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I’d say a bunch of companies tried to invent the smartphone...but Apple actually did

maxxxxx 8y ago
That's nonsense. Apple looked at what everybody else was doing and packaged it very well.
ngngngng 8y ago
Apples stock price is over 16x higher today than it was when the iphone was released. By todays metrics, I might call 2007 apple a small company.
Apocryphon 8y ago
Apple was not nearly the giant it is now when it invented the smartphone. What revolutionary ground-breaking products has that company produced now that it has become a giant?
- maxxxxx 8y ago
  Exactly. they are kind of coasting on previous innovations made a long time ago. Same for Google: Since search, Gmail, Android and Maps I don't see much innovation coming from there either.
  - jogjayr 8y ago
    Waymo? Duplex? Photos? Even Chrome is newer than the things you listed.
    - maxxxxx 8y ago
      Waymo got bought, I don't know Duplex, Photos is not exactly innovative, Chrome is just another browser, they existed before
      - davidcbc 8y ago
        Waymo wasn't bought
        nostrademons 8y ago
        It was, actually, from the guy who then tried to sell the tech to Uber and created this massive lawsuit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/the-unknown-startup-that-built-googles-first-selfdriving-car https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/t...
        Apocryphon 8y ago
        Even Android was bought, when you think about it.
      - jogjayr 8y ago
        > Chrome is just another browser, they existed before That's a weak argument. Email existed before Gmail, web search existed before Google Search, maps even online ones, existed before Google Maps, mobile OSes existed before Android. > Photos is not exactly innovative That's what I used to think - another photo sharing/storage thingie. But it has all sorts of crazy machine-learning powered features.[1] 1. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0324/How-Google-Photos-uses-machine-learning-to-create-customized-albums https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0324/How-Google-Ph...
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That's nonsense. Apple looked at what everybody else was doing and packaged it very well.

Apples stock price is over 16x higher today than it was when the iphone was released. By todays metrics, I might call 2007 apple a small company.

Apocryphon 8y ago

Apple was not nearly the giant it is now when it invented the smartphone. What revolutionary ground-breaking products has that company produced now that it has become a giant?

maxxxxx 8y ago
Exactly. they are kind of coasting on previous innovations made a long time ago. Same for Google: Since search, Gmail, Android and Maps I don't see much innovation coming from there either.
- jogjayr 8y ago
  Waymo? Duplex? Photos? Even Chrome is newer than the things you listed.
  - maxxxxx 8y ago
    Waymo got bought, I don't know Duplex, Photos is not exactly innovative, Chrome is just another browser, they existed before
    - davidcbc 8y ago
      Waymo wasn't bought
      - nostrademons 8y ago
        It was, actually, from the guy who then tried to sell the tech to Uber and created this massive lawsuit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/the-unknown-startup-that-built-googles-first-selfdriving-car https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/t...
        Apocryphon 8y ago
        Even Android was bought, when you think about it.
    - jogjayr 8y ago
      > Chrome is just another browser, they existed before That's a weak argument. Email existed before Gmail, web search existed before Google Search, maps even online ones, existed before Google Maps, mobile OSes existed before Android. > Photos is not exactly innovative That's what I used to think - another photo sharing/storage thingie. But it has all sorts of crazy machine-learning powered features.[1] 1. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0324/How-Google-Photos-uses-machine-learning-to-create-customized-albums https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0324/How-Google-Ph...
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