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cmdrtaco is wrongly mocked for his reaction to the original ipod. The original ipod flopped hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#/media/File:Ipod_sales_pe...

It didn't catch on until several years and hardware iterations later.

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It didn’t flop. It just didn’t sell as much as later versions. Apple made the market for its own product. It’s like saying the Apple II flopped because it sold way less than the current Macintoshes. Of course it did: the market was way smaller.

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