If everyone is reinventing the wheel, then it means the incumbent products are too expensive or lack some necessary features. On the one hand, I agree that the

If everyone is reinventing the wheel, then it means the incumbent products are too expensive or lack some necessary features. On the one hand, I agree that these devices are pretty useful, and there is some measure of thanks for the big companies inventing them. On the other hand, these devices don’t seem to be as well-marketed compared to the things the big companies are known for (probably because the margins are probably not as good at big company scale / the big company is too specialized around its cash cows to really refine these innovations into something that people or other companies would buy). It seems like an innovator’s dilemma to me. I guess I have better idea of what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates meant when they said that they only used some of the ideas they saw at Xerox PARC. Follow-up questions: 1. Have you seen anything at any of the companies that you’ve worked at and isn’t part of the company’s business, but is cool and should/could be used elsewhere? 2. In contrast to 1., have you seen anything that some of the companies that you’ve worked that isn’t part of the business that they repeatedly perform poorly?