The great iPhone death watch – Apple 2.0

The great iPhone death watch – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech.

Oh, how wrong they were!  This makes me wonder why anyone in the tech industry, or consumers for that matter, even take all of these people seriously.  Apple, like all other tech companies have had their share of flops.  The Newton, G4 Cube, and the Lisa all come to mind.  Microsoft has a lot of flops as well.  Windows Me, Windows Vista, the Zune, Plays For Sure, are some great examples of some of their many failures.  I won’t go so far as to predict that the new Microsoft retail stores will also fail, but look at this way…  You can buy a Windows PC anywhere.  You can buy a copy of  one of the many versions of Windows 7 anywhere.  What real incentive do consumers have to visit a Microsoft retail store?  Gateway, and Dell tried to launch retail stores.  Do you remember how those ventures went?  In case you didn’t guess, they failed miserably.  Perhaps all of the employees at the Microsoft stores should update their resumes, and have them ready.

With all of Apple’s successes since Steve Jobs came back to Apple, it makes me wonder why the tech pundits continue predicting Apple’s demise.  I think they resent that Apple continues to defy their expectations, even during a bad economy.  Apple stands conventional wisdom on its head, and continues to ‘Think different’.