must. have. nano.

It’s amazing to me how Apple continues to innovate. They obviously have read The Innovator’s Dilemma because they aren’t afraid to just blow away a highly successful product line and replace it with a new one. The iPod minis are now gone and replaced with the iPod nanos, which are like a hybrid of the shuffle (because it can be worn on a lanyard and it uses solely flash memory), the mini (in terms of capacity), and the Photo, since it displays digital pics.

Coolest innovation: a lanyard that is also the headphones.

What’s next: Mac nano?

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Published:: 9.8.05 / 2am

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Craig 9.8.05 / 8pm

Where’s the innovation? They’re taking bits people like out of their other products and squishing it into one unit to reach a prce point. How is this innovative? Innovation is offering new functionality, not repackaging existing stuff.
Luis de la Rosa 9.8.05 / 10pm

Recombining multiple products into one new form factor is definitely innovation. It’s not like they just duct taped them together or something. Plus I’ve never seen lanyard headphones before.

The key point is still that they’re willing to sacrifice their current lines for completely new ones.

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My name is Luis de la Rosa and I am an iPhone Consultant helping companies make iPhone apps.

I also develop my own Mac OS X and iPhone apps via my company Happy Apps. The first of these apps is WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager for Mac OS X which lets you tag your bookmarks and synchronizes with del.icio.us.

I have been making iPhone applications for clients the past year through my company Happy Apps LLC. Through Happy Apps, I have also been developing Mac OS X apps and Ruby Rails apps for the past 3 1/2 years. For over 14 years, I’ve been developing commercial and in-house applications in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Objective-C.

I like to share what I’ve learned either from hands-on development or the latest books I’ve read. I used to do it in person when I worked in a cubicle but now I get to share it with everyone via my blog. I don’t really miss the cube. :)

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