yep, that was it. I was thinking about this...I think last night. I think probably what Apple does is phase shifting, not innovation. I think they likely come in late in the early adopter curve, but I think they have the pull to largely determine that curve. Like, as long as the market is truly out of the innovation phase, when Apple comes in, that pushed the market into early majority. Now, I don't think this is just Apple's pull. I think Apple does the market research and fine tunes enough to get a product they think can push it over the hump.

In hindsight, one thing that makes Google Glass so interesting is that it was borderline off the chart in front. The other thing that makes it interesting is Google's long-standing history of just closing down projects. I really don't see how they get enough R&D out of all those closed down projects to keep doing it. Maybe they finally learned their lesson about open sourcing stuff, but then again, I still don't think they have given Istio to CNCF...or is it a different project. Anyway, I still think there are some internal struggles at Google. Not that I have any deep insight. I'm not involved deeply in any open source project, but as you no doubt know, on the surface of many. That's my take from what I've seen, anyway.

What is interesting about MSFT here is that they seem to give zero fucks about mass adoption. It's a strategy I don't understand at all considering the XBox, but I do understand considering their general Enterprise play.

chart for reference: https://nu.federati.net/url/279505