Buttry at son Joe's wedding rehearsal
That moment of silence for my iPhone was not mourning. I was just stunned. The sobbing, that was mourning.
For three years now, since the first iPhones came out, Apple’s mobile meth has been at the heart of my innovation pitch.
At the first Newspaper Next symposium in February 2006, Harvard scholar Clayton Christensen used phones as an example in explaining disruptive innovation. I understood instantly. At an intellectual level, I understood Christensen’s story of how Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone disrupted Western Union and the telegraph business. At a personal level, I understood deeply Christensen’s story of how the original mobile phones – though barely good enough by such standard measures as reliability, audio quality, battery endurance and size – changed communication forever because they offered mobility. (more…)
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