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I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, but ironically Apple mostly did build faster horses (at least in the iStuff generation). They didn't really build a
by quietbritishjim 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, but ironically Apple mostly did build faster horses (at least in the iStuff generation). They didn't really build anything revolutionary, but the things they did build were significanly slicker and more useful than the (similar) products that existed at the time.
- davnicwil 8y agoApple saw that the horse was useful and then built the saddle. Not faster horses. Once people had ridden a horse with a saddle, they didn't want to go back, and were willing to pay a lot more for having that saddle there regardless of if the horse underneath was the same, or even faster.
- Reedx 8y agoBefore the iPhone, if you asked people what they wanted from a phone it was things like "I want more space to store ringtones". Nokia, Blackberry and such seemed to be operating with a focus group approach. People weren't saying "remove the buttons". And I remember a lot of complaining about that when the iPhone first arrived.