AI & Enterprise
Any computing platform declines 5 years after peaking - Jobs version of Innovator\'s Dilemma
A book on Steve Jobs’ 12 years after leaving Apple describes his view that computer platforms peak and then decline as software ecosystems become a constraint. It echoes ideas associated with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma, though it is unclear whether Christensen influenced Jobs. The book quotes Jobs warning that app libraries become a trap that makes architectural change difficult, and says his pursuit of perfection at NeXT led to delays, pricing problems and an eventual exit from hardware.
