badmonk

nubus said:

Japhey said:

Every time Apple releases a new product, it is met with laughter, doubt, and confusion by the outside world. 

There have been many terrible launches. Some never recovered.

• iPhone 1 didn't sell and got a price cut by 33% (!) after 3 months while the base model was removed.
• Lisa (2700 ended in a landfill)
  
• G4 Cube failed on so many levels and then got repeated by the Trash Mac Pro which also failed.
• AppleWatch 0 failed (series 0 was sold as a fashion statement with celebrities and fashion designers). Refocused to be about health made it a success.
• Pippin, Newton, eMate, OpenDoc (did attend the press briefing in London and Apple didn't believe it would fly), AOCE (PowerTalk), iPod HiFi, and the car that never happened. There have been numerous failures.
• Rhapsody - it was only around 10.4 that Mac OS X started really working.

• iPod was right. Sure the FireWire was strange but navigation, storage, sync, charging using data cable,... it was perfect from day 1.
• iPad... same - as a surf + reading tablet with all-day battery at a time when iPhone had a small screen and laptops did 3 hours on a charge.
• AirPods - probably one of the best products ever by Apple. So well designed and integrated.

I really like the idea of Google Glass but a visor? Apple demand that employees are on-site 3 days per week to interact. They have designed their HQ to create interactions. No capes and no visors :-)



Thanks beat me to it and you stated the case better than me.  Remember as well that engineers were unsure iPhone OG was even going to work at it’s first presentation.  Not to mention the drubbing Apple Watch 0 got by the media with its initial presentation.

And it took iterations before the health aspect of  the watch took off and now it dominates the market.

We will see.

tipoo said:

I'm still struggling to see how Apple racks up the data collection miles of Tesla without hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road with the hardware in place and the software running in shadow mode. 200 vehicles is very small. 

robin huber said:

For f-sake would somebody please leverage all this wonderful in-ear audio technology into hearing aids that don’t cost thousands and don’t sound like a tin can on a string? I have yet to meet a hearing aid user who thinks theirs are worth a damn. Plus, with earbuds in you don’t look like a geezer!