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It's actually very unusual for a big company to do anything technically innovative. Most innovation happens in startups; if we are successful big companies may
by ra 17y ago
It's actually very unusual for a big company to do anything technically innovative. Most innovation happens in startups; if we are successful big companies may offer to buy us.
Apple and Google are the elephant-sized exceptions here (but still they make a lot of acquisitions).
PS: Steve Wozniak was one of my favourite chapters in Founders at Work.
- rbanffy 17y agoThe late Apple is more about masterful execution than innovation proper. OSX is Unix (and a rehash of NeXT's OS), the Macs are x86 PCs (and even run Windows), neither iPods nor iPhones were the first in their categories. They merely were the first to be done right. IIRC, the last time I saw Apple really breaking new ground was with the Newton. Before that, with the Lisa. The Mac was merely a cheaper, less functional, Lisa. It was a Lisa, masterfully executed though...