“Steve Jobs didn’t invent anything! Not the Mac. Not the iPod. Not the Next cube. So says tech-industry pundit Mark Anderson, CEO of Strategic News Service, as part of his strategic predictions for 2012,” Bob Evans writes for Forbes.
“Let me help you wrap your willing suspension of disbelief around this: if you thought Steve Jobs invented the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod, iTunes, the iPad, and various other profoundly successful and influential products, you’d be wrong,” Evans writes. “Because, you see, Jobs didn’t ‘invent’ them; no, he merely ‘integrated’ them.”
Evans writes, “I think where Anderson is way off in his comment on Jobs as non-inventor is that it doesn’t have to be an either/or situation—in fact, I’d argue that the most-successful companies going forward will be those that continue to invent while they also pursue breakthrough approaches to integration.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]