Article: Pono is Officially Dead

[pkane2001]

26 minutes ago, mansr said:

I also think they made a mistake trying to be both a hardware and content vendor.

 

Yeah, Apple made the same mistake with iPod and iTunes

 

 

[pkane2001]

3 minutes ago, mansr said:

Apple is in a different league, if not a different game. Besides, the iTunes store was launched in 2003 while the iPod came out in 2001.

 

I think part of Pono's problem was that Apple and others were already in the same space with not much to distinguish Pono. Audiophile market is tiny, relatively speaking. Obviously, one can succeed selling both, hardware and content (Apple), but it helps to be early to the party to get a large chunk of the market share.