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>until — shock-horror — they become ubiquitous. there's a huge difference between an ugly peripheral that's bundled with a ubiquitous device (ipods/iphones) an
by gr3yh47 10y ago
>until — shock-horror — they become ubiquitous.
there's a huge difference between an ugly peripheral that's bundled with a ubiquitous device (ipods/iphones) and one that is overpriced and sold separately.
add to this difference apple's declining market share, and all the reasonable outrage over ditching the headphone jack, and good luck with ubiquity
- blowski 10y agoWhen the iPod first came out, Apple had zero market share for MP3 players and just about everything else. This was the time when a big NYT journalist said Apple was close to going bankrupt because they couldn't design anything cool any more, and the iPod would be the failure which finally sank them as a company. So, no, I'm not going to write them off just yet.