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> Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true. This is categorically false. Apple has always taken ideas poorly executed by o
by ggg9990 9y ago
> Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true.
This is categorically false. Apple has always taken ideas poorly executed by other companies, learned from their mistakes, and shipped a vastly improved product built on technologies that others failed with. Their new building is practically the only exception. Even things like depth sensors on phones have been attempted by Google (project Tango) with little commercial success.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThose are “tried” but they don’t qualify as “tried and true.” Something remains cutting edge until it ultimately fails and disappears or is a success and becomes mainstream.
- whyenot 9y ago> This is categorically false. some counterexamples: iMacs without floppy disks and with USB, MacBooks with only USB3 ports, the original iPhone, the touch bar (like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge), ...
- dingaling 9y ago> like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge As with your other examples it has antecedents, just poorly executed. Acer, Microsoft ( Windows Sideshow, 2008) and Razer had all experimented with an adaptive secondary LCD.
- anon1253 9y agoNot to mention Lenovo carbon X that replaced the function keys with an OLED display
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- abalone 9y agoYour statement is trivially false. “Ideas poorly executed by other companies” are not “tried and true” ideas, by definition.