[detch]

It appears to me that Joe Wilcox is one big RIMFIRE.

His type predicted Japanese imported cars would never sell, no one would buy Starbucks coffee at that price, Home Depot would be for contractors only and not everyday consumers, musicians and record moguls would never go for iTunes, those white earbuds were lousy making ipods unsellable...

[Spktyr]

You left out that CDs would never take off and that DVD would never replace VHS or laserdiscs.

[AndyJackson]

Job's is an enormous exception in American industry. American products generally suck in terms of quality because they are not designed for the function they are to perform. Apple under Jobs leadership has been the glaring exception to that rule, and if folks would pay attention and try to emulate him rather than denigrate him, America might actually be able to compete again in the world, by building products that folks want to buy. They might even learn how design automobiles once again, though I don't hold out much hope there. Most Americans don't even know what product design is. So they look at Jobs and scoff. And scoff. And scoff. And look at where their taxes go and see GM bailouts and they look at Jobs and scoff.