https://www.opte.ch/tags/innovation/Recent content in Innovation on OpTe.chHugoen&copy; Mike OertliFri, 25 Apr 2014 07:25:46 -0700https://www.opte.ch/news/how-successful-will-a-new-apple-product-need-to-be-to-considered-successful/Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:56:28 -0700https://www.opte.ch/news/how-successful-will-a-new-apple-product-need-to-be-to-considered-successful/<p>The iPod, iPhone, and iPad are unequivocally considered to be profound and world-changing technological breakthroughs that forever changed the world we live in. They sell by the millions and account for staggering quarterly revenues.</p> <p>The funny thing is, none of them really sold well on the first generation. The first iPod is barely a blip on the sales radar coming in well under a quarter million units.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg" class="sqs-block-image-link" data-sqsp-image-classic-block-image-link=""><img src="800px-Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg-1-.png" alt="Image credit: Wikipedia" /></a></p>