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I guess the iPod is also a failure then since no one uses them anymore.

• zeusk 5y ago
  iPhone, very widely used today was described by Apple itself as "An iPod, a Phone, and an Internet Communicator" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK55ElsVzxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK55ElsVzxM
  • codetrotter 5y ago
    Steve Jobs was so good at what he did. I am still a bit sad that he is gone when I think about it, because I would have really liked to meet him.
• bombcar 5y ago
  No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. The original iPod wasn’t a thunderous success but Apple continued to iterate on it and when they release a non-FireWire version that worked with Windows it really took off. Had they dogmatically insisted on FireWire and Mac only it may have remained a niche thing. And of course it greatly contributed to the success of the iPhone because why not get an iPod that could make calls and save pocket space?
  • ghaff 5y ago
    Neither the original iPod nor the original iPhone were really devices that most people really viewed as world-changing on their release. I got on at the 4th gen click-wheel iPod and the iPhone 3GS and those were the on-ramps for a lot of other people do. (And I wasn't a Mac user until 2010.)
• kube-system 5y ago
  When iPod sales peaked, Apple was selling as many in a single fiscal quarter as the number of MiniDisc players Sony sold over 20 years… about 22 million. Sony sold 18 million BetaMax players.