[iosguyryan]

Apple rescued itself from bankruptcy with the iPod. When mobile phones began to gain storage for MP3s and internet access, Apple saw the writing on the wall for their cash cow. They pushed a multitouch acquisition from room-scale projection to another level for handheld devices, and then married that with its supply chain breakthroughs at the time. Now it sees the writing on the wall for iPhone and the relevancy of all the halo products and services once more ambient on-person computing becomes common.

[hollandheese]

I'm sorry, but no. Apple was a quite stable company in 2001 before the iPod. It was saved from bankruptcy with the iMac and the early Jobs era of Macs. The iPod helped rocket Apple to the stratosphere, but the company would have been fine without it.

[dyauspitr]

Writing is on the wall for the iPhone? That couldn’t be further from the truth.