I think these days companies are just scared to innovate. It's all about doing small cash grabs that move the needle but don't fundamentally disrupt anything.
my understanding is that whenever new products at big tech are made, they throw a bunch of MBAs at it to try to monetize/extract any value. If that is the case, it makes sense that innovation slows down as the engineers arent steering
I agree with Marks take on the iPhone/android bubble debacle. Apple deserves to be called out the way he describes, they "bullied" non-iphone users under the guise of "security".
Why do people keep saying Steve Jobs invented the iPhone? He at best could have pushed people to do the best but that alone should not let him steal all the credit.
Because the business powers throughout tech companies at the time would not have allowed an iPhone to exist.
I know because I worked directly with all ~33 pocketPC devices that existed at the time for my work.
The iPhone success doesn't happen without the boldness to radically defy industry norms.
And I say this as a Linux maximalist whose daily driver phone has been uninterrupted from G1 to modern day nexus, galaxy, and pixel only. The iPhone changed the meta, when no one else could.
There were buttonless attempts by pocketPC makers, but without the holistic software vision Steve had they didn't work.
Exactly. Nokia had a functional touchscreen phone 7 years before the iPhone in their R&D lab. Nokia and many others had tablets over 10 years beforehand.
It was Steve jobs that pushed it trough into a product.
A bit rich coming from Zuckerberg whose last commercially successful innovation has been to copy wholesale TikTok into Instagram and then lobby US politicians to ban TikTok.
Apple silicon and AirPods are both very succesful.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 33.1 ms ] threadI know because I worked directly with all ~33 pocketPC devices that existed at the time for my work.
The iPhone success doesn't happen without the boldness to radically defy industry norms.
And I say this as a Linux maximalist whose daily driver phone has been uninterrupted from G1 to modern day nexus, galaxy, and pixel only. The iPhone changed the meta, when no one else could.
There were buttonless attempts by pocketPC makers, but without the holistic software vision Steve had they didn't work.
It was Steve jobs that pushed it trough into a product.
Apple silicon and AirPods are both very succesful.