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invetedlotus123 on 22 June 2015
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Ruler said:
invetedlotus123 said:


Apple did revolutionize with the first iPhone, and than with the iPad, they`re products arent innovative anymore but they still at least great compared to other models. The iPod wasn`t the first mp3 player, but was the best of them at the time, and they made iTunes, wich was a revolution in how to buy music. The iPhone may have not been the first smartphone, but was the first good and accessible ( in a point of usability) for the great public. Look like how phone designs were 2 years before and 2 years after, and look at the post-pc revolution that followed.

Nokia mistake was, like every other phone maker at the time, to ignore the iPhone and not responding properly when there was still time.

For nintendo, they made a huge comeback with the Wii after two failures in home consoles, and made the DS, wich went to be the best selling handheld of all time. They still can get it right,  if they just stop trying to make a revolution and just a really good console with really good games from first-party and specs that making porting easier to get third-parties, it will do just great, may not dominante, but won`t bleed money.

 

For the comment that there needs to be US consoles and products for US publics, it just no the case. The best selling console of all time is ps2, and there were the xbox already at the time. They buy loads of cars made from eastern automakers, the second biggest phone seller is korean, the best selling console today is japanese, the best selling last gen was also japanese, best selling tv brands are eastern and go on...

And most used search engine is american and so are every OS and major website now, same with cpu and gpu powering these asian devices. 

- where was apple innovatve at the time? they forced you to use itunes to put music on their devices instead just copy and past them like every mp3 did. I think even today thats how itunes works. And that itunes is a recource hock.

About iPod and iTunes, yes, it was a tie in software and hardware, but it also made the music library get really organizade whitout users having to make folders manually, and it was really nice at the time. The iPod compared to other mp3 players were intuitive, beatiful, easy to use, durable, and was backed by the iTunes store, that was a revolution on its own. Apple sense of usability is unparalled, and it took quite some time for Android catch-up ios ( even if today I stick with Android phones ). Also applies for macs and iPads, may not have been the first on their categories, but were the best and first to make it appealing to the average person that doesn't want to tinker on command lines, just to use the product as they want.

 

And for Nintendo, because this a Nintendo thread, not an apple thread and just used their example that is possible for a fallen company to comeback. They still can make it, they've found the point with Wii and ds. While they took the evolutionary route with 3ds and are doing just fine there and took the revolutionary route with the Wii u and flopped. 

 

And for major websites and all being western, well, this is somehow true looking for the WW picture, but there are chinese services that even so they are china only, they are so big there they bite a significant share of the global market.