Apple: 'Just Ahead of the Times'

Not much new in The Economist's cover profile of Apple, but they do hit the nail on the head in characterizing Jobsland as a place where innovation is prized but invention is regarded with suspicion.

Invention entails lots of navel-gazing and high probabilities of fruitless toil. Innovation means using your design expertise and customer insight to make a truly useful version of something the inventor probably hopelessly screwed up in execution.

Apple is, in short, an orchestrator and integrator of technologies, unafraid to bring in ideas from outside but always adding its own twists.

Lessons from Apple [The Economist]