An interesting insight from the the innovator’s dilemma is that, it is not necessarily bad decision making by incumbent firms that cause them to lose out to entrants. Instead, it is the ability of entrants to react without cannibalizing existing markets that often give them the edge. Thus, even though political party strategists could benefit from picking up a copy of the book, history shows us that sometimes change is inevitable.
An interesting insight from the the innovator’s dilemma is that, it is not necessarily bad decision making by incumbent firms that cause them to lose out to entrants. Instead, it is the ability of entrants to react without cannibalizing existing markets that often give them the edge. Thus, even though political party strategists could benefit from picking up a copy of the book, history shows us that sometimes change is inevitable.
Imagine instead a world where syncing settings, credentials, bookmarks, shortcuts, rss feed subscriptions is as easy as connecting an application to a self-hosted server with a simple database attached. Offline and no third-parties involved. It is incredible that this is still an unsolved problem.
All that is needed for this to take of is that one of the major open source desktop environments integrates an open protocol where any application developer can add support for their applications independently. Before long, someone will offer a hosted service, completing the circle.
[...] authoritarian regimes, although displaying a façade of strength, are fragile in crisis. In conditions of relative stability, society is prepared to tolerate the lack of real elections. People are prepared to come to terms with this situation as an inevitable and habitual evil. But they will do so only until the country encounters a seri- ous challenge [...]