| ▲ | wewewedxfgdf 3 days ago | |
There's always a trail of competitors who almost got the magic formula right, but for some feature or luck or timing or money or something. The giant win comes from many stars aligning. Luck is a factor - it's not everything but it plays a role - luck is the description of when everything fell into place at just the right time on top of hard work and cleverness and preparedness. Google Search <-- AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo Facebook <-- MySpace, Friendster iPod <-- MP3 players (Rio, Creative) iPhone <-- BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile Minecraft <-- Infiniminer Amazon Web Services <-- traditional hosting Windows (<-- Mac OS (1984), Xerox PARC Android <-- Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm YouTube <-- Vimeo, DailyMotion Zoom <-- WebEx, Skype, GoToMeeting | ||
| ▲ | awesome_dude 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
Before iPods and iPhones, people thought that those spaces were "solved" and there was no room for "innovation" mp3 players were commodity items, you could buy one for a couple of dollars, fill it up with your favourite music format (stolen) and off you went. Phones too - Crackberry was the epitome of sophistication, and technological excellence. Jobs/Apple didn't create anything "new" in those spheres, instead he added desireability, fancy UX that caught peoples' attentions | ||