Originally Posted by CPRich

Iirc, that was the point of my response. Stating that a platform saw no boost in sales, and referring to sales data from the last quarter (post 186), less than 20 days after the product is released, is a failure. I would suspect that iPhone share dropped before the iPhone4 was released, it dropped before the iPhone3 was released, etc. - that doesn't demonstrate that the iPhone3 and iPhone4 were failure.

I simply suggested waiting to look at the quarterly data in the quarter after the product is released to see what impact it had. That doesn't seen too unreasonable to me. It may or may not spike, but looking at data before release and calling is a failure doesn't make sense.