I’m writing this at the IE9 launch, which happened last Thursday, and this morning I had an epiphany. Don’t worry — I’m pretty sure my meds will kick in momentarily, but until they do, it strikes me that with all the focus on innovation and Apple, Apple doesn’t really innovate that much. What it does is focus and out-execute every company it competes with in most every product. One exception is Safari; Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Google regularly kick Apple’s butt. Let’s talk about the importance of execution against a product that competes well against Apple — IE — and one that is trending to be a failure: the HP TouchPad.
The same argument applies to facebook too. I think IE 9 could have the document viewing feature as http://bing.elookinto.com. But again, features may be not important at all these days.
I don't disagree with the author regarding his comments on execution. But the title is about Innovation (not mattering), which I was commenting on. Innovation certainly does matter. In fact, innovating products that people actually want or need is a most important thing for a technology company. Otherwise, why compete? Just sell what others make! Microsoft has a long history of not providing what people would rather have, just the basic applications that people need.
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Why Innovation Really Doesn't Matter
Posted by: Rob Enderle February 14, 2011 05:00 AMI’m writing this at the IE9 launch, which happened last Thursday, and this morning I had an epiphany. Don’t worry — I’m pretty sure my meds will kick in momentarily, but until they do, it strikes me that with all the focus on innovation and Apple, Apple doesn’t really innovate that much. What it does is focus and out-execute every company it competes with in most every product. One exception is Safari; Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Google regularly kick Apple’s butt. Let’s talk about the importance of execution against a product that competes well against Apple — IE — and one that is trending to be a failure: the HP TouchPad.