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0 pointsfckgw2y ago0 comments

This is very reductive of the impact the iPod and iPhone had on the market. Every product has little bits and pieces of other products in it's DNA but to say the something like the iPhone didn't create the Smartphone market just because the Blackberry or the Sidekick existed is a little silly.

Even the iPad, which has clear lineage decades back to the horrible Windows XP tablets, create a whole new market category out of thin air.

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jldugger2y ago

I'm not saying these are not great products, or that they didn't raise the bar. I'm saying they all launched with directly comparable competitors, and everyone knew what it was supposed to do. In popular imagination, the iPhone was supposed to make calls, send text messages, take pictures, and play music. A cameraphone, iPod and BlackBerry. The fact that I can make such an equation should be a hint that we're not talking blue ocean.

> Even the iPad, which has clear lineage decades back to the horrible Windows XP tablets

And maybe even the Newton. That was a better example of "blue ocean" product strategy.

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