“Steve Jobs didn’t change the world every two years like clockwork, and he was incrementalism’s grand master,” Harry McCracken writes for TIME Magazine. “”Just how many times did Jobs rock the consumer electronics world with a product so innovative that it changed industries forever? In Apple’s first nine years, from 1976-1985, there were two of them: the Apple II and the Macintosh. Maybe three, if you count the LaserWriter laser printer.”
“Just about everybody, I suspect, will agree that the original iPod (2001), iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010) changed industries forever. The original iMac (1998) did, too; you could make the case that it was a triumph of packaging and marketing rather than technology, but its influence is still felt today,” McCracken writes. “Two Apple services also had impact of historic proportions: the iTunes Music Store (2003) and App Store (2008). Let’s add them to the list, too. By my standards, at least, we’ve now covered all of Apple’s seismic shifts that rattled the entire industry forever — the sort of stuff that hasn’t yet happened under Tim Cook’s stewardship.”
McCracken writes, “That’s a total of six industry-changing items, or one every 860 days on average, though the gap was sometimes substantially longer. Now, that’s a remarkable streak. But it’s not a revolution every other year. And Tim Cook has been CEO of Apple for only a little over two years, so there’s nothing deeply troubling about the fact that he hasn’t boiled any oceans yet.”
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MacDailyNews Take: What is this, Recycle MacDailyNews Takes Day?
As we’ve been saying repeatedly since last May:
iPhone was released 5 years, 7 months, and 19 days after iPod.
iPad was released 2 years, 9 months, and 5 days after iPhone.
Tim Cook has been Apple CEO for 2 years, 1 month, and 1 day.
Today is GREEN DAY!
Green because you recycle or green because of envy or green because you have gone moldy waiting for the next iPhone that will definitely be a paradigm shift of a phone.
But why would anyone want to boil an ocean?
To get to the bottom of it
Wake me up when September ends.
It’s almost over.
AMEN!
Some of the Anal-ists have their brain in their shoes!!
Hmmm…Piss Pot BLN again…..
“AppleInsider” News
Apple’s iOS 7 now on over 52 percent of devices one week after launch
The newest version of iOS is off to a roaring start, with iOS 7 now installed on more than half of the tens of millions of iPhones and iPads across North America, according to one study.
What a nitwit BLN is!
BLN is obnoxious now and will be much more so after his next conversion [to iOS 7].
What happened to BLN’s comment?
It disappeared after all the comments!!
Can you withdraw your comment after it is posted?
Yet another trip to the woodshed. A truly bad boy, is BLN
The Apple Store retail brick and mortar facilities, along with the Genius Bar should probably get a mention… Along with the first laptop – the Power Book – since it was the beginning of the move to mobile. I would also probably add the Newton, though Jobs killed it 🙂
Genius bar wasn’t new per se.
How about the first digital camera?
Hi, Steve,
hate to burst that bubble. The PowerBook (1991) was launched under Sculley.
And is that why you spewed shit and bigotry at him while he still was alive, you hypocrite?
I don’t remember him doing that.
I’m sure many readers here do, it was about a year before Steve died.
Above comment out of context….
Was initially a response to a BLN comment on Steve Jobs
Don’t kid yourself: the thinking behind the A7 and M7 is pretty revolutionary. In addition, the use of the speed of the A7 and the “fenced off area” implementing “TouchID” is a stroke of genius.
TouchID taught me that “security” doesn’t have to be a pain in the a**. If I hadn’t known about the “fenced off area” or if it was first done by anyone other then Apple, I would have had none of it. Apple has previously earned my trust. With their TouchID implementation, they have earned it once again.
To me, the most revolutionary thing Steve Jobs came up with was the idea that technology should be effortless and just work. Lots of DIY types who like to tinker under the hood might disagree with that philosophy. More power to them, but for the rest of us, Apple’s concepts of simplicity and elegance have been helping us get a lot of work done.
Well said
So true. I have to explain this concept to others everyday.
There was a time when “the mechanic” and “the driver” were one and the same: in 1901
Yep. Add to that that people should be shielded from the underlying technology. Why do you need to know DOS?
I remember being taught “DOS is the boss.”
Replying to get rid of that new post notification.
Not in the tech field but a few to remember:
Edwin Land of Polaroid
Oskar Barnack/Ernst Leitz of Leica
Charles and Ray Eames of the famous chair, among other things.
Kelly Johnson of Lockheed
Igor Sikorsky of helicopter fame
King Gillette of razors
Buckmister Fuller
Frank Lloyd Wright
Harly Earl, designer of the Corvette and many others.
Wow its like the rest of the World barely exists, sorry got to get back back to my dinosaur jaw bone now, though cant go before saying if Earl is in that list Alec Issigonis amongst others should be atop Mount Olympus.
Harry my boy, you forgot about the NeXT operating system and Pixar CGA films which were brought forth between his two tenures at Apple. Nope, everything he touched was turned to gold. Next you’ll be saying Bill Gates was the real innovator of the computer age.
Not so – such as the “cube” and the “antenna gate” that wasn’t really. SJ was awesome but to hold TC up to the false “perception” of perfection is wrong. TC is no SJ, but even SJ didn’t expect him to be.
The above was written in response to “everything he touched was turned to gold.”
Steve Jobs had the luxury of heading Apple but what he did not have is “extraordinary” vision of what the future of computers was. Alan Kay described the iPad and what you could do with it in 1972. I described the same thing in 1982.
The difference between Steve and me is Jobs headed Apple so he could put his vision into practice.
Tell it to Wall Street dingdong
Those apple-can-not-innovate-anymore-or-whatever people do not miss breakthroughs, just the great storyteller, one of the kind guy presenting them, when they are delivered every year (or every few months, if preferred).
Your point about story telling is a good one.
Steve had a rich narrative of “future think” motivated by an intense desire to improve the lot of all people, by making technological wonders accessible to all, not just special interest groups.
At every turn, he explained each new advance in simple terms, not specs; showed how ordinary people would benefit; and turned the spotlight on consumers, making them the heroes of this emerging fairy tale come true.
The mistake that Wall Street anal-ists make is believing that Apple should make products for those who ‘invest’ via stock purchases, i.e., fund managers. Apple makes products for those that are ‘invested’ in Apple through purchase and use of Apple products. By the way all the ‘-ists’ practice ‘TAO,’ Talking Out Ass. 🙂
EXACTLY!
Apple realizes that the customers are not the stockholders, the customers are the people who buy their products.
Look at Krispy Kreme. The stupid MBAs convinced them to “leverage their brand,” and sell cold, stale donuts at 7-11. Well, they were known for hot, fresh donuts. People who had heard how wonderful Krispy-Kreme donuts were saw some at 7-11, bought them, took one bite, and wondered wtf all the fuss was about. They never bought them again. Krispy-Kreme’s brand was leveraged right down the toilet, and the stock boys made lots of money.
That’s what the Wall Street assholes want for Apple. “Make a cheap iPhone…”
Does getting rid of Scott Forstall count? 😉
Steve Jobs was about making technology easy to use.
Even at that, one can see that it takes years to refine and advance a brand new product, like the iPhone from 2007 to where we are finally almost 7 years after its introduction, to get the near final refinements in place to allow widest possible use of a cell phone communication device.
Technology evolves. Apple just does it faster than most companies.