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I disagree with all the examples that aren't disruptive, google, online dating, and Uber. People forget how crude and limited they were to begin with.
by andrewtbham 13y ago
I disagree with all the examples that aren't disruptive, google, online dating, and Uber. People forget how crude and limited they were to begin with.
- andrewtbham 13y agoI would really like to know why this was downvoted.
- bjterry 13y agoProbably because your statement didn't include any rationale for your disagreement, and specifically didn't address his direct claim, which is that each of these was better than the alternative at their genesis. In disruption as described by Christensen, a market is being overserved by an incumbent relative to the needs of buyers, and the disruptor offers a somewhat worse product at a dramatically lower price, not a BETTER product. Google was superior to Yahoo along every dimension. Uber was a dramatically better experience than a taxi, and was also MORE EXPENSIVE.
- andrewtbham 13y agogood point. uber and online dating both lacked the network to be superior initially. it's hard to say what industry search engines disrupted... (libraries, yellow pages, encyclopedias, travel agents?) but in 1998 when google was founded, they indexed 26 million pages. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.h... Here is the original google: http://www.topdesignmag.com/how-did-the-original-google-server-looked-like/ http://www.topdesignmag.com/how-did-the-original-google-serv... Regarding the statement Google was always superior to yahoo... it would be nice to have a timeframe, because Google provided Yahoo's results as late as 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search My point is that the author is a mainstream adopter and is comparing the mainstream products to their counterparts that they disrupted.