[ekanes]

If you're interested in this, you should check out The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. He walks you through how large companies (most of his examples are from the hard drive industry) are often structurally incapable of embracing the revolutionary change which will inevitably overtake them.

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin... (not an affiliate link)

[gamble]

Seconded. The Innovator's Dilemma is a classic, and remarkably free of the usual business press BS.

It's particularly interesting today, as we're waiting to see who will survive the transition to SSD. Five years ago, who would have thought Intel would be king of the hill?

[jimbokun]

They must have read that book.

[michael_nielsen]

I've heard that Andy Grove is a huge fan of the book. Forbes had a cover with Grove and Christensen and the sentence: "Andy Grove’s big thinker: Clayton Christensen tells how to survive disruptive technologies"

[Daniel_Newby]

If you count embedded SSD, Apple and Samsung share the throne.

[dagw]

When did apple start designing and manufacturing SSDs?

[Daniel_Newby]

Embedded SSDs. The iPhone and flash iPods have an internal SSD.