Saturday, January 18, 2014; 3:05:56 PM Eastern
Is Apple disruptive?
- Interesting discussion on Twitter with Matt Yglesias about whether Apple is disruptive. Here's what I learned.
- Every product is both disruptive and constructive.
- It disrupts someone's business model, and adds new art.
- Apple's products disrupted the media industry. And they also add new art. Going back to the early Macintosh, when Apple included networking, built-in, not as an option -- I understood they would make investments to create markets, not just ride on others' investments.
- So... I'd say on balance there's been more new art in Apple's efforts and less disruption. Actually when you think about it, successful companies are mostly constructive. ;-)
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