<story><title>Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.</title><url>http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spacemanaki</author><text>This was published in the New Yorker, and there was some discussion about it when PARC posted something on their blog responding to it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;An interesting letter was printed in a subsequent issue: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627mama_mail3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627m...&lt;/a&gt;
whose author wrote a longer blog post about this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that whole story a bit poignant, especially given that the MIT Scratch app (Smalltalk based programming for kids) was not allowed into the iPad app store.</text></comment>
<story><title>Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.</title><url>http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iqster</author><text>Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>