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Originally Posted by ApK
C'mon! I've been half-jokingly accusing people of not knowing the definitions of common words in this thread, but surely since you posted the definition yourself, you can see that 'innovative' in NO way implies it's better or ahead of the competition. Just new. You can have a clever, innovative product that sucks and fails miserably.
IOW, innovative doesn't have to be ahead of the competition, it can be off to the side of them. It can sometimes be so far off to the side that it runs off the road and crashes in a ditch. That's part of the risk of innovating.
ApK
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Are you not being overly strict in your usage here? Surely, in the context of technology, it is pretty universally inferred that "innovation" means both better and "ahead of the competition." When you additionally include the context of this specific discussion and its related issues, then I think that association between innovation and "better" can be made even stronger. After all, if the "innovation" didn't clearly make a product better, then there would be little reason to charge more for it.
--Pat