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The first comment hit the nail on the head though. [...] Now the iPhone. When it hits the streets I guarantee it will sell like hot cakes (though not to you or
by ElbertF 16y ago
The first comment hit the nail on the head though.
[...] Now the iPhone. When it hits the streets I guarantee it will sell like hot cakes (though not to you or me!). It is the must-have yuppie accessory of the decade. I predict they will sell millions of the things before anyone even stops to evaluate what they have actually bought.
- megablast 16y agoI would be surprised if he still does not have one.
- nanairo 16y agoLol... yeah, keep telling yourself that. How did it go? first day: massive queues ==> Everyone on the net: "This is meaningless: they are just the Apple drones following their Apple master's orders" first month: still in high demand ==> Everyone on the net: "Sure, it's going fine now. But wait until all the Apple zealot have got one and then demand will collapse" first year: still in high demand ==> Everyone on the net: "Of course it's a good design, but I may as well buy X from company Y that will only come out in Z months: it's going to completely kill the iPhone. Anyone who is not a zealot will get one". The common theme is that from day one people dismiss Apple gadgets as something that will only appeal the yuppies or the zealots. They said the same of the iPod. But they ended up selling more than 250 million iPods and something like 100+ million iOS devices (though there's a slight overlap between the two groups). At which point do those that buy Apple gadgets stop becoming the minority of zealots/yuppies and _you_ become the minority?