Originally posted by rawr What innovation?
Mobile phones?
Yes. They frankly remade the device. All other 'smart phone' makers have been trying to catch up, trying to
copy, sometimes to the point of patent infringement, desperately trying to put a device in peoples hands that is both as powerful (very possible) and as seamless, easy to use, and beautifully designed (not easy) as the iphone. Google might come close - but that's saying something, that a company as large, powerful and fresh as Google is challenged in matching Apple.
Quote: PC's? GUI? Mouse?
Xerox PARC basically invented the modern mouse-driven GUI we use today. When I discovered this fact decades ago, I was very anti-Apple about the whole thing, felt that Steve Jobs 'stole' the idea from Xerox.
Since then I've spent some time in the business world on the technology side of things. I realized that if someone on that Xerox team had even half of Job's ability to truly see what's going to hit, to realize what people will go crazy for before they themselves even know - then Xerox PARC would have made the Mac, would have brought the GUI to mainstream.
And really, Microsoft took the ball from Apple on that one. If you want to talk about a true lack of innovation, talk about Windows circa late 80's.
Since the early 2000's we've had OS X - basically Unix-based OS, stable, slick, beautiful GUI, less susceptible to malware, wed to the hardware. I'm a Unix guy, I just really like that OS on the surface and under the covers.... especially when I compare it to Windows.
Quote: Tablets?
Tablets before ipad sucked. Oddly, most tablets after ipad still suck - have you tried these Android tablets?
Quote: Walkmans?
Sony did well with the Walkman back in the early 80's. Good on them. Why has no mp3 player matched the ipod in sales or design? Why did itunes become what it did, and not something else in its place?
Do you see a pattern here? What do you attribute it to, blind luck, again and again?
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