I’ll give Richard Sprague from Microsoft credit for guts on this one. He predicted in this post and a later one that Apple wouldn’t come close to making their iPhone goal when Apple launched the device. He invited users to come back later and check in. Evidently he has a few followers since a lot of his readers returned to point out, with his encouragement, what he got wrong and why Apple hit its marks!
He pretty much got it all wrong. However, the biggest thing he missed was the iPhone’s appeal beyond the Mac faithful. I know lots of Windows users that are sold on their iPhones and they still use Windows. Perhaps there will be a “halo effect” here but even if there isn’t I think Apple did a damn good job in their opening year+ becoming the number 3 phone maker.
Perhaps people will stop settling for “good enough” and start demanding better technology products including operating systems and computers.
