The Mac. Nobody is disputing that every product relies on previous products. But the Mac is a good example of a technological break thru that had imperfect pa

The Mac. Nobody is disputing that every product relies on previous products. But the Mac is a good example of a technological break thru that had imperfect packaging, pricing AND timing. The packaging was too restrictive for the time. Jobs' vision was right, but the industry hadn't developed far enough that you could ship a machine without internal slots and be successful. The pricing was out of line with the rest of the market, and the rest of the market didn't recognize sufficient increase in value due to the GUI to make the pricing make sense. And of course, both of those issues were issues of timing. The Mac took several years to be successful, and depending on how you measure things, some would say it has never become successful (still only being %23 of the market or something like that.) But the Mac was a technology break thru. In fact, it contained many such breakthrus, both in hardware and software.