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Originally Posted by wizwor
Apple is like an ice breaker launching new products in the icy oceans of unknown markets. Google is a tug boat drafting behind the SS iPhone. This article is like the SS Google declaring that they got there too. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others have made very nice smart phones, but let's not pretend copying a smart phone is the same as inventing one.
I wonder what Derek Brown thought the Battlefield of Tomorrow would be in 2006...
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Apart from the Apple II and Macintosh computers, Apple has tended NOT to be the first mover in a new market. MP3 players existed for years before the iPod, Tablet PCs existed for more than a decade before the iPad.
What Apple has been good at in the last decade is moving into a market where there is a clear demand for a product, but no winning design has yet emerged. Apple has been very good at putting together a compelling design where there were previously just vague ideas of what people wanted.
Their problem is that once they establish the paradigm, other companies tend to eventually beat them at their own game. Windows trumped the Mac. My Sansa Clip MP3 player is a better and cheaper MP3 player than anything Apple makes. They're currently getting beaten in the smartphone arena too, IMHO.