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When you do something in a mature industry, you skip quite a lot of losing bets that those involved in maturing it couldn't. That's why Google, Samsung and oth
by mrtksn 1y ago
When you do something in a mature industry, you skip quite a lot of losing bets that those involved in maturing it couldn't.
That's why Google, Samsung and others were able to create smartphones comparable to iPhone without having a Steve Jobs and a Johny Ive right after Apple made one.
Once you know the way forward, the rest is an engineering task and it's matter of working towards it. Very low risk compared to the initial work done by the pioneers.
- IndySun 1y agoApple did exactly what you're accusing others of, re 'smart phones', skipping lost bets and combining existing technologies, that did exist in smartphone form pre iphone. Lots of real time material evidence exists. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z62gjfr https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z62gjfr
- mrtksn 1y agoSure, that's called progress. Apple skipped Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung Skipped Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and Apple. The next entrants skip Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson, Apple, Samsung. You get the point. When you are getting into an established industry see what works, skip investing billions in directions that go nowhere.
- defrost 1y agoThis sounds like good advice for EU tech companies stepping up to deliver to customers that want to avoid dependance upon existing US companies (and their associated demonstrably capricious government).
- thefz 1y agoThe first iPhone is very well known to be a rip-off of Palm's Pre. And Jobs did not invent anything himself, he was limited to saying yes/no to the engineers who did.