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>>Apple has indeed accomplished many things since Jobs handed over the reins, but delivering a new, innovative compelling product line is not one of them. What
by enraged_camel 8y ago
>>Apple has indeed accomplished many things since Jobs handed over the reins, but delivering a new, innovative compelling product line is not one of them.
What company has, though?
My observation is that, while technology evolves very quickly, revolutionary product lines appear about once per generation. iPhones came out in 2007, so we have at least another decade to go.
- ketzo 8y agoI mean, I think that's false even among Apple! The iPod came out in, what, 2001? I think a lot of people then (and me, now) would have said that that was a genuinely revolutionary product.
- enraged_camel 8y agoI don’t see why the iPod was revolutionary. While it was a very popular product, and set a high bar for MP3 players, at the end of the day it was still just another MP3 player. It didn’t create entirely new ecosystems and allow people to do things they previously couldn’t, the way the iPhone did.
- fsloth 8y agoI think far more revolutionary in the long term with the iPod were the digital licensing deals they managed to forge with the record labels. However, for a device of it's time it did hold novel technical features.