MacDailyNews has a tendency to remember what analysts, prognosticators, and competitors say about Apple’s chances in any given venture. For example:
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in” – Ed Colligan, Palm CEO, November 16, 2006
“The iPhone’s willful disregard of the global handset market will come back to haunt Apple” – Tero Kuittinen, RealMoney.com, January 18, 2007
“Consumers are not used to paying another couple hundred bucks more just because Apple makes a cool product. Some fans will buy [iPhone], but for the rest of us it’s a hard pill to swallow just to have the coolest thing” – Neil Strother, NPD Group analyst, January 22, 2007
There are many more, most from 2007, before the iPhone launched. Fun reading but not so much noise since then.
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