But they missed the point, it wasn't genius that created the skyscraper in the first place. If they had started Apple two years earlier or later it wouldn't have worked. Same with the Mac. It needed the Apple II cash cow to have a chance. It also needed IBM to fail to understand how much memory people needed.
Timing is everything.
Genius doesn't make your economics go boom. Timing, luck, and changes in technological directions that are missed by your competitors. Once you become a big company, it's a struggle to look outside, but in the technology business you must, or you will miss the change when it comes. Platforms die slowly Last year Apple wasn't a leader, yet they played the game as if they were. People said the net is the computer and they were right.