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Google's first product was a version of a search engine, something that many people had developed multiple versions of years before it existed. Google's second
by statictype 16y ago
Google's first product was a version of a search engine, something that many people had developed multiple versions of years before it existed.
Google's second most successful product was a web-based mail service, something that existed about 10 years before their version.
Apple's most successful product existed a few decades before they entered the market.
- rbanffy 16y agoGoogle can have credit for building the first search engine and the first webmail that were done right. Their real innovation is not in the end-user side, but under the hood. Just making it work required a couple leaps in understanding how thousands of servers have to be managed. And Apple pretty much invented the personal computer as we know it. Unless Woz is wrong, the Apple I had a very innovative feature: a keyboard.
- ugh 16y agoThe innovation game is a very boring game. People always redefine what exactly they mean by “innovate” just so they can blame some company for not innovating. It always works.
- rbanffy 16y agoIndeed. But I maintain my statement, which has nothing to do with Apple and Google (something I made clear on my first message in this thread). Microsoft has very rarely, if ever, launched a product that created or redefined a category. They are always late movers, but, frequently, end up with the first successful product.
- statictype 16y agoWith Apple, I was actually referring to mobile phones.
- rbanffy 16y agoI am not speaking of Apple or Google. My point is about Microsoft. Have they ever made something really innovative?