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It’s an Apple product. All Apple products sell 200 billion units a year. Anything else is a failure. The Apple Watch was a failure. The iPad was a failure. Air
by MBCook 3y ago
It’s an Apple product. All Apple products sell 200 billion units a year. Anything else is a failure.
The Apple Watch was a failure. The iPad was a failure. AirPods were a failure. The HomePod lineup is a failure. The Apple TV is a failure.
I’m just about positive you can find a whole bunch of think pieces about each of those from not too long after their launches. Because if it doesn’t sell iPhone level numbers it’s obviously a total mistake that they tried.
But the Apple Watch just kept selling better and better. The iPad had a slump after the initial hype, but it’s still selling extremely well all these years later. AirPods have done so terribly there are three different current models. I don’t know if we know numbers about HomePods and the Apple TV but they keep making new versions.
There are so many companies in the world that would kill to run one of Apple’s “failure“ product lines and sell that many units.
It’s really hard to “succeed” when everything you make is compared to the world changing iPhone as a yardstick.
This could be a stumble out of the gate and you could be right about your comment. Or they could give up after a while. But they obviously spent a lot of money on this product, I don’t think they’re going to declare to failure and close up shop after three months.