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Reminds me of this story. Substitute Apple for Google and Panic for you: http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ Ex
by mturmon 15y ago
Reminds me of this story. Substitute Apple for Google and Panic for you:
http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Excerpts:
We [at Panic] also seem to remember that Jobs painted us a vibrant (but genuinely honest) picture of how he viewed Audion [our product] fairing against iTunes:
"It's like you guys are a little push-cart going down the railroad tracks, and we're a giant steam engine about to run you down."
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I remember [Jobs] asked, "Do you have any other ideas for apps you want to work on?"
I replied, genuinely, "Well, we've got an idea for a digital photo management program..." and he replied with a simple, "Yeah. Don't do that one."
Everyone in the room laughed but I had no idea why — remember, my head was still exploding — so Steven Frank had to explain to me that he meant, basically, it was already being made and, of course, it would be called iPhoto. Oh. I get it now.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoThanks for the link. Very educational. I see it was discussed on HN long time ago. However Audion story is quite different from Google Buzz / Code Search story. Apple didn't kill iTunes. Audion would have died anyway, because they didn't find free business model for their MP3 player. Audion story is educational in terms of missing key business opportunities.