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modulusshift t1_ixsjetw wrote

Reply to comment by JamesRustleford in An iPhone Apple Pencil was scrapped at the last minute, leaker claims by CatDaddyJudeClaw

Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point. Steve Jobs was a salesman first and foremost, he’d always tell you that anything he doesn’t have couldn’t possibly compare to what he did have, right up until he had the other thing too.

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Captain_Alaska t1_ixt3jzi wrote

>Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point.

I mean, you're leaving out that they bumped the screen size between the 4th and 5th gen iPods.

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