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Old 02-03-2011, 04:18 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post

IBM was huge when they developed a viable personal computer; Nintendo is massive and developed the Wii and its innovative controllers; Microsoft is massive and came up with the Xbox and the Kinect; Google is huge and while they do acquire lots of things, also came up with Android, Chrome / Chrome OS, Google Books and others; Apple was sitting on over $20 billion in cash holdings whilst they developed the iPad (and now has close to $40bn in cash); and of course, Amazon is the 800lb gorilla of the online book biz and not only pushed ebooks into prominence, but also developed Whispernet along the way; large pharmaceuticals develop lots of new drugs, etc etc etc
The problem with this quote, is that with the exception of IBM....nothing was really all that innovative. Being able to do something that's already been created isn't innovative, it's improving on existing technologies.
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