Changing History of Technological Industry and Innovations in Smartphone Industry

This assignment explores the changing history of the technological industry and the difference between inventions from technological breakthroughs, major innovations and small/incremental innovations in the smartphone industry. It also covers the functional sources of innovations for the products of Motorola, IBM, BlackBerry and Apple and their demand pull, technological push model. The analysis of IBM to evaluate the company’s company innovations and commercialization on mobile devices is also included. Additionally, it explains how BlackBerry became the leading position of the mobile market before 2007 and why BlackBerry didn’t succeed in maintaining its position while Apple can easily replace IBM in producing smartphones. Lastly, 4Ps of innovation of BlackBerry and Apple are provided neatly.