Garcian Smith said:
And how, exactly, has Apple "defied analyst predictions over the past few years"? Sure, they have with their computer lines, but that's because they offer a good, high-quality second choice in the near-monopolistic personal computer market. All of their new products as of late, however - Apple TV, I'm looking at you - have not seen anywhere near the success of the iPod. Seriously, every time Apple comes out with a new non-personal-computer product, everyone states that it'll be "the next iPod" in terms of success. However, Apple still have to prove that they can make the "next iPod" - or, in other words, that the iPod phenomenon wasn't just an innovative but overzealous company in the right place at the right time. |
It is certainly true that AppleTV has not taken on as predicted, but where do you place iPhone? I would think that it has been a great success, and IMO it's a new product, though it is also an iPod.
Anyway, the first iPod was launched in 23rd of October 2001, but iPods didn't really start selling great until the christmas of 2004, at what time Apple had lauched already the fouth generation of iPod Classics, and at the beginning of that year, iPod Mini, so it's a bit unfair to say that they just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
