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Comment by tcarnell | Hacker News Reader

Another subjective list and a another misunderstanding of the word 'innovation'.

Where are Philips who are pioneering high efficiency LED lighting, or TomTom that gave us the first decent GPS for cars? or Ubuntu that gave the world its first decent free operating system? or eBay, still the leader in global re-cycling... and I'm sure there are loads of companies that make amazing scientific and medical innovations that I am unaware of.

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and Sony - because they just ARE an innovative company (the walkman/discman, betamax, minidisc, S/PDIF, bluray, professional broadcast and audio products.

Philips I've already mentioned, but companies like Toshiba give us lots of innovation with things like disc drives (I cant remember Starbucks ever developing a new type of fast, energy efficient storage media, although that did give us the 'mocha-choca-frappa-latte')

(although I am glad NOT to see Dyson on the list for producing excessively expensive vacuum cleaners with little or no perceivable benefit

or Intel (whose modern power saving CPU's are probably inside almost everyone laptops?

or Toyota for making practical hybrid cars

PS: Although I enjoy Google products, they haven't 'invented' a single one. Search engines? Email? not exactly a Google innovation.

or ARM for making the best processors to go into mobile devices with low energy consumption?

Or NASA for, well, especially 'Curiosity'

or Microsoft for the XBox 'Kinetic' system.

>Ubuntu that gave the world its first decent free operating system

lol what

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