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I never questioned how hard Apple worked, how many iterations, etc. Innovation's success is rarely ruled by those things. They got lucky in the US. They got luc
by withinboredom 3y ago
I never questioned how hard Apple worked, how many iterations, etc. Innovation's success is rarely ruled by those things. They got lucky in the US. They got lucky that AT&T (or anyone) was willing to make those concessions. They got lucky that enough people wanted a phone like that (I didn't). They got lucky that the US turned it into a status symbol. There are probably many other things as well that required luck, that I didn't pay attention to at the time.
- Nevermark 3y agoCertainly agree they had luck. But when there is that level of preparation, it just strikes me wrong just to summarize is at they just got lucky. Also, Steve Jobs got "lucky" many times, with similar preparation. So everything requires some luck, but it seems very dismissive of what they did, that nobody else did as well, several times.
- withinboredom 3y agoLuck is pretty much the defacto model for capitalism. Luck has so much to do with everything and nothing at all. Being prepared? They got lucky in that they were prepared for what actually happened. They had no control over the market, for all they knew the phones would explode after 600 days of use. They weren’t prepared for jail breaking via a TIFF file, they weren’t prepared for that at all. I don’t know or care about Steve Jobs, so I can’t really comment on his luck. But lucky people tend to be lucky. I’m not dismissing what they did, but by putting them on a pedestal, you are dismissing all the other innovations that have come and failed, for nothing more than not being as lucky. I worked on some game-changing real-estate software in 2007-8. They weren’t so lucky. Had the crash happened a year or two later, the entire way you buy/sold houses would be different.