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How is the apple watch a blue ocean innovation when smart watches existed before that? It might be better but it's not a new product, similar to how the ipod wa

by efraim 6y ago

How is the apple watch a blue ocean innovation when smart watches existed before that? It might be better but it's not a new product, similar to how the ipod wasn't the first mp3 player. Is faceid a usability innovation over previous face recognition systems or is just more secure?

minhazm 6y ago
One can argue that almost nothing is a new product then. Everything is build upon previous work. The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player but it was the best one out there and it changed the entirely industry. The same can be said about the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and pretty much all of Apple's products. They don't always come out with a feature first because they generally don't believe in releasing half baked products (Apple Maps withstanding). For example the Motorola Atrix was the first smart phone with a finger print scanner, but if you actually owned one of these you'll know that it was awful. It wasn't until Apple put Touch ID on the iPhone that people actually were interested in using finger print scanners, and the rest of the industry followed suit and copied Apple, not Motorola even though Motorola was first. Another example is app stores. Apple didn't invent app stores. But after the iPhone added an app store, it changed the entire industry because of how easy Apple made it for anyone to develop for iPhone.
- efraim 6y ago
  Right, very few products are entirely new. That's especially true with apple devices which is why I didn't agree that the apple watch is a blue ocean innovation. They are good at taking ideas and making them better. I would argue that the app store became popular because the iphone was already popular due to being the newest product from apple that had built a following with the ipods and keynotes where the journalists where applauding everything Steve Jobs said. It's easy to forget how bad the iphone was when it was first released.
BuckRogers 6y ago
Apple is like Microsoft, they’re successful not because they were first, but because they were the first to get it right and then commercialize it successfully. That matters as much as the original idea. Not that either haven’t made original contributions, but that’s not why they’re successful.

by efraim 6y ago

minhazm 6y ago

One can argue that almost nothing is a new product then. Everything is build upon previous work. The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player but it was the best one out there and it changed the entirely industry. The same can be said about the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and pretty much all of Apple's products. They don't always come out with a feature first because they generally don't believe in releasing half baked products (Apple Maps withstanding). For example the Motorola Atrix was the first smart phone with a finger print scanner, but if you actually owned one of these you'll know that it was awful. It wasn't until Apple put Touch ID on the iPhone that people actually were interested in using finger print scanners, and the rest of the industry followed suit and copied Apple, not Motorola even though Motorola was first. Another example is app stores. Apple didn't invent app stores. But after the iPhone added an app store, it changed the entire industry because of how easy Apple made it for anyone to develop for iPhone.

efraim 6y ago
Right, very few products are entirely new. That's especially true with apple devices which is why I didn't agree that the apple watch is a blue ocean innovation. They are good at taking ideas and making them better. I would argue that the app store became popular because the iphone was already popular due to being the newest product from apple that had built a following with the ipods and keynotes where the journalists where applauding everything Steve Jobs said. It's easy to forget how bad the iphone was when it was first released.

BuckRogers 6y ago

Apple is like Microsoft, they’re successful not because they were first, but because they were the first to get it right and then commercialize it successfully. That matters as much as the original idea. Not that either haven’t made original contributions, but that’s not why they’re successful.