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Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Why are they still able to continuously pushed out great products and keep innovating? What’s your hypothesis?

capableweb 5y ago
> Why are they still able to continuously pushed out great products and keep innovating? What’s your hypothesis? Big assumption that Apple is indeed innovating right now. Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Everything between has just been iterations basically, so I disagree with your assumption that Apple is in-fact highly innovative.
- poisonborz 5y ago
  Any tech company would toss a limb for those "iterations". Aluminium unibody, stacked battery tech, MagSafe, ECG for watch, and much more.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    Not sure I'd call taking existing technologies and putting them in laptops/watches innovation rather than iteration on existing stuff, but we're all different so it's all good.
    - laserlight 5y ago
      Can you please list some technologies or products that you think were innovations in the last 15 years?
      - deleted 5y ago
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      - jleyank 5y ago
        My recollection of the time window is wrong, but I’d say microprocessors, then smartphones were fundamental. Chips ate both minicomputers and mainframes, and the smartphone totally altered how people interact with computers. Tablets are just big phones and watches are just smaller subsets. Software wise, the web. The net is old but it took the web to make it explode. What am I missing?
    - saagarjha 5y ago
      Innovation is literally taking technology and making it practical.
    - Sebb767 5y ago
      By that logic, the M1 was just packaging an ARM CPU in a laptop and the iPhone was just stuffing a SIM card in a PDA.
    - simonh 5y ago
      If that's all it is, why isn't everyone doing it? And to the extent that they are doing the same sort of things, why are Apple taking on the order of 90% of the profits in multiple market segments? Clearly they are doing something different.
- TheRealNGenius 5y ago
  Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is objectively true.
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    What is the objective definition of highly innovative?
    - TheRealNGenius 5y ago
      I dunno...
- tpush 5y ago
  > Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.
dilyevsky 5y ago
Google has no problems innovating on their ad backend and infrastructure you just don’t get to see it bc you’re not a customer - you’re just part of their product

capableweb 5y ago

> Why are they still able to continuously pushed out great products and keep innovating? What’s your hypothesis? Big assumption that Apple is indeed innovating right now. Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Everything between has just been iterations basically, so I disagree with your assumption that Apple is in-fact highly innovative.

poisonborz 5y ago
Any tech company would toss a limb for those "iterations". Aluminium unibody, stacked battery tech, MagSafe, ECG for watch, and much more.
- capableweb 5y ago
  Not sure I'd call taking existing technologies and putting them in laptops/watches innovation rather than iteration on existing stuff, but we're all different so it's all good.
  - laserlight 5y ago
    Can you please list some technologies or products that you think were innovations in the last 15 years?
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
    - jleyank 5y ago
      My recollection of the time window is wrong, but I’d say microprocessors, then smartphones were fundamental. Chips ate both minicomputers and mainframes, and the smartphone totally altered how people interact with computers. Tablets are just big phones and watches are just smaller subsets. Software wise, the web. The net is old but it took the web to make it explode. What am I missing?
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    Innovation is literally taking technology and making it practical.
  - Sebb767 5y ago
    By that logic, the M1 was just packaging an ARM CPU in a laptop and the iPhone was just stuffing a SIM card in a PDA.
  - simonh 5y ago
    If that's all it is, why isn't everyone doing it? And to the extent that they are doing the same sort of things, why are Apple taking on the order of 90% of the profits in multiple market segments? Clearly they are doing something different.
TheRealNGenius 5y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is objectively true.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  What is the objective definition of highly innovative?
  - TheRealNGenius 5y ago
    I dunno...
tpush 5y ago
> Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.

dilyevsky 5y ago

Google has no problems innovating on their ad backend and infrastructure you just don’t get to see it bc you’re not a customer - you’re just part of their product