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Exactly what I thought when I saw the title. Kamen blithely forecast that by the end of 2002, his enterprise would be stamping out 10,000 machines a week. Mean
by prospero 17y ago
Exactly what I thought when I saw the title.
Kamen blithely forecast that by the end of 2002, his enterprise would be stamping out 10,000 machines a week. Meanwhile, his best-known backer, venture capitalist John Doerr, predicted Segway would rack up $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/segway.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/segway.html
- gojomo 17y agoYes. Thanks for digging up the specifics. I'm actually very bullish on the iPad, and the category of touch/tablet computers... but couldn't resist pointing out the similarity to Doerr's Segway boosterism.
- DannoHung 17y agoYou know... if they were pushing out 10k units a week, the damn things might actually be cheap enough that people would be willing to buy one.