> For example he was totally off base that wireless would be feasible in a 2001 machine, with adequate battery life and performance Well I mean, he presumably

> For example he was totally off base that wireless would be feasible in a 2001 machine, with adequate battery life and performance Well I mean, he presumably thought the Nomad was cool, indicating that massive size (nearly a pound!) and shit battery life were not really important to him. The Nokia 9500 came out 3 years later with WiFi and was pretty small, even by today's standards. Could they have put WiFi into a device the size/weight of a Nomad 3 years earlier, and gotten at least some shitty battery life out of it? I suspect so. "Lame-ness" is an opinion, not really something that you could call objectively wrong. (Though obviously I think we all agree that his degree that the iPod was lame was itself lame). Had he said "there is no market for this" instead of merely implying it, then he would have been wrong in a more objective way.