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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, August 19, 2004

My Huge Mistake about the Mini

In a Business Week Online article, after a lot of blah-blah-blah, he finally cuts to the chase: "To be honest, I'm still hesitant to call the mini a mass-market phenomenon, however. Apple won't disclose the number of units shipped. A significant percentage of mini sales are going to Apple's retail and online stores, neither of which provides tracking data to tech analysts. But Hitachi is shipping only 200,000 drives per quarter, putting the upper limit on minis at around that number -- assuming Apple is buying up every disk drive that it can [which it isn't, not even close. --Paul]. So Apple won't even be selling 1 million minis this year. What's more, it will have trouble eclipsing the 1 million-per-year mark until Hitachi or other drive producers can significantly improve yields and up production counts. And until Apple records a boffo holiday season for the mini, it can't officially be called a runaway success."

No, it can't. So why, exactly, were you "wrong" about the Mini?

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