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There's a book which explains this phenomena : "Everything is Obvious ... Once you know the answer" http://everythingisobvious.com/the-book/ http://everythingi
by denzil_correa 8y ago
There's a book which explains this phenomena : "Everything is Obvious ... Once you know the answer"
http://everythingisobvious.com/the-book/ http://everythingisobvious.com/the-book/
- GeekyBear 8y agoOne of the Android engineers (back when Android was going to be a Blackberry knockoff) made a similar comment about his reaction to the iPhone unveiling. >“As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’” What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
- fjsolwmv 8y agoThat's because Apple had a touchscreen, and Google had a keyboard at the time.
- xeromal 8y agoala a blackberry knockoff
- Crontab 8y agoWell, no one is accusing Google of originality.
- simonh 8y agoLots of phones had touchscreens before. It was a combination of the physical design, engineering, UI and feature set that was so ground breaking. The thing is each of these things is intimately connected and depend on each other. You can’t just do one without the other three and have anything worthwhile. That’s why this was so hard. It’s why analysts that just focuses on one obvious feature - a touch screen - misses the point so badly. If a touch screen was all that mattered, why didn’t the Android team copy one of the previous touch screen phones instead?
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- legulere 8y agoAlso known as the egg of Columbus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus