Bear in mind that the original iPod was expensive and only worked on a Mac (and they were only just recovering from near extinction then). The arrival of PC support and, especially, the iTunes store really shook things up.Lol OMG what a classic. Another great lesson that came out of this is that tech geeks have no clue what people want or want to buy.
That PowerBook video pretty much sums up Apple without Steve Jobs. I am sure that he was laughing his butt off from his office at NeXT or Pixar lol
The first 2 mins of the video are not the PowerBook, they are the earlier Mac Portable - which was always a bit of a joke considering that it was not much more portable than a Classic Mac (although ISTR it had pretty good life thanks to it's lead-acid battery and was the first computer with a TFT LCD display - which was night & day better than the dim, murky, passive LCDs on everything else around at the time). Even so, it didn't look quite so silly alongside contemporary portables - which were smaller, but of a similar design and probably didn't have the oomph to run a GUI like MacOS.
The PowerBook itself was a hugely innovative and original product - it wasn't the first laptop, but it effectively defined the modern laptop form-factor, with a clamshell design, set-back keyboard and pointing device front & centre. Pretty much all modern laptops are a descendent of that design.
Apple made the best laptops throughout the early/mid 90s - made everything else look like a bucket of spare parts. It was the Mac workstations that were in trouble because much cheaper PC hardware was starting to become usable for DTP, graphics and video. Without the Powerbook, there probably wouldn't have been an Apple for Jobs to come back to.