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The iPhone is an incremental update. The marketing surrounding the iPhone is the actual "innovation". Not all major innovations need to be completely revoluti
by moosey 8y ago
The iPhone is an incremental update. The marketing surrounding the iPhone is the actual "innovation".
Not all major innovations need to be completely revolutionary, but there are far better evolutionary actions that we have taken that might be considered truly innovative and revolutionary. A good example would be the creation _and widespread adoption_ of the MMR vaccine.
- malvosenior 8y agoThere was plenty of actual innovation with the iPhone. It was the first consumer capacitive touch device, it invented a whole host of new UI concepts and inter-app integration that wasn't available on other devices at the time. I agree that there are plenty of good examples of incremental innovation (which the iPhone may debatably be). It's a very well known and obvious example of meaningful innovation (society is different post-iPhone) that demonstrates the point I was trying to make which is: not all innovation can happen at a grass roots level.