IPhone Killers & Letting Problems Pull Your Strings
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When is this ridiculous idea going to die the death it deserves? Apple is not anything even remotely resembling a small, agile, outgunned company up against other giants. It is a Goliath that frequently crushes other Davids.
People point to the iPhone and say how they took over an industry. Yes, much like Microsoft did with the XBOX, when a tech giant decides to go into a new industry, you generally have to watch out. MS played their hands well and now they're a major player in the games industry, likewise Apple did the same with the iPhone
This taken out of context would be all wrong. I never build anything that's not going to solve some core problem my users have. I think, though, that he means, "Don't start with solving a problem inherent to your, or a competitor's, product."
Unfortunately, you will rot and die a sad and painful death if you don't do precisely that. As a company, you always have to respond to your competitors. Whether you choose to do that by trying to catch up to your competitors or blow the competition away is what matters.
if the answer was: "ok people like small gadgets that are connected (for example iphones and netbooks). Let us see what we can come up with" - then perhaps we would see something better.
I also understand that Hollywood finds it safer to remake (and make sequels to) old successes than to innovate
As an end user I wish it wasn't like that. I can live with Hollywood because it is possible to make low budget movies and people do - there is a thriving independent film industry. Likewise for software its affordable to start up on your own and innovate. Hardware is a whole other kettle of fish though - to afford to work with and on the miniaturisation needed for these kind of devices - its still beyond most small enterprises. Which is where innovation typically resides.
Yes of course its safer for these people to spend their money following the leaders - just that it would be nice if there where a few more leaders (and I speak as someone who has many mac computers)