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luisivan · 2013-09-25 03:34:19

I wouldn't call this innovation... it's cool, yeah, but let's stop using the word innovation for each cool feature created

icebraining | karma 48925 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2017-10-19 17:27:48+00:00

Right, but that's not an innovation.

aaomidi | karma 5622 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2024-03-30 18:14:51

I wouldn’t call this “innovation”.

swiley | karma 10155 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2021-08-28 11:54:42

That's not innovation.

verdverm | karma 6501 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2023-05-10 18:27:06

That's a brand thing, not innovation

amerika_blog | karma 492 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2013-08-22 12:41:19

Ah, the innovation of our age... isn't innovation after all.

cush | karma 1691 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2023-03-07 09:01:30

But it says it's innovative!

ryanmarsh | karma 4617 | avg karma 1.94 · | 2016-07-21 13:21:04+00:00

Innovation. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Seriously this is such an over used and hence watered down word. Every new thing isn't and innovation, novel maybe but not innovation.

The assembly line was an innovation. Ride sharing was an innovation. Pokémon go was a novel use of tech.

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Ididntdothis | karma 8212 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2020-06-05 19:16:58+00:00

i don't think the previous poster meant moving buttons around and changing icons as "innovation".

ulisesroche | karma 126 | avg karma 1.48 · | 2011-06-06 05:35:59

I don't think the word innovative should apply anymore to social networking games, to-do lists, or rounded corners.

matwood | karma 18013 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2015-12-23 14:29:58+00:00

So taking something no one either heard about or uses and making it useable is not innovation? Got it.

baby | karma 14476 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2021-07-06 17:46:55

I’m not sure how you’re getting to “not innovative”.

dbbk | karma 1825 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2017-10-31 17:30:07+00:00

I wouldn't class it as revolutionary either, but it /is/ innovative.

trilila | karma 250 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2019-08-06 17:26:03+00:00

Innovation doesn't equal inventing new stuff. I think it is quite innovative how they use an old mechanism for a new use case.

purplelobster | karma 895 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2012-12-21 20:58:04+00:00

We're talking about something as obvious as taking a photo and sending it to a friend in a streamlined fashion. If this counts as innovation here, I want no part in it. Taking a huge stream of data and figuring out what to show to who might be called an innovation, but this is not. Building the worlds best mapping service with street view is innovation, this is not.

632brick | karma 10 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2023-11-27 05:31:26

That's not very innovative of you. ;-)

costcofries | karma 326 | avg karma 3.54 · | 2022-09-28 15:45:22

I'm sure that's not their intent. What's notable though is how much innovation they are actually showing, that's rare imho.

haskaalo | karma 64 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2019-12-10 11:58:50

No. Innovative.

brundolf | karma 40865 | avg karma 9.15 · | 2020-10-28 04:25:40+00:00

You're confusing being innovative with being innovative in software.

sharpshadow | karma 1266 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2024-04-26 18:46:05

Innovation is not packaging existing technology in a new shell. That’s creative at most.