Ok, I am not read the full article, I cant say the Dr. R. Keith Sawyer make a good explanation of his point, but I can say you take this to much personal, and in some aspect is true Linux is not too much innovati, the most big part is only a copy of other, at least from my point of view innovation is the modification of a concept and create new, and sorry but linux is the same, the iphone is a new concept phone with touch screen, and GUI was introduce by xerox .

Ok, I hope not make you angry with my comment. I think is good have another points of view and never take something personal, alwasy is better see the two side.

And foer end, sorry my poor english.

Ron
Keith Sawyer had the so-called ‘disrupting innovation’ in mind, which is the (say) strong interpretation of innovation. This interpretation was conceived by someone whose name I don’t recall now.
An example of that kind of innovation is given by the complete (and fast) replacement of the Betamax tape recorders by those which had a slanted R/W head, thus allowing a greater recording density per unit of tape length. This happened some 30 years ago, I guess.
Not everyone agrees with calling ‘innovation’ only the disrupting subspecies of it, but we can live with it. The meadow of innovation is full of multi-coloured flowers.
Cheers!

I hate to get embroiled with so loose a term as “innovative” but I noticed that Hector (perhaps from youth) punished poor Sony, yet again and quite incorrectly, for Betamax.

Betamax and JVC’s VHS differed really only in the tape LOAD system. “U” wrap – Sony – and “M” (or “W”) wrap JVC. Betamaxes U-wrap put far less load on the tape and hence less breakage and “crinkle”, it was easier to repair (a load “Ring” instead of mechanical funny fingers pulling tape) and it loaded more reliably.

The far more “innovative” (so much for innovation) Betamax lost out because Sony was caught tooth and nail (for some reason not quite clear it was Sony alone) with a battle with the MPAA about whether one could even tape TV shows. VHS quietly collected the market share and shared licensing and the tape rental market while the far superior Betamax hung on for years in the professional market.

That’s probably the real moral; “Great ideas are 10 cents a bushel in 10 bushel lots and it’s marketing, marketing, maketing makes the world go round.” Oh yeah, and not having the MPAA riding your butt.

“I also believe that that the VHS systems were less expensive as well.” That was the ULTIMATE irony. Inherently Beta was actually cheaper – a lot of other things being equal – but because JVC licensed VHS completely to all comers and Sony because of the attacks on all fronts went Beta all alone. The competition in VHS drove the prices down quickly while Beta stayed Sony for a rapidly shrinking market share. Beta could not, for instance, generate the huge volume of tape production needed to reduce the prices.

IBM could only get a tiny piece of it’s own “PC standard” market. Way back when there was the “Quadraphonic” fiasco which totally proved that markets are miserable at creating standards. Markets need innovation AND standards. I tremble at TV going digital, X generation DVDs, etc. REAL innovation is often orphaned.

I was listening up ’till here: “Everyone knows that the only REAL people who deserve Dr. in front of their names are those who have completed medical school” then I just went, “oh gotch yer knickers in a twist rant”

Keith Sawyer is a “left”-wing corporate shill. He’s no better than the reich-wing neocon corporate shills. Just shows how the left and right are bought off by the big corporate tyrants.