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176 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 20:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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WorldPeas[dead post] ◴[30 Oct 25 20:55 UTC] No.45765233[source]▶
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alsetmusic ◴[30 Oct 25 21:15 UTC] No.45765459[source]▶
> Make products people want and they buy, ignore them, and they don't.

What does this even mean? When I went to my local Apple Store to see the iPhone air in person (to decide if it was right for me, which it was), they had a line out the door for people who wanted to buy new phones. Their Mac business is very healthy since introducing their own silicon. Everyone in the Bay Area (skewed, I know) has AirPods on the train or at the grocery store.

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smt88 ◴[30 Oct 25 21:51 UTC] No.45765803[source]▶
AirPods are certainly super popular, but I can't think of many places that are extreme outliers in almost every category like the Bay Area. A lot of startups have failed assuming their business that worked for Bay Area customers would work elsewhere.
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1. maximus_01 ◴[30 Oct 25 22:02 UTC] No.45765918[source]▶
This is true but airpods is a bad example. They are a runaway success. Estimates are they did around $25bn of revenue in the last year. For context the highest annual revenue Bose ever did was $4bn (since declined). Sonos does something like $1.5bn. If Airpods was a standalone company it would be one of the biggest consumer hardware companies in the world.