Especially in light of Sunday night’s sprawling profile on 60 Minutes, this old New York Times article is fun read in hindsight. From the article titled, “Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player”:
It’s Been 10 Years Since The Whole Country Was Confused By iPods
↵↵Apple Computer introduced a portable music player today and declared that the new gadget, called the iPod, was so much easier to use that it would broaden a nascent market in the way the Macintosh once helped make the personal computer accessible to a more general audience.
↵But while industry analysts said the device appeared to be as consumer friendly as the company said it was, they also pointed to its relatively limited potential audience...
↵“It’s a nice feature for Macintosh users,” said P. J. McNealy, a senior analyst for Gartner G2, an e-commerce research group. “But to the rest of the Windows world, it doesn’t make any difference.”
↵↵Umm... Yeah. P.J. McNealy would like a mulligan.
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