries and software.

sangnoir 10y ago

> Your assessment, whether correct or not (I've no idea), has an oddly familiar ring I'm going to go ahead and claim your argument adds little value due to overgeneralization. Just because some guys were wrong in their criticism of Apple doesn't mean everyone who criticizes Apple is wrong. If I weren't feeling lazy, I would produce a long list of quotations that wrongly claimed the iPad would deprecate desktop computing (from both inside Apple and outside). The term "post-PC era" was being bandied about. So no, Apple doesn't always achieve their goals - even stated ones.

matt4077 10y ago
The analogy was fitting because it was basically the same argument: "they're not (phone|car) people...". It doesn't mean that it's a certain success, but it does show that Apple can innovate in new areas and complacency is possibly not the best idea for the current market leaders.
- zajd 10y ago
  Building a car is a little different than a phone, from pretty much any perspective.
  - sambeau 10y ago
    Not an electric car. They are pretty much batteries and software.