“Ever since [Tim] Cook took over from the late co-founder Steve Jobs a little more than a year ago, it’s de rigueur to suggest the world’s most successful tech company just can’t be the same any more,” Adam Banks writes for BBC News. “Yet the facts disagree.”
“Writing on this site on Tuesday, Dan Lyons, a Newsweek journalist and former author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, felt the iPhone 5’s incremental improvements could only be a let-down,” Banks writes. “‘Word is it will look a lot like the last two versions of the iPhone,’ he wrote. ‘Except a bit thinner and a bit taller, with upgraded guts and a refreshed operating system. If that’s correct, I imagine Steve is not happy.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Newsweek journalist. Now there’s an oxymoron. Drop the “oxy” and there you have Lyons.
Banks writes, “Well, that’s exactly what the iPhone 5 turned out to be. And if Lyons (like the rest of us) had a pretty good idea about that well in advance, why does he think Jobs didn’t? Apple isn’t a company that flails around for new ideas and rushes them to market. It conceives products before the technology exists to make them. Then it refines them for as long as it takes to get them right.”
“The iPad, for example, was based on an idea dating back to 1968, and in prototype by 2002, but didn’t appear until 2010. In short, if Jobs had been disappointed with Apple’s plans for September 2012, he’d have had plenty of chance to change them before he bowed out of the company a year earlier,” Banks writes. “But what he understood, and Lyons seems to miss, is that innovation doesn’t always mean radical change.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We want to highlight an important part of what Banks writes with which we agree wholeheartedly:
The iPhone hasn’t departed radically from its original format. Nor have any of the other smartphones that followed it. Why should they? The clamshell laptop was patented more than 30 years ago by the British industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who died this week – and we’re still using clamshell laptops. Maybe that means every laptop manufacturer “ran out of ideas” in 1982. Or maybe it’s a good idea that we’re sticking with because it works – just like the touchscreen phone that Apple invented in 2007.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Crabapple” for the heads up.]
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nice. So many trolls on this one you completely wiped the comments. It would be nice if you could just ban IP addys from Grupta and Pat now.
If anyone sees those guys please just ignore them and don’t respond. They’ve hughjacked and ruined entire threads. BLN is really all we need as far as trolls
BLN is not a troll. He’s just misunderstood.
How cute to accuse so many of trolling when its a common accusation all over the net.
Still has Apple really innovated with the iP5, internally sure, they are wizards at cramming stuff into small cases, but why do they think we need a “thin” phone, when it’s NOT the thinnest smartphone on the market (they live in their own super high distortion field).
Its pix density is the same, the screen is taller and they finally added OLED technology, wow other phones have been doing that for a couple of years. Now the new display technology is new which is pretty cool. But it was leaked all over the place and I have read the excuses from other fellow Apple users that this was in design before Tim took over. BS on that one, Tim stated he was doubling down on secrecy and he FAILED, he did and you know it. When your most anticipated product has its design, internals and every aspect gets more leaks than the Titanic you have a problem.
Still I do agree without a doubt it will sell like crazy and I will definitely have my pre-order in tomorrow. You see I can be an Apple user/fan yet see the real world at the same time.
Yeah, but you look at the world through shit colored glasses. Sucks to be you troll.