| famousringo said: iPad sales are a little disappointing. Even after word of iPad unit numbers leaked out in their legal filing yesterday, it was thought that the numbers didn't include iPad 2 launch. Turns out they did. Still, iPhone growth well over 100% and a gross margin back over 40% more than makes up for it. |
Its just too big a device to carry round. Everyone assumes that its a golden egg again, but it is simply too big a device.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
