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When you combine old inventions in new novel ways, that create a better product, your are inventing something new. And this results in not necessarily a small o
by csmeder 16y ago
When you combine old inventions in new novel ways, that create a better product, your are inventing something new. And this results in not necessarily a small or insignificant inovation. In my opinion Apple innovates in a big way.
Apple's ideas may look obvious and their decisions my look easy to decide after the fact, however, the same can be said for a winning chess move after its made. This is an easy fallacy to make.
"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton
- http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/268025.html http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/268025.html
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI've read that when he used that phrase it was intended as a pointed insult to the recipient of the letter, Robert Hooke, who had claimed priority on some of Newton's ideas and was famously short. While many believe that was the sentiment being expressed by Newton in his letter to Hooke, some researchers have suggested that he was actually using the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" as a veiled insult of Robert Hooke, who was a rather short man. Newton had a reputation as somewhat of a petty and vindictive man whose ego clashed with those of his rivals in the scientific and mathematical communities. One of these rivals was Robert Hooke, who had been involved in a long-running fued with Newton over which one had discovered the inverse square law. Although Newton's letter to Hooke appeared courteous on the surface, some historians have concluded that he cleverly employed the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" to ridicule Hooke's lack of physical stature and imply that he lacked intellectual stature as well. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162b.shtml http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162b.shtml