What makes a product revolutionary?
My definition of revolutionary is a product that changes the way people behave/work. That is really hard to do. I think the iPod is one product that was revolutionary. That humble and rather modestly priced product changed an industry and it changed how people listen to music. Record stores closed, record labels revenues declined, and the world changed. People look for something unique, boldly new, a first never done before to define a revolutionary product. The first time a product goes wireless as an example. Yet first time technologies rarely change the way people behave and work. They are indeed radical bold first steps, but rarely successful products. —There were numerous portable digital music players when the iPod was introduced— The Creative Nomad Jukebox predates the iPod. In fact, Apple was sued and had to pay Creative for use of its intellectual property in the iPod. What was absolutely brilliant about the iPod product was not the introduction of any really new technolog
