Jean-Louis Gassée on Very Personal Computing:
One of my colleagues, Bob Ackerman, calls smartphones the very personal computers. Measured by size and potential, they’re both smaller and bigger than today’s PCs.
I really like this new classification for smartphone market and beyond. It breaks the mental model of mobile phones as PC accessories and allows a more clear outlook of where things are about to go.
The personal computer has reached the S-Curve’s shoulder while very personal computers are still at the S-Curve’s knee, poised for the type of growth the PC has enjoyed over the past 30 years:
I’ve been fascinated by tech S-curves ever since I read The Innovator’s Dilemma, so I can’t pass a change to include it.
If you go down the list of disruptive technologies, it’s amazing how fast a company - or even a whole industry -can go from being cutting-edge to commoditized dinosaurs.
