Quoting Stevie:
"A lot of Apple watchers were convinced you were working on a device like
the Palm
or the Pocket PC. What made you turn your attention to MP3
players?
You can't imagine how many people think we're crazy for not
doing a Palm. I won't lie;
we thought about that a lot. But I started asking myself,
How useful are they, really?
How many people at a given meeting show up with one? Whether
I was here or at
Disney or at Pixar, the percentage peaked about a year ago
at 50%, and it's now
dwindled to less than 10%. It kind of went up really fast
and then went down. I don't
mean to be disrespectful to those guys at Palm at all. I'm
just saying I don't think early
cultures had organizers, but I do know they had music. It's
in our DNA. Everybody loves
it. This isn't a speculative market. "
Curious, if you apply a similar line of reasoning to MacIntosh's having
less than 10% of the PC market then there is no reason to be making them
either. Same for computers in general, don't know of many early cultures
that had them either.
Also, I'll be danged if I can find the meeting that has less than 50% of
the people at it with PDA's.
Have to agree on this part though: "....crazy for not doing a Palm. I
won't lie;
we thought about that a lot. But I started asking myself,
How useful are they, really?"
Guess he forgot they made something better a few years ago....
Randy
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