Thursday, March 16, 2006
The iPod is dying and will die in 2006
Half a year ago I posted a very controversial blog entitled “2006 the Year the iPod died”. We had a lot of comments, trackbacks and found the topic generated a lot of discussion at other blogsites as well. I promised to return to that forecast.
First - let me re-iterate. We, Alan Moore and I, are both big fans of Apple, and we loved the iPod and i-Tunes concepts so much that we made it one of the case studies in our book. A positive case study in every way. We do love this innovation. But unfortunately for the many Apple and iPod fans who shared thoughts with us, this Apple innovation is totally bound to become a niche proposition, exactly like other fantastic Apple innovations like Macintosh computers.