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1st generation apple products are never for the masses. If you want to see what Vision will be in a few years, look at their other product trajectories.
by mdanger007 3y ago
1st generation apple products are never for the masses. If you want to see what Vision will be in a few years, look at their other product trajectories.
- Tepix 3y agoThe 1st generation iPhone was successful.
- mdanger007 3y agoiPhone one was $500 when the average phone was $200. It was an upmarket device that eventually got cultural acceptance and reduced in price when produced at mass market scale.
- scarface_74 3y agoJobs stated goal for the first gen iPhone was to have 1% market share in the phone market in the first year. They barely made it. It definitely was a raging success
- reaperducer 3y agoThe 1st generation iPhone was successful. And it cost an unheard of $900 in 2023 money. The internet was awash in people howling that nobody would ever pay that much for a phone. Yet here we are today. (I still have my launch day iPhone!)
- jack_riminton 3y agoFor any normal company yes a home run, but small in relative terms to what Apple has now become iPhone sales by year: 2007: 1.3m 2015: 231m = 17669.2% increase over 8 years
- tcmart14 3y agoWhile that is true, I would also say it was a little bit special. There are many reasons why, but I imagine one is, people loved their iPods. When iPhone came out, you now had both your phone and your iPod in a single device. I do think without iTunes and iTunes integration, iPhone may have been a flop.
- browningstreet 3y agoLots and lots of people were waiting for the iPhone 3G model and skipped the first one. Considering it's the only model with the cell tech in the name (there's no iPhone 5G), I think even Apple knew the first model was a ground laying device, not the "pave the world" model the subsequent versions would become. They still weren't even committed to the app store yet.