Innovation: Tesla Pi Phone vs Apple iPhone.

Will the Tesla Pi Phone be superior to Apple’s iPhone? Elon Musk has compared the Tesla to the iPhone in the past so why not take it a step further and have a competing phone? Apple disrupted the smart phone market when it introduced the iPhone in 2007. Will Tesla do the same with the Pi Phone?

Innovation is All Around Us

Innovation Quotes

“Everybody around here has slides in their lobbies. I’m actually wondering about putting in a roller coaster — like a functional roller coaster at the factory in Fremont. You’d get in, and it would take you around [the] factory but also up and down. Who else has a roller coaster? … It would probably be really expensive, but I like the idea of it.” ~Elon Musk
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~Steve Jobs, co-founder Apple
“Will the Tesla Pi Phone disrupt the smart phone market the same way Steve Jobs did when he introduced the iPhone in 2007?” ~Dave Waters
“Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.”~ Clayton M. Christensen
“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.” ~ Harvey Firestone
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.” ~ Thomas Edison.
“An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he’s in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” ~ Charles Kettering