01-18-2014, 09:29 AM
His point was specifically that "no one was going to buy" a bigger phone. Great foresight, and but for his arrogance apple probably could have rolled out a product there was a huge market for and been in a far better position right now, instead of giving android years to grow that niche while they just sat on their laurels. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/jobs-no-ones-going-to-buy-a-big-phone/">http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/jobs ... big-phone/</a><!-- m -->
Just like they are beating down the door for the current one... Shit is priced way too highly for the vast majority of chinese who can get a phone thats only slightly worse for far less.
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Even the pictures in fortune look less crowded than an average shanghai supermarket or mediamarkt. I'm sure the slew of apple shill bloggers have already drafted myriad apologetics about how these are all signs of apple's inevitable dominance of asia though.
Incidentally my google stock is at 1150.
Just like they are beating down the door for the current one... Shit is priced way too highly for the vast majority of chinese who can get a phone thats only slightly worse for far less.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/technology/apples-latest-foray-into-china-gets-a-weak-response.html?hpw&rref=business">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/techn ... f=business</a><!-- m -->
Even the pictures in fortune look less crowded than an average shanghai supermarket or mediamarkt. I'm sure the slew of apple shill bloggers have already drafted myriad apologetics about how these are all signs of apple's inevitable dominance of asia though.
Incidentally my google stock is at 1150.