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Assertion Partly supported
Wozniak: The iPhone was conceptually designed as an iPod with phone features
“And then the iPhone was even better. And it was based on the iPod, not the reverse, not a phone. And we'll include an iPod more like it's an iPod, but you get a phone with it.”
Steve Wozniak Dec 27, 2022 ▶ 28:14 a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Apple iPod lifetime sales nearly doubled the Sony Walkman
“Apparently the unit life, someone said to me, lifetime sales of the Sony Walkman were about two hundred and fifty million units. So they sell, you know, almost double, you know, the Sony Walkman.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:24 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Assertion Supported
Evans: Apple generated $65 billion in lifetime revenue from 400 million iPods
“They sold, what was it, four hundred million of them, and they did something like sixty-five billion dollars of revenue.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:10 a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
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