Disruptive Innovations

The iPhone seems to be one of the most well known disruptive innovations. It can do just about anything you want; from scanning your credit card to turning off you lights from hundreds of miles away while you aren't home. In the beginning, cell phones came in a bag you kept in your car. They eventually evolved into flip phones and then custom ringtones were the next big thing to come. Text messaging became the new fad, and camera phones came along too. The iPhone does all of these things and hundreds more. For years people have been buying Apple's iPod, but now the iPhone can hold your music for you. It also has a video camera, can make phone calls, send text messages, play games, and pay bills. The iPhone does it all. It is a disruptive innovation because it completely changed the cell phone market and mp3 player market. Now android has come along to compete with the iPhone and is have pretty good success but for a while iPhones dominated the cell phone market because of their capability to do anything imaginable.