The entire situation was stupid. It was certainly an interesting product but it was far too expensive for any normal person to actually buy, so there was basically no apps for it, as what’s the point in developing an app for a platform no one owns? No one got one because there was no use for it, because there were no apps. Without a good app ecosystem there was no reason to justify the cost of buying one.
Exactly the same thing happened to Microsoft and the windows phone. You’ve got to make the cost of entry low enough that the developers see the point in developing applications for your platform. Once you’ve established a market then you go Pro, but releasing the pro version first was doomed from the start.
The entire situation was stupid. It was certainly an interesting product but it was far too expensive for any normal person to actually buy, so there was basically no apps for it, as what’s the point in developing an app for a platform no one owns? No one got one because there was no use for it, because there were no apps. Without a good app ecosystem there was no reason to justify the cost of buying one.
Exactly the same thing happened to Microsoft and the windows phone. You’ve got to make the cost of entry low enough that the developers see the point in developing applications for your platform. Once you’ve established a market then you go Pro, but releasing the pro version first was doomed from the start.