@theproff00
"It seems like all three are practicing disruptive strategies.
Sony with Blu Ray
Xbox with Live!"
A typical argument...
”It is quite simple. Digital distribution has no future because market research shows that people want to buy things on disk. Blu-Ray and its HD movies are so much data that they cannot be put on digital distribution… at least not for a long time. Therefore, the success of Blu-Ray means digital distribution is defeated, at least for a decade. Sony is a genius.”
Sorry, but you get an F.
”What! Why!?”
Disruption relies on certain rules which you violated. One, market research never reveals disruption until it is too late. One cannot analyze markets if they do not exist yet. Also, Blu-Ray can never ‘defeat’ a disruptor. The only thing that can ‘defeat’ a disruptor would be another disruptor. Blu-Ray is a ‘sustaining’ advance. It is better than DVD in many ways. But since it is just ‘sustaining’ and never ‘disruptive’, it cannot stop a disruptor simply because it is ‘better’.
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
