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Counting Google's unreleased moonshot products as innovation seems like counting one's chickens before they hatch. It is easy to innovate in the abstract, much
by a_c_s 12y ago
Counting Google's unreleased moonshot products as innovation seems like counting one's chickens before they hatch. It is easy to innovate in the abstract, much harder to fully realize a vision in the form of a product.
- zak_mc_kracken 12y agoInnovation is innovation. Just because an innovation isn't a success in the market place doesn't mean it was not innovative.
- nardi 12y agoCorrection: > Just because an innovation is only a research project* To which I will have to vehemently disagree with you. Otherwise we'll have to start celebrating science fiction authors for their "innovation."
- enneff 12y agoScience fiction authors don't build things. The driverless cars are real, and they work. The Loon balloons are delivering Internet access to remote regions right now.
- nardi 12y agoFor some definition of "work." They are mostly fiction. Unless a "driverless car" is supposed to only really be driverless on the freeway. The point is that actually shipping a successful product to consumers is the true mark of innovation. Anything else is research.
- a_c_s 12y ago"unreleased products" are definitionally neither successes nor failures in the marketplace.