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The iPod didn't really evolve in any meaningful way from it's original offering, and the iPad has evolved even less. Those products received a big "Meh" from ea
by esrauch 15y ago
The iPod didn't really evolve in any meaningful way from it's original offering, and the iPad has evolved even less. Those products received a big "Meh" from early adopter types, but it turned out that they weren't targeting those people, they were targeting the vast majority of people who had never heard of Rio MP3 players in 2001, and who don't even know what a hard drive is. The Media Mehs in those cases were because of a fundamental disconnect between what the reviewers expected to be important in a product and what the product actually offered, only to be shown that they can be useful to many people in their simplicity.
I just don't see Siri as something that is going to significantly evolve in a meaningful way. People seem to already find it useful in it's current state though, so I could easily see an argument for analogies to iPod and iPad that most early adopters / people involved in the software industry are notoriously bad at evaluating the current state of these products, even without it having to evolve.