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[I7guy]

Eh?

The product is a smartphone, there is absolutely nothing disruptive about it whatsoever. The things you listed are just features of the phone. Facial recognition (regardless of how it was implemented) isn't new either.

That’s not how innovation works, which is what the op started with.
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Disruptive means that it creates a completely new kind of business - disrupting existing business.
Like Apple II, iPod, iPhone, Newton did. FaceID while great technology is only replacing TouchID without functional enhancement (as of yet) - so it wouldn't be my example of disruptive.
A better example woud be a TouchMac: combining and cannibalizing current Mac and iPad. That would require real courage - which the Board clearly considers a step too far.
So it leaves the innovation opportunity to Microsoft with SurfacePro and will respond as soon as that becomes successful. Same with Samsung and inductive charging

Ok we fundamentally disagree on basic definitions.

 

[Rob_2811]

That’s not how innovation works, which is what the op started with.
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Ok we fundamentally disagree on basic definitions.

Ok. Innovation maybe but changing a feature on a the latest version of a product line that is a decade old certainly isn't disruptive.

 

[Bacillus]

Ok we fundamentally disagree on basic definitions.

This is what Harvard has to say about a "loose" interpretation of disruptive, like yours:
https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

 

[I7guy]

This is what Harvard has to say about a "loose" interpretation of disruptive, like yours:
https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

Here is a practical example of disruptive innovation: google killed the encyclopedia industry.

 

[Bacillus]

Here is a practical example of disruptive innovation: google killed the encyclopedia industry.

I guess you're right (Google+Wikipedia) - the encyclopedia as a business got destroyed.
(miraculously, some still exist)