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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” –Some Microsoft guy


"640k of memory ought to be enough for anybody" -Fake Bill Gates quote


How is that remotely like this at all?


Apparently because the iPhone sold well despite an impossible challenge from Steve Ballmer, any unrelated thing is possible.


I guess we’ll see.


Whether I’m right or wrong about how it does doesn’t indicate whether this can be compared to an iPhone. That’s a bizarre comparison. The steam machine, even if it’s very successful, will sell at most a few million units. And that is truly a big “if.” The iPhone sold almost 40mill units in its first 3 years and its value was reality apparent to basically anyone. These aren’t remotely comparable products.




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