Greg

“And that’s why the really exciting innovation lies in the crap”.

And I’m amazed in how much sense it actually makes.

Great article!
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- Greg

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The graphical user interface developed at PARC (which was the basis for the Mac and Windows) is an interesting case, because it shows what happens when you take a crappy innovation a and put it in a product with an existing customer base…usually nothing.

The GUI was of little utility to those who were using computers at the time. These were technical people who were already comfortable with the interface they had.

However, it was a huge innovation for people who weren’t comfortable using computers and helped spur on the revolution in personal computing.

Thanks for your comment.

- Greg

…think about what impresses us. Like Steve Jobs standing on a podium showing off his latest triumph: Incredible! Revolutionary! Mind Blowing!

…much more blown away when he demonstrated OS/X on a PC clone well before his Intel Macs appeared.

and amazed
( tho i’m still slow on the uptake of this and FreeBSD )
by OS/X86 appearing freely via Apple’s own engineers.

And now Apple’s over-taken MS in capitalisation. Viva!
and Viva! OpenSourceLibre Software.

This is a pyramid,- at the base is what you have to do just to stay in business. to out-perform your competitors, you need to reach the top … That’s where innovation is.”

that was a well-crappy metaphor she employed …

an English one uses the notion of Hygiene and says that to wash-its-hands -to make enough to break-even – one’s business must pay attention to all the implicit aspects & expectations that may be invisible or assumed by one’s customers, before one can approach being able to innovate in practice.
Once past that one must face down the ” So what – that’s what it does ” factor before being able to deploy innovation.

…crappy innovators and many of them became big successes by changing the basis of competition.

Here are some examples:

MP3 Players and Digital Cameras: When these technologies came out, they were expensive and performed poorly. It took a special breed of people to drop $1000 on a camera that took lousy pictures…

They were early jpegs – some of the compression artifacts were beaut –
and they did time-lapse and video- albeit in a never again heard-of MS Codec!

It was briefly worth the bucks to get a crappy device to kick-start innovation in acquiring n manipulating digital imagery..
As it had been to acquire early synths samplers and sequencers . .n then there was Hi-8 !

Dell Computer: :

Viva! for providing OS-free and/or Linux( Ubuntu) systems

Apple is a particularly revealing case because they don’t disrupt … they just get lots of people to buy Apple.

Yup.. even when completely free versions of equivalent systems and softwares exist, and while Apple make no secret of the OpenBSD background of their systems
& free OpenOS/X86 is available. ..
Genius !
VIVA ! indeed.

But then again both Apple n MS got up on borrowed( crappy ? ) innovations. .
Respectively . .the original Xerox-Parc WIMP stuff

and the original PC O/S for x86 that Gates licensed n then wrote QBasic on top of . .

hopefully someone’ll soon dream up another ( less crappy ? ) metaphor for our digital interactions…and that”ll be FreeSoftware.. and the proper substrate for using technology and innovation to create ( and conserve ) value..

@Ken -yup nice Ford quote..

@Maverickmark- yes ever-playful Einstein.. ( lucky he didn’t need to care about PR !)
changing axes… of user digital interfaces and interaction .. would be fun.
QMech and Strings’ll turn out to be ( more or less ) crappy/ inadequate approximations in the light of whatever shift comes next…. meanwhile chuck it all in the compost pot

@Spiro- they’re the Ruby on Rails lot ..?

Best Regards..

Screenshots of my Gnome desktop work in progress

I like it! Thx.

- Greg