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Those are bad examples that miss the point. • Toyota brought hybrids to market. • Apple elevated cellphones to a completely new level, inventing underlying te
by alanh 16y ago
Those are bad examples that miss the point.
• Toyota brought hybrids to market.
• Apple elevated cellphones to a completely new level, inventing underlying technology along the way.
I consider both to be bold, innovative moves. I think you are defining "invention" far too narrowly. Edit: Name a single completely new "invention" from software industries. Nothing? Then stop being so pedantic.
- sen 16y agoI'm talking about his statement that companies that don't "invent", don't last. Toyota didn't "invent" the Hybrid, if anything that's another case that perfectly proves my point.. Toyota took an existing invention, the Hybrid car, and created a brilliant marketable implementation of that pre-existing idea. Apple didn't "invent" the touch screen, multi touch, the cell phone, or any of the other stuff that makes the iPhone such a good phone. It just once again took pre-existing ideas and created a brilliant marketable implementation of the combined ideas into a product that has netted them billions of dollars.