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Portable music players got too easy. Apple's strength is doing things either differently or better than everyone before them. The required hardware got commodit
by jarek 17y ago
Portable music players got too easy. Apple's strength is doing things either differently or better than everyone before them. The required hardware got commoditized hard, and if the competition wasn't quite as stylish or polished, they rapidly started being good enough to eat a substantial piece of the cake.
- tptacek 17y agoPortable music players were always easy. Apple always had competition, from big players and from small player, at high price points and low price points, competing on features, competing on design. Portable music players didn't get too easy. Apple ran out of people to sell them to.