What does is really mean?
Innovation = the act or process of inventing or introducing something new (encarta dictionary NA).
I will take an example of the famous Apple vs Samsung case. Does apple innovate? Does samsung innovate? Does samsung just copied Apple?
In my view, Apple does innovation here. Back when I was still waiting for a true smartphone back in 2003, i was frustrated in finding one because not even the mighty Nokia suits what I want in my smartphone. I was really considering to buy one of the N series of the Nokia. Back then I know what I want on a smartphone. A combination of features that is able to connect to internet. And no smartphone hardly satisfy that since 2003. Here comes 2007. Iphone was introduced and I said - that's what a smartphone should be the rest is history.
From that point we knew that that the first iPhone was the turning point of what we called smartphone as we know it today. That means they introduce something new that we never seen before in a grand scale.
Then here comes Samsung with Android in its pocket. They pick up where the first iphone is and immitate their success. So what is the line between innovations? If it is so close to what it is now, should you call it innovation? Or just copying.
In my opinion, Samsung and Android should have not done that blatant copying of the look and feel of the iPhone. Not that I am an Apple fan, but as an ordinary people who view intelectual property to protect what you have to protect.
It will not stop innovation on smartphone. There is still Bokia and Windows 8 out there that want to define their smartphone apart and have different personality as the iPhone.
One thing is true for Samsung. Whatever products that sells, they will enter into it - even it means copying and reverse engineering the existing product. Ride on. Is the motto?
As Apple cannot "become the developer of the world"
Though Apple was not the first to think of touch screen, but boy Apple was the first who sucessfully brought it to the mass and the multi touch gestures in smartphone, the first one.
Some of you will brand me as ifan or fanboy or whatever. But the thing here is- try to invent your own. Think what the cunsumer really wants and build from it. Let the consumer be your inspiration on R&D and not the reverse engineering technique nor the copying of whatever sells.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Where, Oh Where, is Such a House?
There was a woman named Kisa who was much devoted to the Tathagata (Buddha) and liked to sit at his feet to listen to his preaching. Kisa had given birth to a baby daughter not many months before. But, as fate would have it, the child had fallen ill, and now lay dead in her arms. Nearly mad with grief she came to Buddha carrying the baby, and weeping loudly she fell at his feet.
"Lord," she wailed, "you have divine power and can bring my daughter back to life. You are full of mercy and I know that you will honor my request. I am sure you have some remedy." Buddha looked down at her and his heart burned with her sadness and misery. "Bring me," he said slowly, "a handful of mustard seed; but it must come from a house where no one has lost a loved one."
Now Kisa, thinking this to be part of a charm that might restore her baby, wiped her tears and, full of hope, set off on her quest. From house to house she walked. At the door of every one she heard: "Alas, not here. We lost our grandfather here." "Last year my mother died." "A beloved cousin was staying with us and she fell to a fatal disease."
At last the light dawned upon Kisa that what had happened to her is what all beings are caught in, the ancient pair, life and death -- the chain of becoming, in which all are bound. She gave last rites to her child, and came back to her Master. She was ready now for "entering the stream", which means starting, with Buddha's guidance, on the Eight Step Path to Enlightenment.
"Lord," she wailed, "you have divine power and can bring my daughter back to life. You are full of mercy and I know that you will honor my request. I am sure you have some remedy." Buddha looked down at her and his heart burned with her sadness and misery. "Bring me," he said slowly, "a handful of mustard seed; but it must come from a house where no one has lost a loved one."
Now Kisa, thinking this to be part of a charm that might restore her baby, wiped her tears and, full of hope, set off on her quest. From house to house she walked. At the door of every one she heard: "Alas, not here. We lost our grandfather here." "Last year my mother died." "A beloved cousin was staying with us and she fell to a fatal disease."
At last the light dawned upon Kisa that what had happened to her is what all beings are caught in, the ancient pair, life and death -- the chain of becoming, in which all are bound. She gave last rites to her child, and came back to her Master. She was ready now for "entering the stream", which means starting, with Buddha's guidance, on the Eight Step Path to Enlightenment.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
YouTube profits
I just read an article about the Google acquisition of YouTube way back then for $1.65B. Now it generates an income of $1B annually.
To simplify it further: $1B per year is equivalent to generating an income of $31.71 per second. That is "per second". That is way more than the minimum federal salary of about $7 per hour.
No wonder why a lot of people want to do an internet startups like YouTube.
They call it 'cash cow'.
Will it be the case also for the Motorolla Mobility? That Google just recently succesfully acquired?
To simplify it further: $1B per year is equivalent to generating an income of $31.71 per second. That is "per second". That is way more than the minimum federal salary of about $7 per hour.
No wonder why a lot of people want to do an internet startups like YouTube.
They call it 'cash cow'.
Will it be the case also for the Motorolla Mobility? That Google just recently succesfully acquired?
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