The Innovator’s Dilemma is a powerful framework for understand the world, but it doesn’t apply to everything, especially Apple.
What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong
Clayton Christensen continually predicts that Apple will be disrupted because his theory does not incorporate the importance of the user experience.
Apple and the Innovator’s Dilemma
This paper was originally written in 2010 for a Corporate Innovation class at Kellogg Business School, and thus predates Stratechery by several years.
The End of Trickle-Down Technology
Reaching developing markets depends on understanding that consumers with a small budget are very different from consumers who aren’t interested in spending much.