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Google Glass for starters. Self Driving Cars as a good second. Then we also have the ChromeCast and ChromeOS. And Apple didn't use to iterate over existing con

Google Glass for starters. Self Driving Cars as a good second. Then we also have the ChromeCast and ChromeOS. And Apple didn't use to iterate over existing concepts. They were actually innovative. The iPhone for one. It created a pocket sized computer that can also make calls. Some people might think that There were others doing that before, but they weren't. Every other "Smartphone" before the iPhone was a Super Phone. But I do acknowledge that there is no real innovation out of thin air. All innovations stand on the shoulders of others. This is all a matter of distance. How much distance is there between a Palm Treo and the iPhone? That is where innovations hits. The new iPhone 5S has a very small distance compared to the Galaxy 4 for example. Apple is a company that has been really good at releasing innovations that are far from current technologies. Lately that gap is very very small.

nicholassmith 13y ago
Google Glass is a follow on from previous work, and self driving cars have been a DARPA challenge for at least 8 years. They're not massively innovative except in the context of being refined to a honed product. The iPhone was innovative because it packaged existing concepts in a way that was inntuitive to use, previous smartphones (and I had many) were often the opposite of that. Apple still doesn't radically enter a product category on that regular a basis, I imagine next year or after we may see them do it again.
anko 13y ago
google glass and self driving cars are really them just monetising r&d. They aren't suitable for real world use. Apple doesn't talk about their r&d until it's a real project. It's really hard to compare the two.
chris_wot 13y ago
The thing is, Jobs didn't settle for just one product. He wanted to do something Apple hadn't done before. He did a phone. Then he did a tablet. What else needs to be redesigned to make it better? What other markets need disrupting? That's what Appe should be asking.
- aespinoza 13y ago
  That is right. That is why Google and Tesla are so inspiring for me. Even thought the idea for Glass is not new, they way Google solved it is. I know it is not ready, but it is still an amazing idea.

nicholassmith 13y ago

Google Glass is a follow on from previous work, and self driving cars have been a DARPA challenge for at least 8 years. They're not massively innovative except in the context of being refined to a honed product. The iPhone was innovative because it packaged existing concepts in a way that was inntuitive to use, previous smartphones (and I had many) were often the opposite of that. Apple still doesn't radically enter a product category on that regular a basis, I imagine next year or after we may see them do it again.

anko 13y ago

google glass and self driving cars are really them just monetising r&d. They aren't suitable for real world use. Apple doesn't talk about their r&d until it's a real project. It's really hard to compare the two.

chris_wot 13y ago

The thing is, Jobs didn't settle for just one product. He wanted to do something Apple hadn't done before. He did a phone. Then he did a tablet. What else needs to be redesigned to make it better? What other markets need disrupting? That's what Appe should be asking.

aespinoza 13y ago
That is right. That is why Google and Tesla are so inspiring for me. Even thought the idea for Glass is not new, they way Google solved it is. I know it is not ready, but it is still an amazing idea.