[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[John Levine]

It appears that Clem Cole via Internet-history <clemc at ccc.com> said:
>Christinsen's book explains it.  To successfully disrupt, you have to find a
>new  (and rapidly growing) user base that values the new technology AND is
>willing to accept its downsides at the beginning. ...

Before you take "Innovator's Dilemma" as gospel, read Jill Lepore's
rather devastating analysis. His analysis of the disk drive business
was just wrong if you look at what happened after 1989, and his other
examples don't fare too much better. IBM, which invented the disk
drive in the 1950s, continued to compete successfully until they sold
the product line to Hitachi in 2002.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

While it is true that a cheaper and worse technology can evolve to be
cheaper and better, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with whether
the companies doing it live or die.

R's,
John