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Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

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Re: Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

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Post by philwelch »

hahainternet wrote: post #26
bane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd write it up this way: Tim Cook is a remarkable individual, but he's not exactly the fountain of creative ideas that Jobs was (how original those ideas were is an ongoing debate, but nevertheless). I think it's a remarkably introspective move, recognizing weakness and moving to rectify it. Put another way it's much better than the "strategy" of suing everybody who uses fruit or 4 sided shapes in their products as…

Forgive me if this is pointless cynicism but fountain of creative ideas ? * A music player * A phone * A portable computer Not exactly the most innovative product categories?

Do you remember what phones were like six years ago?

Re: Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

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Post by jfoutz »

hahainternet wrote: post #26
bane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd write it up this way: Tim Cook is a remarkable individual, but he's not exactly the fountain of creative ideas that Jobs was (how original those ideas were is an ongoing debate, but nevertheless). I think it's a remarkably introspective move, recognizing weakness and moving to rectify it. Put another way it's much better than the "strategy" of suing everybody who uses fruit or 4 sided shapes in their products as…

Forgive me if this is pointless cynicism but fountain of creative ideas ? * A music player * A phone * A portable computer Not exactly the most innovative product categories?

Apple 2? Macintosh? Powerbook? Newton?

Didn't that laser printer and the Apple software that became Adobe pretty much create "desktop publishing"?

I've heard a few people talk about hypercard being neat at the time.

Yeah, they did some stuff lately, whatever. But you really have no appreciation for how cool woz's disk drive was? That was pretty amazing.

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Post by aik »

hahainternet wrote: post #26
bane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd write it up this way: Tim Cook is a remarkable individual, but he's not exactly the fountain of creative ideas that Jobs was (how original those ideas were is an ongoing debate, but nevertheless). I think it's a remarkably introspective move, recognizing weakness and moving to rectify it. Put another way it's much better than the "strategy" of suing everybody who uses fruit or 4 sided shapes in their products as…

Forgive me if this is pointless cynicism but fountain of creative ideas ? * A music player * A phone * A portable computer Not exactly the most innovative product categories?

A horse [and buggy] and a car are in the same product category as well.

Point: Everything can be generalized to the point of it seeming mundane.

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