Well you see these guys (Media and research agencies) Play with Statistics you convince you. You can give me any data and tell me in what favor I need to give my inferences and I will get it out of the same data.
So I wont suggest to go with this conclusive analysis, rather look at the raw data and make your own sense.
Something about Marketing: You see one really cant compare A company with B company if their market and their strategies are different. Yes, they do intersect at some point and we need to see who wins at the intersection.
Example:
Apple is into: Computer + phone + mobile OS + Computer OS etc.
Apple V/s Android:
When you compare Android with Apple: Compare iOS: And you will see that iOS is targeted to only a specific segment of society. Wherein Android is like a mass product. The reason Android is having higher market share is because in the third world country it is available as cheap as: 70$ V/s Apple (Iphone C) at 550$ (Both not on contract).
(Note: Android wont disrupt apple. These industry maturing will. With players having expertise in different domain come together to create final product. (Reference: Product interface) )
Apple V/s Samsung:
Same story as above: Samsung is spurred across the segment (mass product) and hence claims to be having higher market share. Which is right. It might be more profitable.
Its like: Class / Higher Profits V/s Mass / Scale = Apple V/s Samsung
(Note: Look at it from a business perspective not user, and we see Samsung is a better model given current stage of market)
But here is an important learning: "Elephants Cant Dance" You see Apple is now a BIG established Brand. They have Brand equity (Reason they can charge higher prices). Their Market segment is fix and they cant afford t dance / change now, to say Mass / Scale. It will hurt current market (Existing customer) sentiment. Though iPhone 5C was an attempt to try and gravitate towards Lower end market.
Back to Clayton theory:
1. He talks about theory as Lenses. Which doesn't necessarily indicate that what you see through that lenses is right or wrong. You are free to choose some other lenses as you deem fit.
Looking through the lens of disruptive innovation: I will side him. Even though Customers dont really see these trends they do affect businesses and eventually customers are convinced to align with the change in market.
Grooveshark is good 'more so' for playing the music you have already discovered. I personally like 8 Tracks model, Its one of the best platform to discover new music.
It doesnt encourage piracy and at the same time lets us get some good free music. Its spot on solution.
It also takes care of piracy really well. Its a radio, so there are limitation on you going back and front, at the same time you can listen to the playlist as many times as you want.
User upload their own music: Which means no piracy: You have your paid content you are just broadcasting to larger audience. Like having your own radio station.
Excellent question.
I would answer this question from system perspective. What are the challenges faced by existing online learning solution.
There are problems with the learners itself and there are problems with existing solutions.
Problem with learner:
1. Not being self Regulation
Existing Solution problems:
2. Different mental make up of user but similar intervention for all.
3. Challenges in Learning interventions discovery
Lets go in detail:
1. Regulation results into failure of self discipline. We are conditioned to be externally regulated and not internally. Our current system have conditioned that there would be someone who will tell them what to do. Be our school system or our parents. They will prevent us from doing something wrong or tell us what is the right thing to do. What we need is to make students feel they are responsible for their own decision and action. When you feel responsible for your action, you take things seriously. You get self disciplined. (Learned partially from: Paul Kim)(Reports on not using system regularly or in a disciplined way)
2. Different mental make up. We all are wired differently, but the courses offered are from one perspective in one way only. Every learner has a different level of understanding, learning gaps, misconception and learning style (MI theory by howard garnder) But courses today treats them same way. There might be a student struggling to learn compare fractions because he doesnt understand LCM. System needs to first dissect a learner to understand what he needs to learn and how he learns best and then offer the most effective learning intervention. That brings me to the last point.
3. Learning intervention: How do we find the right intervention for the student. There are lots of learning content online. Lots of curated content also available. But finding the content that suits me is a painstaking process. I have to keep trying till I find the right content.
I hope you guys find this useful.
You can reach me at @aakashbarot if I can be of any help further.
It can't be disappointing, I am sure it would be interesting. We will need data of all the applications V/S the selected ones.