Posted on Tuesday 15 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Paul Griffin, CEO/founder of Griffin Technology, the company known for their iPod peripherals (iTrip, iTalk, iFM, SmartDeck …), was interviewed by Engadget at the Portable Media Expo. An excerpt:
About half your products revolve around the iPod universe now.
Yeah, we’re spending about 40 percent of our R&D on iPod products. I think that’s a short-term situation because the iPod’s very popular, and there’s a big rush to get new products out. In the long run I’m sure we’ll spend less on that.
So you said in today’s session that in the short term, no one is going to knock off the iPod, even if they do knockoffs.
I think Apple has done too many things too well. I see products coming out with the same features as the iPod, with maybe not as good software. That’s not good enough, they have to do something groundbreaking and earth-shattering, and I don’t see that coming from anyone else right now. It’s just not enough to knock them off.
