Friday, March 24, 2006 |
19:11 - Little Runaway
http://daringfireball.net/2006/03/ipod_juggernaut
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Four years on and change, and John Gruber can hardly be said to be jumping the gun on this speculation that the iPod is an economic and pop-cultural juggernaut unprecedented in modern history and with no natural enemies to worry about.
Present are retrospective looks at pundits all across the board who were flat wrong on all their informed hypotheses, Jobs' intuition on the nature of Apple's mistakes while he wasn't there to make things right (and where he sure seems to have an instinct), refutations of popular misconceptions about things like iPods' prices, and the nature of a market where the temptation to try to compete on features is just a big tar pit lurking to snare unwary companies. The bottom line is that Apple is putting all its rocks in the "get market share at all costs" basket this time around, rather than trying to mine existing capital for profit; and by all indications it's a decision that will make Apple a household name for years to come, rather than a shameful laughingstock.
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