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Eh, probably a poor example considering the iPhone 4 was hardly a flop and was still broadly considered the best smartphone out at the time. The people who thou
by Closi 3y ago
Eh, probably a poor example considering the iPhone 4 was hardly a flop and was still broadly considered the best smartphone out at the time. The people who thought this was a total-showstopper were, on the whole, probably wrong.
Counter-example: lots of people said an on-screen keyboard would never really work when the original iPhone was being released.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Eh, probably a poor example considering the iPhone 4 was hardly a flop and was still broadly considered the best smartphone out at the time. The people who thought this was a total-showstopper were, on the whole, probably wrong. At least in Germany among tech nerds, the iPhone 4 and Steve Jobs become topics of insane ridicule because of this incident.
- Closi 3y agoWell it appears that ridicule from the German tech nerds isn’t a good predictor of product success then