Pete Nicholson1d ago
@gruber If, in 2011, you'd asked Steve Jobs to predict the future success of iPad and iPhone, would he have assumed iPad was #1 most wildly popular, and iPhone was #2?
Show threadJohn Gruber

@animatorpete How do you mean? That iPad is the most popular tablet by market share, and iPhone is second to Android?

I don't think that's a good way of looking at things. iPhone unit sales far exceed iPad sales, so I'd argue that iPhone is way more popular than iPad. The difference is that everyone has a cell phone. Not everyone has a tablet. But amongst people who *care* about their phone, iPhone is far and away #1 in the world.

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Show threadPete Nicholson1d ago
@gruber I didnt explain myself well, apologies. I meant: do you think Steve pictured a future where iPad sold way more than iphone, people bought one yearly, people loved them in the way that, in reality, people love their iphones?
Show threadPete Nicholson1d ago
@gruber a kind of reverse of the reality we find ourselves in, where everyone’s primary computer is their iphone, and iPad is a distant secondary device, which some people dont own?
Show threadJohn Gruber9h ago
@animatorpete That’s a more interesting question, but no, I don’t think he envisioned that. It makes more intuitive sense that the pocket computer is the hero device.
Show threadPaul McGrane7h ago
@gruber @animatorpete although so proud of the iPad and iPhone, remember when Steve pulled the iPod nano out of the smaller pocket of his Levis? He loved that! 👖