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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
Well, unfortunately Steve is no longer around to let them know. 
Seriously. The "masses" didn't know they wanted a 10" touch-based tablet until just two short years ago, remember? Surely you recall the lead-up to that, and the calls for failure and "why" and "what does it replace" and "who the hell wants to type on an onscreen keyboard" and so on. |
This is true. But at the same time, the masses have been saying, very loudly, that they hate PCs. We sort of blocked it out and brushed it away as "normal", but the complaining never truly stopped. PCs have always been so far away of being a technological companion to someone's regular life, and we simply stopped noticing. The problem was right there in our eyes, and iPad solved it.
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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
What I'm saying is if Apple put it out there, it's going to sell.
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This isn't always true (Apple TV, anyone? iPod Hi-Fi? Cube?), and even if it were, part of that is because, as Steve used to put it, they're as proud of the products they ended up doing as they are of the ones they decided not to do. They focus. They don't offer a 19-inch MacBook Pro, or a 10-inch MacBook Air, or five different iMac sizes, even though virtually every computer manufacturer does just that, and
as much as Sony has learnt this, they haven't quite internalized it.
They're not gonna do it just because they can sell it to a six-figure amount of people. They're gonna do it if they can sell it to even more than that, all the while explaining, gracefully, why you'd still want to consider an iPhone and a full-sized iPad.