At the time they may have been right, but the truth involves a time element. At closer look, it shows how immensely popular and desired what Apple was bringing to market was to overcome opinions like that. Back then that was the reality.
I think when you go back and look at changes, many time it focuses on mainstream people who were wrong. But it was really everyone in the industry was wrong at that time, and shows how amazingly time and innovation through research and development can unseat the current reality.
I know I realized how big it was the moment I read OpenGL ES and the announcement of the SDK at the Keynote in that it was a new handheld gaming market. However I thought it would be a smaller market like the current social/casual game market at the time. It turned into engulf and change the entire thing and has the biggest player population of all now while putting the other companies in defensive positions (Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft).
I think when you go back and look at changes, many time it focuses on mainstream people who were wrong. But it was really everyone in the industry was wrong at that time, and shows how amazingly time and innovation through research and development can unseat the current reality.
I know I realized how big it was the moment I read OpenGL ES and the announcement of the SDK at the Keynote in that it was a new handheld gaming market. However I thought it would be a smaller market like the current social/casual game market at the time. It turned into engulf and change the entire thing and has the biggest player population of all now while putting the other companies in defensive positions (Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft).