Reflections on My Career at Microsoft

Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by solidasparagus on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:08AM (#21361659)

The original iPhone did $745M in revenue before the iPhone 3G was released (not 100% sure if that the one you're talking about since there was never a phone called the iPhone 3). Not exactly 'nobody'...

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Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by throwaway0889 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:06AM (#21363020)

Then why did the price drop 4x and sales grew 3x with the iPhone 3g?

Seriously, if price wasn't a problem and Ballmer was wrong, why did Apple even drop the price?

Truth is this wasn't that long ago, I still remember it, and the price drop was a huge deal to a lot of people.

Articles like these were everywhere.

https://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090622.html

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Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by vezycash on Saturday October 26, 2019 @10:02AM (#21363716)

Thanks for the link. Many people feel that things we take for granted today were obvious successes in the past. Almost none of them ever hit the ground running.

Electricity, the internet, eCommerce, iPhone, even Bitcoin weren't obvious hits in the least. If the success of bitcoin was guaranteed or obvious, In 2009, I'd have bought 111,111 bitcoins for $100 at $0.0009 per bitcoin.

Now, I'd be a billionaire.

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Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by solidasparagus on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:00PM (#21378832)

> "no one would buy such an expensive phone"

Lower prices definitely had benefits, but 3/4 of a billion dollars in revenue clearly shows that many people would buy such an expensive phone.

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Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by deanCommie on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:06AM (#21364090)

Right, so it went from a very popular phone to THE MOST POPULAR PHONE.

It was aleeady a success. Then it became a world beater.

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