The PC industry is working just fine, and a Mac and PC are more similar than they are different.
The music industry has hardly changed due to the iPod, you sell one way you sell another - that's not disruption.
And the phone industry most certainly did not change, it's just an incremental improvement on the fancy phones that have been getting steadily better. The iPhone may be great, but fundamentally it's just a better version of what was already there.
His business was taking an idea and perfecting it so people liked and used it. But it was not disruption.
But I'd say iTunes (music store) was disruptive. It changed how the music industry operated.
The iphone changed how we 'use' phones more than it changed the 'phone industry'. In fact, on writing that, I think that captures what Apple does best, it 'disrupts' how people perceive and use a product, that may in-turn distrupt an industry, but that is a consequence, not the goal (for Apple).
I see the iPhone as popularizing the smartphone concept, but not fundamentally disrupting the concept of phones and their usage. Palm I think was the real disruptor there, but Apple perfected it.
The PC industry is working just fine, and a Mac and PC are more similar than they are different.
The music industry has hardly changed due to the iPod, you sell one way you sell another - that's not disruption.
And the phone industry most certainly did not change, it's just an incremental improvement on the fancy phones that have been getting steadily better. The iPhone may be great, but fundamentally it's just a better version of what was already there.
His business was taking an idea and perfecting it so people liked and used it. But it was not disruption.