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But disruptive inventions are not necessarily brilliant. Modesty should have nothing to do with it. Certainly the iPhone can be brilliant without being disrupti
by jeremyjh 14y ago
But disruptive inventions are not necessarily brilliant. Modesty should have nothing to do with it. Certainly the iPhone can be brilliant without being disruptive.
- msandford 14y agoWhen dealing with software it's rarely the case that worse-is-better, more often it's better-is-better. Worse-is-better only comes up when the stuff already out there is very well done, polished, and too expensive for most people to afford.
- _delirium 14y agoSoftware is the original worse-is-better domain: Richard P. Gabriel coined the term to describe competition between software packages.
- msandford 14y agoYou're right of course, when dealing with desktop software packages. I was only thinking of the online web-startup stuff which is generally just plain better.
- lost_name 14y agoYou are technically correct and I probably used too strong of a term to describe what I meant there. I only mean to say that labeling something as disruptive doesn't mean it is and vice versa.
- twoodfin 14y agoAt least as I've heard John Gruber tell it, Christensen at first thought the iPhone wouldn't be disruptive because he saw it (as did most) as high-end phone, targeted at high-end users. What it really was, he later realized, was a small, cheap computer. Now iPhone-style smartphones outsell PCs.