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tbrownawlast Monday at 1:22 PM1 replyview on HN

> didn't innovate. They just made it work really, really well.

I thought that was the difference between "invention" and "innovation"?


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wccrawfordlast Monday at 3:34 PM

"make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products." according to Oxford.

It's a stretch to me to think that "make it work reliably" is a new idea, and their products and methods were all already done by others, but less reliably.