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by throw46365 732 days ago
> Palm CEO on the iPhone

This quote pre-dates the iPhone by a couple of months. So it doesn't remotely qualify as a "failed product" comment. It's just a bad prediction.

(And it's not that bad: the iPhone launched with 2G and without an app market or text-editing beyond delete-and-retype, for example)
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mrguyorama 732 days ago
Also the more blatant fact that OF COURSE the CEO of Palm is going to be bearish on the damn iPhone, otherwise they would have made the damn iPhone at some point!

How often does a direct competitor CEO outright say that they expect a new competitor product to not be underwhelming?

99% of the time a CEO says anything future looking that isn't regulated by the SEC, they are just leaning on suvivors bias to look good retroactively.

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JustExAWS 732 days ago
Bill Gates about the iTunes Music Store

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/09/bill-gates-said-s...

> Steve Jobs['] ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right and market things as revolutionary are amazing things," Gates wrote. "This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music."

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