When Bill Gates predicted decline of iPod: ‘As good as Apple may be…’

Apple’s iPod has been used by music lovers ever since it was launched over two decades ago. But Microsoft founder Bill Gates had predicted the decline of the iPod not very long after it was launched. In an interview with a German newspaper in 2005, Bill Gates reflected on the success of Apple’s iPod which was launched in 2001. He then said, “As good as Apple may be, I don’t believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run. You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphic user interface – like the iPod today – and then lost its position.”